Analytics Across the Enterprise: How IBM Realizes Business Value from Big Data and Analytics

5. Enabling Analytics Through Information Technology

“It’s critical for CIOs in public- and private-sector organizations to turn the huge volumes of data being amassed across the enterprise into insights and to turn those insights into competitive advantage for the business.”

—Jeanette Horan, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, IBM Corporation

Perspective: Applying Analytics to IT and Enabling Big Data and Analytics Across an Enterprise

Analytics and customers are on the mind of many chief information officers (CIOs). In a 2011 survey, “The Essential CIO: Insights from the Global Chief Information Officer Study,” 83% of CIOs said they had plans that include using business intelligence and analytics to increase competitiveness, and ...