"Are organizations better off building BI solutions when they need them and as quickly as they need them ... without a standardized and integrated DW?"
-- Larissa T. Moss, Guest Editor
Here we go again with another virtual solution! It didn't work for data warehousing -- what makes us think it will work for BI? We still have to address the data chaos in our organizations. BI without a DW won't get us there, but BI with a DW will.
This issue focuses on the management of the agile enterprise and on understanding how organizations can facilitate and foster agile practices through investments in IT infrastructure and technology practices. As such, the survey our contributors crafted tackles issues of strategy, relative positioning and competition, as well as technology infrastructure, software development methodologies, and IT architecture.
"Even though they (and we) may not know it, all organizations already have an embryonic business architecture in place. But today’s problems require a more formal business architecture to connect the business with the technologies it increasingly depends on."
-- Ken Orr, Guest Editor
Mashups are one candidate gaining increasing attention. It is therefore a perfect time for us to produce an issue on this topic to provide you, our readers, with the conceptual framework, the vocabulary, and an overview of the issues surrounding this emerging approach to enterprise business and data integration.
This issue of CBR is on crafting better business cases. Our intent is to evaluate how the organizations in our base of respondents make business cases today; to benchmark the success (or lack thereof); and to provide tangible guidance on improving the quality of your arguments and the odds of receiving approval for the projects that you propose.
