


Business Intelligence (BI) is a strategic initiative by which organizations measure and drive the effectiveness of their competitive strategy. In achieving this grand goal, there is need for analyze, software, resources,technical leadership,process leadership, executive champions and much more. It is a long terprocess and it can be broken down to goals, which are periodically analyzed for a good manage of resources and growth. It becomes difficult for anyone to comprehend wherethe BI project is heeded or when the project will finally end.Complexities related to BI project are numerous and come to fore onlyonce the project is in process. BI projects have always been in progressive mode. Each upgradation in its maturity level has had its share of problems. And to remove those problems, BI project have been endless in its journey. Advancement in technologies, Request for new Key performance indexes , Complexities of multiple interlinked systems and various other factors keep the BI project from ending. Let us look at the life cycle of a BI project and study the advancement in its maturity level and analyze factors which keep on extending the timeline of BI project.