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How Valuable is Business Intelligence to the Enterprise?



By Allan Alter


  Table of Contents:
  1. How Valuable is Business Intelligence to the Enterprise?
  2. ' Finding 1'
  3. ' Finding 2'
  4. ' Finding 3'
  5. ' Finding 4'
  6. ' Finding 5'

Just 26 percent of companies using business intelligence have five or more years' experience with the technology. Those new to BI should be encouraged by the success of those who've gone before.

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How Valuable is Business Intelligence to the Enterprise? - ' Finding 3'


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Finding 3
BI Success Depends on Execution
IT organizations must focus on data management, ease of use and providing real-time information.To achieve their top business goals for BI—improving processes, sales and marketing compliance and so on—CIOs cite three priorities: improving information quality, improving management's ability to use information, and offering more kinds of information to more people. We asked respondents how they plan to accomplish these goals. No. 1, by a longshot, is improving data management; next, in priority order are improving ease of use, improving generation of real-time information and embedding BI into business processes and workflows. These tactics should be high priorities for any IT organization implementing BI. Unless they're achieved, companies will be hard-pressed to generate much value from the tools they use to obtain business intelligence.

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