As a startup, the company sought help in developing a short- and mid-term Bl strategy for their information management. This included data warehousing, BI software product adoption, IT resource staffing and solution deployment.

Reporting had been based on spreadsheet software. In a company of less than 100 employees, three disconnected Bl efforts were in place, and their system suffered from a series of problem

1. Conflicting reports eroded confidence in the usefulness of the information. 2. Competitive data and confidential informati

was accessible to too many peopl

3. The entire process required a high degree of manual intervention.