EXCELLENCE IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AWARD 2012 Australian Business Intelligence Leadership Forum Excellence in Business Intelligence Award 2012 Nomination

EXCELLENCE INBUSINESS INTELLIGENCEAWARD 2012

Australian Business Intelligence Leadership Forum

Excellence in Business Intelligence Award 2012Nomination Form


Nomination Process Fill in this form following the instructions.

Save the form with your company name.

Print the Nominee information sheet (Page 3), sign, scan and save.

Email your completed nomination form and nominee information page to award@businessminds, subject - BI Award 2012 Nomination / COMPANY NAME.

You will receive a confirmation of receipt by return email.

Notes regarding Confidentiality and Publication

The information contained in this application is used solely for the purpose of selecting winners for the Australian Excellence in BI Award but is otherwise

considered confidential by judges.

If you are selected as an award finalist, your signature authorises the Australian BI Leadership Forum to publicise your organisation’s name. In addition, your

signature accepts that finalists will also be required to submit a press release approved for publication outlining the organisation and project. This approved

press release to be made available to the Business Leadership Forum’s Award Steering Committee 7 days from the announcement of finalists.

Table of ContentsSection 1 - Nominee Information Sheet ……………………………………… 3

Section 2 – Background ………………………………………………………… 4

Section 3 – Short Answer Responses ………………………………………... 5

Section 4 - Best Practice Essay ……………………………………………….. 8

Section 5 – Other ………………………………………………………………… 13

Contact Us ………………………………………………………….. 14

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Name of Nominated Organisation

Lead Business Sponsor or Driver at Nominee’s Organisation

Name, Title, Phone, E-mail, and Role

Lead IT Contact at Nominee’s Organisation(Must be different person from above)


Contact at Solution Sponsor’s Company(If Applicable)


Signature and Date

Signature and Date

Signature and Date

Note: Your application is not considered complete until you print, sign, scan and email as part of the application.

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Organisation Description

Describe your (the Nominee’s) organisation in one paragraph.

Project Description

Describe the business purpose of your solution or practice in one short paragraph.

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Other Awards

Has this project been submitted to other awards? If so, which ones and when?

Rollout Date

What month and year did the solution or practice being nominated officially go into production?

Active Users

How many business users use the solution and/or practice at least once a week?

Types of Users

What percentage of the users fall into the following categories?

___% Casual Users (View reports several times a week)

___% Power Users (Explore data regularly)

___% Customers/Suppliers

___% Other (Please specify): ___________________

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Source Systems

What number of distinct source system applications does the data warehouse draw from?

Source System Percentages

What percentage of data in the warehouse comes from the following sources?

Enter an Integer: _____

___% Mainframe or minicomputer

___% Relational

___% Desktop

___% Other files

___% External data

___% Other. Please specify: ___________________

100%

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Express this in whatever terms you commonly use, like records, tables, files, gigabytes, terabytes, etc.

Data Volume

How much data is in the data warehouse, including any downstream data marts or operational data stores?

Maintenance Budget

What was the 2012 maintenance budget of your solution or practice? (Please check the correct range at right):

Team

How many full-time equivalent staff are on the current BI team, including external consultants and contractors? What percentage is external to the company?

____ Less than $200,000

____ $200,000 to $2.5 million

____ $2.5 million or more

____ cannot be disclosed

___ Number of FTEs on Current Team

___% of External Consultants/Contractors in above

Capital Budget

What was the 2011 capital budget of your solution or practice? (Please check the correct range at right):

____ Less than $200,000

____ $200,000 to $2.5 million

____ $2.5 million or more

____ cannot be disclosed

Load/Update Intervals

What percentage of data is loaded in the following intervals?

___% Quarterly

___% Monthly

___% Weekly

___% Daily

___% Less than daily. - Please specify the interval and

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Executive Perception

Which best describes how your top executives view the solution or practice? (Select one.)

___ Analytical tools that empower knowledge workers___ Monitoring system that reduces costs, boosts efficiency___ Mission critical system that drives processes & profits___ Strategic system that provides a competitive advantageStewardship/Governance

Describe the steering committee(s) or person(s) that set direction for the system. (One paragraph total.)

Initial Rollout

Please indicate how long it took to roll out the initial solution or practice, the total cost to roll out that system, and the years until payback.

Time (from approval to initial roll out): _____________ Start Date: _______________ End Date: ________________ Cost (including HW, SW, Services, Labor): $____________ Years Until Payback (or estimate): ____________

___ Business sponsors/drivers___ Project managers ___ BI architects/developers ___ ETL architects/developers___ Data architects/modelers ___ Subject matter expert/business analyst ___ Business requirements analyst___ Data modelers___ DBAs___ DW Administrators___ Trainers___ Other notable roles with more than one FTE:

Roles How many FTE staff fill the following roles? (Include external consultants in your FTE count.)

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Best Practices Essay

This is the most important part of your application!

Please describe your project and explain why it should win the Australian Excellence in Business Intelligence Award.

A panel of independent Australian judges who have expertise in the Business Intelligence field will evaluate the

entries using the following criteria:

Business ImpactWhat is the business value of the solution or practice?

MaturityExplain the original vision for the project, the degree to which you think you have achieved it (or changed it), and what you still have left to do (short and long term). To what degree has the solution’s or practice’s ‘vision’ been implemented? Has the solution and/or practice been operating long enough to corroborate business impact and growth?

RelevanceDoes the solution or practice exemplify best practices that other companies can adopt?

InnovationDoes the solution or practice use an innovative design or approach? Innovation can relate to technology, business, organization, methodology.

Ensure you explain your solution or practice and its distinguishing features clearly for the judges. Please be

as specific as possible, especially when it comes to describing the business impact or business value of the project.

Judges love to hear of tangible benefits such as cost-savings and ROI figures as well as intangible benefits. Finally,

tell us what you think is new or different about your approach from other companies and what things others can

learn from your successes (or failures)?

Please limit your essay to following four pages provided.

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Please describe your project and explain why it should win the Australian Excellence in BI Award.

Business Impact

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Other

Is there anything else that you would like the judges to know about your solution or practice that you haven’t already mentioned?

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EXCELLENCE INBUSINESS INTELLIGENCEAWARD 2012

Award Steering Committee:

Hanne Breddam

Suite 4, Level 7189 Kent StreetSydney NSW 2000

P | +61 2 8004 0310M | +61406 743 730E | [email protected]

award.businessminds.com

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Excellence-in-Business-Intelligence-Award-4340768?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr

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EXCELLENCE IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AWARD 2012 Australian Business Intelligence Leadership Forum Excellence in Business Intelligence Award 2012 Nomination