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Doing a business intelligence project is an enterpise job, no less. But often that is the real value is the hard work of sorting out all the data. The Pareto theory to focuses on 20% of effort to get 80% of the value does not work in business intelligence projects. You need to get 100% of the data right and cleaned up before it can be mapped and reported consistently.


Cutting corners doing a departmental projects may work for a while but in the end if it is not linked to the core published finance results it will be soon be undermined and will eventually end in the scrap bin of good ideas that did not fly along with those who attempted to fly them.
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