Information Brokers: The Missing Link?

Information Brokers: The Missing Link?: "In my previous article, SAP Business Intelligence and the Conservation of Complexity, I introduced the concept of an “information broker.” I made the point that a major reason many companies fail to realize the full potential of the information housed in their various application systems is because end users are unable to effectively deal with the high level of complexity presented to them. Even in a warehouse environment such as SAP BW where data has been cleansed, sanitized, de-normalized, and supposedly made fit for human consumption, it can be a daunting task for the rank-and-file user base to access mission-critical information. "