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Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App
by Cindi Howson
from McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 
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Excellent Book for those New to BI or Running BI Shops 
Excellent book defining BI best practices, how BI measures processes, BI for process improvement, defining what BI is, how to set up a BI strategy with real-life case studies. I cannot tell you how many times I have referred to this book - it is dog-eared, post-it noted, and referred to many times in my daily life of working in Business Intelligence. Cindi Howson explains what BI is, what agile is, what's worked well, what hasn't worked well, and there's a survey at the back of the book that I am... more info
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Yin and Yang 
Cindi Howson's book is timely, relevant, insightful, thought provoking, and actionable. She constructively addresses the Yin and Yang perspecitives of IT Professionals vs. their Business User communities, and the fertile common ground where their successful Business Intelligence initiatives and value resides; providing current reference cases generated from her market surveys and company interviews.
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Seasoned Professional Shares Key Insights 
Cindi Howson has impressed me as a thoughtful and knowledgeable professional who has contributed greatly to the BI field by living in the trenches, digging into the details, and teaching others about her experiences. It is hard to find a comprehensive book on BI that is written without an impenetrable cloud of technical concepts. Ten years ago, successful BI depended on the expert execution of those technical concepts. However, BI has matured, increasing the importance of nontechnical factors for... more info
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