This document outlines six cornerstones for making Hadoop successful with business intelligence (BI). It discusses employing all types of data, including raw unstructured data and structured data from databases. It also recommends using all available analytic assets, providing self-service access for users, creating a collaborative environment, ensuring the architecture is open and extensible, and populating best-of-breed reporting tools. The goal is to get the best of both big data analytics on Hadoop and traditional BI by building a bridge between the two within a company.