Aligning Data Warehouse Requirements with Business Goals

According to the Gartner Group, over 70% of Business Inte- lligence (BI) projects fail. Among the reasons are the dierent languages employed by IT and business people and the necessity of a long-term BI plan describing the goals of the organization. In current practice, when building the data warehouse (DW), strategic plans are rarely considered. In this paper, we propose a method to align the business plan with DW requirements analysis. By aligning the DW, we (i) validate the correct- ness of each decision makers' goals, (ii) ensure that their decisions and the DW contribute towards organization goals, and (iii) provide a long- term unied BI strategy. We instantiate this alignment by combining i* for DWs with strategic business models.