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Beyond Human-Scale

Excerpt from To BI or Not to Be

By Roger Meyer  |  May 27, 2006

Another reason BI is not widely adopted is that it is just not a human-scale process.  It’s hard to get your head around.  For example, a retailer who plans to have a Thanksgiving Day sale might ask a simple question: How much should we reduce prices so that we will sell everything on our shelves and simultaneously maximize our profit?  Getting the right answer is a huge computational process. Nobody I know can do that problem in their head.  

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