The Future Arrives
For Information
Are you ready to take advantage of what’s next in business intelligence? By Justin Norwood and Jeff Deyerle
It has become eminently apparent that most
professional workers are knowledge workers whose success or failure largely depends on access to information.
Yet too many companies still wall off access to business
insights behind a dedicated analytics department. But
now, a better understanding of advances in embedded intelligence and predictive analytics are making it possible
for analysts and decision-makers to be one and the same.
After years of premature declarations, the ability to create a “predict and act” enterprise has quietly emerged.
The question remains whether companies have a culture
that empowers team members at various levels in the
organization to manage information responsibly and to
make decisions in a uniform manner.
Leading software providers such as SAP and Oracle
are now embedding BI in releases of their enterprise
resource planning solutions, instead of just bolting it
on. When transactional and analytical capabilities are
integrated into a single user interface, the power of
data-driven insights will be in the hands of workers on
the front line of the business. While many knowledge
workers will breathe easier knowing they can go to one
