It’s a Win-Win: Best in Class Companies Benefit More, Dedicate Fewer People to BI

July 21, 2009

David Hatch on How Best in Class Companies Handle BI:

Organizations are facing pressure to deliver actionable information to the enterprise that is timely and effective toward meeting business goals. This requires t hatch_dave hat companies have access to the information, the ability to combine, aggregate and integrate the information, and deliver self-service access to BI for non-technical end users when, where and how they need it.

Survey results from Aberdeen’s April 2009 report Managing the TCO of Business Intelligence show that the firms enjoying Best-in-Class performance have overcome two major obstacles in achieving pervasive BI:

Best-in-Class companies are far more likely (96%) to provide self-service access to BI capabilities to non-technical users than Average performers (68%) and Laggard performers (7%)

69% of Best-in-Class companies have delivered access to BI capabilities to line-level knowledge workers (internal and customer-facing) compared to 44% of Average companies and 22% of Laggards

This new study, conducted among 370 business professionals during May of 2009, reveals the six specific methods and approaches that top-performing companies are taking to improve the pervasiveness of
business intelligence access, usage and effectiveness. Aberdeen group investigated several business pressures that are driving companies to seek increased availability and access to BI reporting, analytics, and performance management capabilities. The predominant pressure driving this is the need to make business information more readily accessible to end-users.

Click here to access a free copy of the study.

About David Hatch: David Hatch leads the Technology Research practice areas at Aberdeen Group. The team focuses on the role of technology, and the disciplines, processes and strategies that companies implement to improve financial, customer, and organizational performance. Hatch personally oversees research projects focused on Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM), and the investigation of end-user organizations’ abilities to collect, assemble, secure, manage, communicate and deliver actionable information to the enterprise.

Hatch has 22 years of expertise as a user, marketer and analyst of information management technologies and applications within several vertical market environments including healthcare, manufacturing, publishing/media, retail/CPG, and wholesale/distribution. Hatch’s topic coverage has included a broad range of primary research studies, such as BI deployment strategies, operational BI, BI in retail, managing the TCO of BI, financial planning, budgeting and forecasting, and data management for BI. A full collection of David’s work can be found at www.aberdeen.com.

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