39 Minutes

Enterprise BI solutions need to be efficient, reliable, and agile.

To meet that requirement, leaders must leverage an architecture that is open and standards-based, platform neutral, location transparent, and that features peer-to-peer services that are loosely coupled, interface based, and coarsely grained.

While architectures such as client server with a web-services wrapper typically cannot deliver on these requirements. SOA, on the other hand, is ideal.

Furthermore, with the right information-enabling technology and leadership, decision-makers can become performance managers.

Moreover, effective reporting is key to catalyzing your performance management effort.

We interview Meg Dussault, and Leah MacMillan to gain Cognos' perspective on turning information into higher business performance.