This presentation was presented in a speech in the BI & aNALYTICS CONFERENCE 2013 in Athens

1. BI Governance
Vassilios Moulakakis
BI & Performance Management Consultant
vmoulakakis@gmail.com
http://gr.linkedin.com/in/vmoulakakis

2. What is BI governance?
• Is like any other governance body
• Is the responsibility of the executive committee
• Is part of the IT governance model and corporate
governance
• Ensures information lifecycle* is regulated and
authorized in all stages for decision making
processes and strategy execution
• Contribute to shareholder value
• Make BI a corporate asset

3. BI Model

4. IT Governance Model

5. Six governance processes that govern the entire BI & DW Lifecycle
Data Models
Data Quality
Data Security
Data
Warehousing
Data Lifecycle
Metadata
BI Governance mix

6. Data lifecycle
Governance tools needed for BI data lifecycle
Change
Management
(ITIL, COBIT)
Business
Regulatory
Compliance
(SOX, IFRS. COBIT)
IT Auditing &
Security
(Cobit , ISO )

7. Data models
Project
management
(PMO)
Requirements
analysis
(ITIL – Service
design)
IT planning Change
management
(ISO or ITIL Design
Strategy etc.)
Governance tools needed for BI data models

8. Data Quality
Governance tools needed for BI data Quality
Compliance with
operational systems
(Single truth on
financial data)
Quality System
(ISO or other
Quality assurance
policies)

9. Data Security
Governance tools needed for BI data security
IT Security
(ISO or other
Security governance
policies)
Business roles
(ISO or Corporate HR
segration of duties
policies)

10. Data warehousing
Governance tools needed for BI data warehousing
ETL compliance
(ITIL, COBIT and
Database
Policies)
Technical
Specifications
(ISO)

11. Metadata
Governance tools needed for BI data metadata
Business
Definitions
(ISO )
Business-Data
relationships
(ISO , ITIL ,Data
Dictionary)

12. BI GOVERNANCE MODEL
People
Responsibilities
Roles
Accountability
Authority
Tools
Support tools
Operational tools
Project management tools
Audit tools
Compliance tools
Processes
Best governance practices
Methodologies
Documentation
Training- Coaching

13. Cost
• BI Governance model creates an overhead on IT
operations.
• Complex projects need special skills.
• Needs management commitment and approval.
• Change management attitude needed.
• CIOs and IT Management need a new mindset.

14. Benefit
• BI Governance model will ensure IT is delivering
the ‘right’ information.
• Management and shareholders trust IT for
delivering decision making critical information.
• IT management can guard the information assets
and provide traceability, accountability and
justification on data lifecycles.
• Better and relaxed decision making for
executives

15. Conclusions
• BI is unstructured and needs a governance model
to be corporately structured.
• People, Processes and tools need a new mindset
for maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
• BI governance is a complex IT process and needs
special skills.
• Delivery for a BI governance project is varying
but is not less than 6 months.
• BI governance is operational not time framed.

16. Case Study ΕΠΑ Αττικης
Scope : Develop an IT governance model
for Requirements analysis and Change management for BI
Process management
(Change Management for
BI workflow using BPM 2.0
Models)
People involved
(Business
analyst, Business
user, IT )
Tools used
(SAP, ITIL service
design , web
based
intranet, Process
management tool)

17. Case Study ΕΠΑ Αττικης
- Develop an IT governance model
for Requirements analysis and Change management for BI
Requirements
Analysis
• Intranet forms with approval process (EXCEL – SAP
PORTAL)
• BI Analysis (Change management SAP Solution Manager )
Development life
cycle and Testing
• Technical analysis system ( SAP Solution Manager and BW)
• Testing case studies and gap analysis (SAP BW and EXCEL)
BI Delivery
• Prototype and Quality assurance system (SAP BW)
• Final delivery approval (SAP Business Explorer)

18. Thank you
Vassilios Moulakakis
BI & Performance Management Consultant
vmoulakakis@gmail.com
http://gr.linkedin.com/in/vmoulakakis