Business Intelligence Competency Centers

What is a BICC?

A BICC unites and promotes BI expertise
Comprised of a working team of IT and business users, a BICC is an organizational structure that groups people with interrelated disciplines, domains of knowledge, experience, and skills to promote expertise throughout the organization and to encourage and standardize BI use.

A BICC builds a path to BI standardization and lower costs
The BICC helps you become self-sufficient in deploying, using, and managing Cognos technologies throughout your entire organization for ubiquitous, unified business intelligence.

“Standardization on Cognos 8 BI coupled with a common, adaptable and repeatable framework in the form of a BICC will both reduce the total cost of ownership and act as a positive catalyst in achieving long-term success in BI implementations,” says Simon Gratton, Director of Business Intelligence at TELUS.

Cognos Consulting puts you on track

• The Cognos Global Customer Service initiative supports your journey toward BICCs and eventual BI standardization.
• The Cognos BICC Discovery Workshop helps you build your BICC vision and strategy by clearly understanding the BICC concept and determining where and how it can be implemented, as well as understanding its primary goals, objectives, and measures of success.
• The Cognos Solutions Implementation Methodology (SIM) guides you through the steps to analyze, design, build, deploy, and operate your BICC.

To learn more about these BICC services from Cognos, an IBM company, please visit the Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management.

Additional Resources:

Driving BI Across the Enterprise - Winning Conditions through Standardization & BICC

Online Demo

Clearly outlines the importance of standardizing on a single BI platform, the roll that a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) plays in making the right decisions toward that goal, the common reasons why BICCs fail, and best practices to use when formalizing one.

Building a Business Intelligence Competency Center: Establishing a Culture of Best Practices

White Paper

Learn how a BICC can strengthen your BI understanding, planning and communication and determine how to establish an initial plan to define your BICC charter.

Choosing a Standard for BI and Reporting: Simplify the IT Environment Reduce Your TCO Increase Your ROI.

White Paper

Read about the factors to consider in standardizing your BI, the importance of TCO, and why IBM Cognos 8 BI is the only choice for BI standardization.

Eneco Energie: Powered by Information-Based Marketing and Decisions

Customer Testimonial

Read how Eneco Energie is achieving profitable revenue growth and linking strategic operational measurements to financial outcomes with Cognos 8 BI.

Fiducia IT AG

Customer Testimonial

Find out how Fudicia IT used Cognos to create a new revenue stream, expand user self service to BI, communicate with the over 850 banks it serves, and gain more transparency throughout the organization.

The University of Wollongong

Podcast

Find out how this Australian university is using Cognos to get an accurate and comprehensive view of its operations and share consistent, timely information among departments and faculty.

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