Agile BI is a set of methods and Business Intelligence tools inspired by processes used in agile software development
Agile BI gives you:
- Quick results
- Fast prototypes to validate feasibility
- The freedom to change your requirements without derailing the project
- Efficient methods to switch between development, test and production systems
- Easy to learn methods for new team members
- A safe environment to experiment with new ideas
An agile BI System empowers you to fulfill and even outperform expectations from the business. Building and Maintaining BI can be a lot of fun this way.Andreas Schindler
Using traditional methods BI Projects are easily derailed. See “4 common reasons why BI Projects fail” for details. Agile BI overcomes these issues.
How does Agile BI make BI Safe and Easy?
Agile BI is streamlined for maintenance
- Handling development, test and production environments is simple
- User can try out changes without breaking anything
- Going live with a new version or discarding development changes should take only minutes
- Changes are easy to make and safe
- Errors can be quickly resolved
- As little complexity as possible is exposed to the Developer
- Project integrity is enforced by the system
- Metadata Management is Automated
- Questions like “Where to refer to a Customer Field” are answered in an instant
Agile BI is Easy to Learn
- New team members need to be able to become productive in days
- A rigid project structure is enforced which:
- Makes is possible to understand your colleagues projects
- Ensures there are enough hook points where specific projects requirements can be adjusted
- Everyone in the team needs to be able to make (almost) every change
Agile BI Helps you to Understand your Data Sources
- It has methods and tools to navigate unknown data, including:
- Identifying which tables are populated and contain plausible data
- Establishing which fields are relevant and contain correct data
- Illustrating how data is linked
- Complex operations developed by Seniors can be replicable by Junior members of the team
- Gives you easy connectivity to all necessary source systems
In our Projects we use Halo Source to achieve all of the above.