Recommendations for
Purchase of
Business Intelligence System
ITM-501 Management Information Systems
And Business Strategy, Session Winter 2009
Dr. Paul Watkins
February 23, 2009
The San Bernardino County Office of the Assessor is responsible for the enrollment of the current
assessed value of vacant land, improved real estate, business property, boats, aircraft, and some
manufactured homes for property tax purposes. These tasks can better be performed by the successful
integration of business intelligence software with information warehoused in the database. The system
provides the tools to transform accumulated sales data into a viable and accepted form of actionable
information. It will enable the organization to gather, store, access, and analyze information to aid in
decision making. Application software can be used in the development, execution and management of
planned policies, programs and practices that control, protect, deliver and enhance the value of the
information enrolled. A database application would streamline the steps necessary to convey the
information to the various departments for utilization and would be of huge benefit to the organization.
One of the technologies offered by the IBM Business Intelligence and Performance Management
application is the IBM Info Sphere Master Data Management Server. It provides a means of centrally
managing customer, account and product information and translates into an effective way of managing
the current information stored in the Assessor database. This software works independently behind the
scenes to support and enhance existing applications. It is designed to function in a public service-
oriented environment and is tailor-made for our system. New channels and offerings can be added with
minimal IT effort thereby creating a centralized data management portal accessible to our customers. IT
support issues will be reduced and...