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How to Organize Your BI When Outsourcing

Posted August 13, 2008 | Leadership | Leadership |

Companies seek to concentrate on their value-adding processes and often consider IT infrastructure as a noncore area. Thus, a current trend in the organization of IT departments is outsourcing. When outsourcing, companies aim to reduce cost while getting a better grasp on service-level agreements (SLAs). However, IT -- especially business intelligence (BI) systems -- is becoming a key element for enabling agility in enterprise adaptation to changes in the business environment. This poses a serious challenge to traditional IT outsourcing contracts.

About The Author
Patryk Choros
Patryk Choros is a Business Development Manager in the Enterprise Performance Solutions Division at Infovide-Matrix. In the past, he was a project manager, running implementations of BI solutions. Now his main focus is on business value delivery in financial institutions. He can be reached at pchoros at ivmx dot pl.
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