Benefits of a Business Intelligence Competency Centers

Due to its centralized knowledge and consolidation of best practices, the Business Intelligence Competency Center offers many benefits to your organization’s deployment of business intelligence software. The BICC helps you:

  • Maximize efficiency – The BICC optimizes the use and quality of your BI across all lines of business.
  • Increase value and lower cost – BI deployments succeed more often and deliver more value, at less cost, in less time.
  • Drive user adoption – A higher and faster adoption of the complete BI lifecycle and a single version of the truth across the enterprise result in improved user satisfaction, enhanced user self service, and better business decisions.
  • Close gaps – The BICC eliminates the gap between business and IT users to merge these two approaches to BI.
  • Eliminate duplication – Processes and procedures established by the BICC eliminate duplication of effort, inconsistent results, and delays in dissemination.
  • Decrease TCO – The consolidation of best practice functions and the centralization of competency and operational efficiency maximizes the use of technology resources and assets, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership for your BI and technology solutions as well as reduced implementation costs and deployment risk.
  • Enforce a BI standard – Through registration and guidance, a BICC helps enforce an organizational BI standard and provides the ability to identify new opportunities to leverage BI. These efforts result in an alignment of technology with your organization’s strategic goals and help to determine a clear vision for future BI initiatives.
  • Educate stakeholders – A BICC helps you inform key stakeholders of the advantages of employing BI.
  • Dismantle silos – With a BICC, you can open lines of communication among regions and departments to prevent a silo-driven approach to BI implementation.

Learn how the U.S. Coast Guard used a BICC to get the most out of its BI solution.