Business Intelligence Consulting
In business intelligence consulting, a representative (consultant)
will serve as advisor and council to all business intelligence initiatives
including business intelligence strategy, business intelligence implementation
and business intelligence reporting. Business intelligence consulting
usually offers services in terms of advisory (evaluations, planning),
implementation (management, development), education (training staff
and consumers if applicable), and vendors (marketing, product evaluation).
Growth of Business Intelligence Consulting
One of the reasons that the business intelligence consulting industry
keeps growing is because many companies and organizations realize that
successful business intelligence isn’t based on the technology
alone. What business intelligence consulting does is help fill the
gap that technology itself can’t cover. Successful business intelligence
also requires an approach for managing both the process side AND people
side of business, and the ability to always keep goals, requirements,
performance indicators and other factors at the forefront of all decisions
and strategies. These are the kinds of things that business intelligence
consulting can be in charge of.
Business Intelligence Consulting and Integration
Demand for business intelligence consulting continues to grow as more
organizations seek to take their business intelligence to an enterprise-wide
level. Such an initiative is a huge investment of time and money for
organizations, and being able to access business intelligence consulting
can ensure the project is a success, the implementation runs smoothly,
and the end result is user-friendly among all users and consumers (if
applicable). The quality of business intelligence consulting depends
heavily on an integrated system, as the ability to do the job of a
business intelligence consult requires reliable data and access to
a variety of department systems and processes. With any business intelligence
consulting project, satisfying business objectives is critical to the
project. In an ideal business intelligence consulting project, there
should be perfect integration of project management, collaboration
tools and software development life cycle, which should be easily accessible,
show the relationships across the project’s timeline, give flexible
search filters, offer a way to report on any chosen criteria and finally,
make every project asset completely and totally recyclable.
Business Sectors & Business Intelligence Consulting
Business intelligence consulting takes place in a variety of industries
and sectors, including the public sector (such as police departments),
retail business (such as department stores), healthcare sector (such
as hospitals), sport (such as an NFL team), entertainment (such as
movie studios), financial sector (such as banks), and so on. Business
intelligence consulting can be found in every segment of the workplace,
but healthcare and energy are two industries that are currently hot
markets for business intelligence consulting.
Ideal Business Intelligence Consultants
People with solid business knowledge and experience, in addition to
understand and execute on the IT level are ideal
in business intelligence consulting jobs, because
the key to business intelligence is the perfect blend
of business and IT. In 2007, business intelligence consulting jobs
on average paid an annual salary of $80,000 to over $100,000, depending
on the industry sector.
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