Authors: Leah-MacMillan: dbta.com

Leah MacMillan joined Cognos in 2005 as vice president, product marketing. As a key member of the global management team, MacMillan serves as a driving force behind the global, go-to-market strategy for Cognos’ Business Intelligence solutions. Key responsibilities include building visibility and awareness for Cognos BI products and promoting a deeper understanding of the business value of BI to customers and the market. For more information about Cognos, an IBM company, go to www.cognos.com.

Articles By Leah MacMillan

Strategies for Building a Successful Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC)

In an effort to consolidate data across six separate business divisions, MassHousing, a leading provider of affordable housing for individuals and major developments across the state of Massachusetts, deployed business intelligence (BI) to consolidate large quantities of disparate data in a fast and efficient way. In tandem with its executive information system (EIS), MassHousing established a business intelligence competency center (BICC), to ensure consistent deployment across the organization and efficiency of all BI systems. MassHousing is one best practice organization that is taking its business intelligence initiative a step further with a BICC to help enable true business optimization.

Posted 15 May 2008 / May 2008 Issue