{"id":9382,"date":"2015-07-24T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T19:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=9382"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:03:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:03:34","slug":"weekly-recap-pros-and-cons-of-shadow-bi-application-development-complexity-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/weekly-recap-pros-and-cons-of-shadow-bi-application-development-complexity-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Recap: Pros and cons of shadow BI, application development complexity, and more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-725\" title=\"Education\" alt=\"Education\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Education.jpg\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>Summary: In this week&#8217;s article roundup, we learn 5 areas to consider when selecting an ERP system, why users bypass traditional BI systems, how to best manage big data projects, and more.<br \/><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"20150721\"><\/a><!--more--><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">The pros and cons of shadow BI<\/span><br \/>\nWhen business users become frustrated by their current BI software (or lack thereof), what happens? They turn to outside software, or create their own &#8212; a process known as \u201cShadow BI.\u201d What <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Shadow IT lurks']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/7-reasons-why-end-users-bypass-the-it-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">reasons lead to this point<\/span><\/a>, and <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Users bypass IT']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/5-signs-that-shadow-it-lurks-in-your-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">how can you identify shadow IT<\/span><\/a>  in your own organization?<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20150724_ProsConsShadowBI_DataManagement']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/7-big-data-management-best-practices-for-your-it-playbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">7 big data management best practices for your IT playbook<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBig data projects are well underway in many companies. But, we are only beginning to see how IT management best practices for big data can be plugged into IT playbooks. <\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20150724_ProsConsShadowBI_ERPSystem']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/boston\/feature\/5-things\/2015\/07\/five-considerations-for-selecting-an-erp-system.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">5 considerations for selecting an ERP system<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nSelecting and deploying an ERP system is a huge decision&#8211;one that could greatly damage a company if the project goes south. How can you select the right ERP for your company? Or, perhaps a more important question: How do you customize it to fit your needs, <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'ERP Customize']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/the-best-way-to-customize-an-enterprise-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">without locking your business into a single platform or version<\/span><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20150724_ProsConsShadowBI_ComplexDev']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.itbusinessedge.com\/blogs\/data-and-telecom\/app-development-getting-more-complex.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">App development: Getting more complex<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nAs application development evolves, it\u2019s becoming increasingly complex. The growth of mobile combined with the rise of internet-connected things only makes development more difficult. How can you address these evolving development challenges, <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Turn employees into developers']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/how-to-turn-your-employees-into-web-app-developers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">without constantly bringing in new staff<\/span><\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: In this week&#8217;s article roundup, we learn 5 areas to consider when selecting an ERP system, why users bypass traditional BI systems, how to best manage big data projects, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Weekly Recap: Pros and cons of shadow BI, application development complexity, and more... - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"Summary: In this week's article roundup, we learn 5 areas to consider when selecting an ERP system, why users bypass traditional BI systems, how to best manage"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9382"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14131,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382\/revisions\/14131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}