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Why Most BI Implementations Fail

Business intelligence projects fail for a predictable set of reasons. The technical team builds dashboards that answer the questions they thought the business was asking. The business gets dashboards that look impressive but don't show the metric they actually care about. Or the dashboards show the right metric but use a different definition than the one the finance team uses, so the numbers never reconcile. Or the dashboards take 45 seconds to load because nobody optimized the underlying queries.

Good data visualization is not about aesthetics. It is about accuracy, agreement, and usability. The metric on the dashboard must match the metric the business uses. The definition must be documented and agreed across departments. The dashboard must load fast enough to be used in a meeting. The data must be fresh enough to be relevant to the decision being made.

We build visualization solutions that treat these requirements as non-negotiable — starting with the semantic layer, not the dashboard canvas.

Looker and LookML Semantic Modeling

Looker's semantic layer (LookML) is the foundation of a well-built BI implementation. LookML defines dimensions, measures, and relationships between data entities in a way that is reusable, testable, and governed — so that every dashboard using the "Monthly Revenue" metric is using the same definition, and when that definition changes, every dashboard reflects the change automatically.

We build LookML models that represent the business's data domain accurately: properly typed dimensions, correctly aggregated measures, join logic that reflects the actual data relationships, and access filters that enforce row-level security for multi-tenant or department-restricted data.

Dashboard Design and Implementation

Dashboard design follows the business questions: what does the person in this role need to know, at what frequency, with what level of granularity? We translate business requirements into dashboard specifications before opening the visualization tool — not the other way around.

We implement dashboards in Looker (for organizations with a Looker license) or Looker Studio (for lighter requirements), with consistent formatting, appropriate chart type selection for each data story, and filter and drill-through interactivity that makes the dashboard useful for exploration, not just reporting.