Just just woke up at 4am to watch a webinar on business intelligence. (it was about this product but it could have been any product).
The product was fine in the sense that it had a lot of good visualisation and analysis features but it was, as always, disappointing because it didn’t actually provide any features to help define effective KPIs, reports, and measures.
There must be a way of incorporating traceability between measures, balanced scorecard like categorisation, and checklists to link KPIs to management reports such that the BI tool helps you actually populate itself with the reports, dashboards, etc that will be most useful to the organisation.
Given these tools are becoming more ‘self-service’ they will need to do this because there will be no IT/BI consultant engaged at the time of dashboard development to help.