Business intelligence is all about creating an enterprise architecture solution to the decision-support chaos that exists today. It is a cross-organizational initiative. Therefore, cross-organizational activities are of critical importance. The absence of those activities will lead to stovepipe development and will add to the "spaghetti chart" more data marts and more stand-alone BI applications that are neither integrated nor reconciled. As a result, the organization would continue to lose the opportunity to enhance its business decisions and competitive advantages. |