Balanced Insight Consensus® Overview

At Balanced Insight, we believe that enterprise intelligence is driven by the ability to connect your executives, managers, and employees around a consistent vocabulary; a set of key master data topics and key performance metrics. These information assets formulate the basis of your enterprise information literacy and should be managed as assets within your Information Portfolio. Properly managing your Information Asset Portfolio will enable your entire enterprise to align, focus, monitor, and deliver better performance in alignment with the enterprise strategy – no matter what your perspective.

Balanced Insight Consensus® supports an iterative approach to delivering an Information Portfolio for Enterprise Intelligence solutions. This iterative approach focuses on defining what the end users need; confirming the solution via a cross-enterprise stewardship process; and promoting a highly reusable set of well-defined information assets.

Balanced Insight Consensus® Requirements

Database Server

Oracle, Postgres, MS SQL, One$DB

Application Server

Operating Syatems: Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Linux
JDK: JDK 1.4.2
Servlet Container: Tomcat 5.0

Submit and Publish Interfaces

Business Objects, CA AllFusion ERWin, Cognos, Common Warehouse Model XMI, Balanced Insight Consensus® XML, DDLUtils, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Analytical Services, Mondrian, Oracle, Oracle Warehouse Builder

Balanced Insight Consensus® has been built upon the Information Packaging Methodology™ to establish business driven techniques to define demand, requirements, and meaning of: what outcomes is the business trying to achieve?; what decisions need to be made to achieve desired outcomes?; who makes these decisions?; what information is required to make the decisions? The answers to these powerful questions will allow an Information Technology organization to deliver “rapid time to value” solutions in the area of Business Intelligence or Master Data Management.

Balanced Insight Consensus® is focused on the development and automation of enterprise data stewardship and governance processes. Balanced Insight Consensus® enables an organization to take a cross functional, enterprise view of information as an asset, throwing out the traditional principles of data as a commodity. These information assets require a clear set of artifacts that trace their delivery to the enterprise including specifications, designs, and constructed objects. Balanced Insight Consensus® becomes the assistant to the enterprise data stewards who assure the quality, use, and literacy of the information assets throughout the enterprise. Balanced Insight Consensus® supports flexible workflow approval processes to enable approval by stakeholders and/or stewardship counsels.

Balanced Insight Consensus® publishes all approved artifacts supporting your information assets for consumption as a “single version of the truth”. This publishing process can be executed to your enterprise portal or to key technologies such as: data modeling tools, business intelligence tools, database management systems, meta data repositories, master data management tools, to name a few. The common form and publication enables your team to build a socialization and promotion strategy throughout the enterprise to improve your information literacy. The enterprise can leverage Balanced Insight Consensus® to browse, search, and navigate its content allowing for ongoing literacy around your portfolio of information assets.