Globalization, supply chain complexity, and commodity and currency volatility combine to produce mountains of business data. In the past, just being able to collect and manage the data was task enough, but now companies are looking to mine the data mountain to drive actionable value. Enterprise resource planning systems provide much-needed capabilities.

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Many organizations spend months and endure significant costs to obtain the reporting and analysis capabilities that BI technology promises, only to find that different “versions of the truth” still exist without any definite way of determining which one is real or accurate. This raises the question: Is “One Version of the Truth” achievable?

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