Data access. The data architecture must provide a means by which various types of users can get to the data and use it for their BI purposes. Executives might want dashboards that provide status information on key performance variables that the executives are expected to affect and by which their performance is measured.

Assessment is the giving and using of feedback against standards toenable improvement and the meeting of goals.

This is a standard pattern in crossing the chasm. It is normally the departmental function who leads (they have the problem), the executive function who prioritizes (the problem is causing enterprise-wide grief), and the technical function that follows (they have to make the new stuff work while still maintaining all the old stuff).