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 For many years, organizations have been deploying information technologies to help solve business analysis problems. The goal has been to drive performancevisibility for better decision making. An assortment of reporting tools, such as OLAP engines, packaged applications, custom code, spreadsheets, and VBAautomation, has been used in an attempt to address these issues. In the end,they only deliver point solutions that can’t scale much past their initial footprint.  From an Information Technology perspective, the task of managing and maintaining disparate reporting and analytic systems by itself presents an undesirable challenge. And when integration of these point systems is added to the equation,the project becomes high-risk with low strategic value.   It’s lurking. You know it’s out there and can have a big impact on your business.You hope to avoid its pitfalls, but know that you can never escape it completely:the unexpected.