Landsbankinn

Considering that overall Targit had been doing a good work compared to BO at Landsbankinn, people will be interested/expecting to hear what were the reasons the bank had to chose one tool over the other one.

What are the next steps for BI at the bank? Chosing the right tool is just the first step. Will a BI Competency Center be created? Will training be given to users? What will be the Roadmap for migrating from Targit to BO? For how many months more will the bank be supporting Targit? Will more people be addedd to the BI team? People will have tons of questions so we need to give them a good idea on what the plan for BI is to calm them a bit.

Migration Roadmap

Goal on # of reports per month

Which departments/cubes will go first?

Testing

It would be good to present a practical example on a Targit to BO migration so that the users have an idea of what to expect

We need to have some time for a Questions and Answers session where we allow the users to voice their concerns and clear any misunderstandings they could have about the BI Implementation at the bank. (15 minutes)

It is important to give the people a general idea on where you are standing regarding BI at the bank (this will help us explain why some changes were needed)

Number of BI Solutions

Targit, SAP BO., SaS, Cognos

The People behind the BI Team

Number of users per solution

Since this is the main problem you are having nowadays, it is important to present what are the benefits that you are trying to acheive by standardizing your BI solutions.

Avoid Wasteful Duplication

Increase control and reduce data inconsistency

Reduce User Frustration / Better Alignment with Business Users

Benefit from Economies of Scale / Lower Costs

Gain better business insights (By sharing information across the company)

Focus on how to better use BI and capture best practives vs focusing on redundant skill sets, integration points and project requirement analyses

Here you will present a very general comparison between Targit and BO. This will help the people understand the "dilemma" the bank had on chosing one tool over the other one.

Niche Players (Targit) and Leaders (BO) according to Gartner

Leader: Leaders are vendors that are reasonably strong in the breadth and depth of their BI platform capabilities and can deliver on enterprisewide implementations that support a borad

Niche Player: Niche Players are those that do well in a specific segment of the BI platform market -such as reporting- or that have limited capability to innovate or outperform other vendors in the market. They may focus on a specific domain or aspect of BI, but are likely to lack depth of functionality elsewhere.

Benefits of BO over Targit

Ability to query both OLAP and Relational Databases

Integration option with other products & tools (MS Office, Sharepoint, Web Services, Mobile Devices)

Complete BI Platform

Benefits of Targit over BO

Ease of Use

Ability to use Alerters