Survey on best practice Business Intelligence Strategy - Join in

I have created a survey (link below) and will share the results back to this thread. Many of SAP's customers are focusing on establishing or reenergizing a Business Intelligence strategy and platform. Many questions arise and we often wonder how others are approaching the challenges. This is a quick 10 question survey. If the response is well received, we can have follow-up surveys or polls. Please take a moment to complete the survey and respond back with other questions we might add to future surveys.
Thanks.
[Survey|http://polldaddy.com/s/C63FAE8827A1432B]

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[https://community.altiusconsulting.com/blogs/altiustechblog/archive/2008/10/24/are-essbase-and-oracle-bi-enterprise-edition-obiee-a-match-made-in-heaven.aspx|https://community.altiusconsulting.com/blogs/altiustechblog/archive/2008/10/24/are-essbase-and-oracle-bi-enterprise-edition-obiee-a-match-made-in-heaven.aspx]
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