When Your BI Software Has a Breakdown
Life sciences instrument maker, Beckman Coulter, publicly disclosed the company's trip into a BI rabbit hole, and subsequent escape, at the April 2010 Business Intelligence Summit organized by research firm Gartner. According to this report on Datamation, Beckman has $3.3 billion in annual revenues and 12,400 employees, but beginning in 2001 it created a business intelligence software monster appropriate for a company 10 times its size.
“In more than 15 years of interviewing senior executives about their business intelligence software implementations, I can't recall hearing about a more badly mangled environment than the tale I am about to tell. And I can't recall meeting a more candid IT executive than Dawn Conant, director of business intelligence at Beckman Coulter, life sciences instrument maker.
Conant publicly disclosed the company's trip into a BI rabbit hole, and subsequent escape, at the April 2010 Business Intelligence Summit organized by research firm Gartner.
“Conant and a team of 120 people (divided equally among IT, business, and consultants) implemented a powerful business intelligence software environment complete with validated and authenticated data, providing important insights about product profitability by region, customer, or other metric.”
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