Dashboards a 'false economy'

Most corporations with major business intelligence deployments create large data warehouses, whose incoming data must be cleansed to ensure integrity and consistency, and whose relationships must be clearly defined in data cubes, reports CIO Today.

"Over the years, traditional BI deployments have encouraged a perception that it's a costly, complex environment," says Boris Evelson, BI analyst at Forrester Research. In reaction, many enterprises have focused on dashboards, simplified graphical displays that bypass full-blown BI systems, and provide executives with business metrics in near real-time.

But the dashboard solution can be a false economy, Evelson says, because under any meaningful dashboard lurks the same hard groundwork to deploy reporting analytics and data integration, which together incur "80% of the cost".

AsiaInfo has won a contract from Chongqing Mobile, a major subsidiary of China Mobile, to expand and upgrade its business intelligence system, reports China Tech News.

"Business intelligence software is playing an increasingly important role in the strategy development process of telecom operators worldwide," said Steve Zhang, president and CEO of AsiaInfo.

Chongqing Mobile's existing BI system currently supports about 10 million subscribers.

Teradata, a provider of enterprise data warehousing, is set to open its second Global Consulting Centre (GCC) in India, reports TMC Net.

The new GCC will be located in Pune and will be a component of the planned growth of its Global Professional Services Consulting. The centre's staff will handle data warehousing and business intelligence software, and will offer superior expertise in end-to-end enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence implementation.

"We are experiencing substantial growth in Teradata's Global Professional Services consulting, the world's leading data warehouse consultancy," said David Klumb, VP of Teradata Global Professional Services. "The consulting centre team in Pune follows the successful model of our centre in Mumbai."