Data Barriers to Better BI

Four out of five CIOs say business intelligence and analytics are top priorities for their businesses, according to "The Essential CIO," IBM's 2010 global study of 3,000 global IT leaders. And you know what that means? As I always say, "Where there's better BI, there had better be integration."

31 percent. Managers who say they need information within one hour of business events occurring, according to David White, an Aberdeen senior technology analyst. White added that the top performing companies meet that goal by giving business leaders the tools and skills to generate that information for themselves.

85 percent. Business information that's estimated to exist as unstructured data, estimates Merrill Lynch. That means 85 percent of information isn't in structured, "easily" integrated databases, however in unstructured files just as emails, memos, call center notes, reports, whitepapers, technology, presentation slides, surveys and Web pages.

One-third. Business and IT leaders out of 800 surveyed who told the IT Governance Institute that significant legacy infrastructure investments are inhibiting their cloud computing plans.

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