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1. Project Sponsorship and Governance 2. Project Management 3. Development Team (Core Team) 4. Extended Project Team

1. Project Sponsorship and Governance IT and the business should form a BI steering committee to sponsor and govern design, development, deployment, and ongoing support. It needs both the CIO and a business executive, such as CFO, COO, or a senior VP of marketing/sales to commit budget, time, and resources. The business sponsor needs the project to succeed. The CIO is committed to what is being built and how.

2. Project Management Project management includes managing daily tasks, reporting status, and communicating to the extended project team, steering committee, and affected business users. The project management team needs extensive business knowledge, BI expertise, DW architecture background, and people management, project management, and communications skills. The project management team includes three functions or members: Project development manager - Responsible for deliverables, managing team resources, monitoring tasks, reporting status, and communications. Requires a hands-on IT manager with a background in iterative development. Must understand the changes caused by this approach and the impact on the business, project resources, schedule and the trade-offs. Business advisor - Works within the sponsoring business organization. Responsible for the deliverables of the business resources on the project's extended team. Serves as the business advocate on the project team and the project advocate within the business community. Often, the business advocate is a project co-manager who defers to the IT project manager the daily IT tasks but oversees the budget and business deliverables. BI/DW project advisor - Has enough expertise with architectures and technologies to guides the project team on their use. Ensures that architecture, data models, databases, ETL code, and BI tools are all being used effectively and conform to best practices and standards.

The reality of the inbox is that people subscribe to a lot more stuff than they are committed to reading. As a result, they sift through the advertising and marketing noise to find the gems--the messages they connect with and that add value to their lives.

From your initial sign up process to the content and frequency of your messaging, your most important job is showing your audience that you respect the privilege of being invited into their inbox.

a lot of articles calling data scientists and statisticians the jobs of the future

there are more immediate needs that, when addressed, will have a much greater business impact.

Right now we have huge opportunities to make the data more accessible, more “joinable” and more consumable. Leaders don’t want more data – they want more information they can use to run their businesses.

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SuiteCRM was forked from the 6.5.x branch of SugarCRM because a segment of the community felt that SugarCRM Inc. was paying too much attention to its commercial editions and dragging its feet on updating the community edition. In addition to packaging up the latest SugarCRM codebase, SuiteCRM added a number of third-party extensions, resulting in a new system that is comparable to SugarCRM Professional in terms of features and functionality.

These are few of the benefits of implementing a good quality CRM All of your clients’ information is stored in one place, it’s easy to update and share with the whole team. Updates by colleagues should be saved immediately. Every member of your team will be able to see the exact point when your business last communicated with a client, and what the nature of that communication was. CRMs can give you instant metrics on various aspects of your business automatically.  Reports can be generated. These can also be used to forecast and plan for the future. You will be able to see the complete history of your company’s interaction with a client. Calendars and diaries can be integrated, relating important events or tasks with the relevant client.  Suitable times can be suggested to contact customers and set reminders.

Finding one system that will fit your needs in one package may not be possible, so be aware that you may need to customise it to fit into your company. There are infinite possibilities here so don’t get too carried away as costs will rise accordingly.

Ensure that the CRM works on mobile devices and can be accessed remotely. Employees aren’t necessarily sat at their desks when it needs to be used or updated. Real-time updates are necessary for ensuring that clients aren’t contacted twice with the exact same follow up.

OBIEE 11g skills, both in terms of new functionality (mapping, analyses, KPIs and Scorecards etc) and new infrastructure (WebLogic, EM, OPSS etc) A smattering of Essbase skills, focused mainly on the integration with OBIEE and Essbase (and the many workarounds and gotchas) Good ODI skills, both in terms of the basics, but also being able to write knowledge modules, integrate with OBIEE, deployment and migration Solid database skills – OBIEE gave the illusion through aggregates etc that database tuning was redundant, but time has shown it’s by far the biggest success factor in a project – get the database design and optimisation wrong, and your project is toast. You need to know partitioning, materialized views, index types, and increasingly, you need to get yourself on an Exadata project as customers are buying the technology but you can’t teach it to yourself at home BI Apps skills, but watch out for everything changing when BI Apps 11g comes out, and be prepared to learn the Fusion Apps and JDeveloper if you want to stay in the game Looking to the future, keep an eye on technologies such as in-memory (TimesTen), mid-tier caching (Coherence), plus technologies such as Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), “big data” (Hadoop, large data sets, NoSQL), complex event processing and maybe products such as Qlikview, just in case Oracle buys them, or at least to know what the competition are up to, or more importantly pitching to your boss

The other thing to bear in mind of course, if you’re an Oracle BI developer, is that you need to have great business, communication and data modeling skills.

ERP vendor selection. As the following graph shows, the primary candidates for ERP software were SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Epicor, and Infor:

The cloud question. Despite the hype, only 14 percent of respondents are using ERP delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). Although the best cloud vendors can deliver superior security and reliability than most internal IT departments, market momentum to ERP in the cloud is not there yet, as the following diagram illustrates:

Important lessons. Implementing an ERP system is always complex because the deployment drives changes to both data and processes that extend across departmental boundaries inside the organization.

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You cannot accept problems as handed to you in the business environment. Never allow yourself to be the analyst to whom problems are “thrown over the fence.” Engage with the people whose challenges you’re tackling to make sure you’re solving the right problem. Learn the business’s processes and the data that’s generated and saved. Learn how folks are handling the problem now, and what metrics they use (or ignore) to gauge success.

Solve the correct, yet often misrepresented, problem. This is something no mathematical model will ever say to you. No mathematical model can ever say, “Hey, good job formulating this optimization model, but I think you should take a step back and change your business a little instead.” And that leads me to my next point: Learn how to communicate.

In today’s business environment, it is often unacceptable to be skilled at only one thing. Data scientists are expected to be polyglots who understand math, code, and the plain-speak (or sports analogy-ridden speak . . . ugh) of business. And the only way to get good at speaking to other folks, just like the only way to get good at math, is through practice.