How Valuable is Business Intelligence to the Enterprise?; Business Intelligence
Overall, business intelligence is an IT success story: Our most recent IT spending survey found that BI spending is increasing more quickly than spending on any other application. This month's survey reveals that 72 percent of users say their BI efforts have had a major and measurable impact on their companies' bottom lines. But not all business intelligence goals are being met, and there are problems beneath the veneer of satisfaction. An overarching question in this year's BI survey is: Are companies learning how to use BI better? The good news is that experience counts. The longer a company uses BI, the wider BI usage spreads within the organization, the more the organization tries to do with the technology and the bigger the technology's contribution to the bottom line. That's just what CIOs would hope to hear. This year's survey also looks into the practices companies follow to achieve their BI goals.