Comments on: Spend Analysis Expectations http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2007/04/11/spend-analysis-expectations/ The source of information and best practices in strategic sourcing. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:40:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Eric Strovink http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2007/04/11/spend-analysis-expectations/#comment-6942 Eric Strovink Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:43:32 +0000 http://www.esourcingforum.com/?p=423#comment-6942 Ken's point is that it needs to be easy to create analysis datasets from the data sources lying around the enterprise. It shouldn't be a big deal. So when a BIQ customer tells me (as one did just yesterday) that they have 24 datasets loaded on their server, and far more floating around the PC's of individual users -- of which only one is an A/P dataset -- that tells me the "ETL barrier" isn't much of an issue any more. That's the way things should be. Ken’s point is that it needs to be easy to create analysis datasets from the data sources lying around the enterprise. It shouldn’t be a big deal.

So when a BIQ customer tells me (as one did just yesterday) that they have 24 datasets loaded on their server, and far more floating around the PC’s of individual users — of which only one is an A/P dataset — that tells me the “ETL barrier” isn’t much of an issue any more.

That’s the way things should be.

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