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Driver for Business Transformation in - Wipro

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE‐ DRIVER FOR BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION IN<br />

INSURANCE INDUSTRY<br />

ROAD MAP FOR A SUCCESSFUL BI PROGRAM<br />

‐ Five Best Practices That Can Create an Adaptive, Agile and Robust BI Plat<strong>for</strong>m<br />

Adopt the <strong>in</strong>cremental and iterative (2I) Approach <strong>for</strong> BI programs<br />

The common conception is that BI projects are behemoths and would always run above budget and<br />

beh<strong>in</strong>d schedule. And that when the program goes live the requirements of users would have long<br />

changed.<br />

Figure 2: Intelligence Enterprise Survey 2008<br />

The above survey results po<strong>in</strong>t to the fact that more than half of the BI projects did not meet the<br />

aspirations of the bus<strong>in</strong>ess.<br />

The 2I approach to BI projects can be summarized as follows:<br />

Get together with bus<strong>in</strong>ess and prioritize user requirements<br />

Divide the development of requirements <strong>in</strong>to small development cycles of 1 to 4 weeks and<br />

showcase the end results to bus<strong>in</strong>ess and get their buy‐<strong>in</strong><br />

Iteratively <strong>in</strong>crement the scope of the BI plat<strong>for</strong>m<br />

Do not put much ef<strong>for</strong>t <strong>in</strong> upfront detailed architecture, model<strong>in</strong>g and requirement capture<br />

6 | www.wipro.com/<strong>in</strong>dustryresearch<br />

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES

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