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Why does an executive search firm have a business intelligence consulting division?

When the search firm has spent twenty years helping companies
hire Information Solutions executives.

In 1992, Isaac Cheifetz founded Open Technologies as a firm dedicated to recruiting for key leadership roles for Information Solutions clients, particularly those in Business Intelligence and Analytics.

Since then, Open Technologies has built a reputation for helping clients solve a variety of challenges critical to growing an information solutions business, whether hiring a critical executive, networking companies together for partnerships, writing strategic white papers, consulting on organizational structure and executive coaching.

In today's economy, all companies compete with information. Business Intelligence has gone from an esoteric discipline to an essential topic in the C suite. But building efficient, accurate and cost-effective Business Intelligence solutions is difficult.

Why is it so hard for companies to successfully build a data warehouse and turn historical data into valuable information?

Gartner Research estimates that 70-80% of BI initiatives are unsuccessful. How can these failures be explained, when the IT tools for managing, analyzing and delivering Business Intelligence continually grow more powerful?

At Open Technologies, we believe that choosing the right software is not the most important factor for Business Intelligence success. Just as technology follows workflow in manufacturing and services automation, so too in Business Intelligence.

We focus first on Information Integration and then Business Intelligence, because turning data into information makes building reporting and analytical applications easier and more efficient.