Kevin Sonsky: BI Leadership and Data Governance
Kevin Sonsky is senior director of business intelligence at Citrix Systems. During the past 11 years, Sonsky has implemented an enterprise-wide self-service reporting environment that has delivered deeper insights into customer purchasing behavior. At the same time, he has established a grassroots governance program that has successfully standardized on dozens of key enterprise metrics and reports.
In this 30-minute podcast, you will learn the secrets to Sonky's success:
- How a BI team of 3 people can support a governed self-service environment
- How to lay a foundation for governance in a decentralized organizational structure
- The role of executive support in fostering governed self service
- Where to begin a data governance program and with whom
- The value of placing a watermark on certified reports
- The role of business and IT in data governance
- How develop a standard for self-service reporting tools
- How manage the proliferation of data extracts needed to support a self-service environment
- How to support a community of self-service BI users