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Healthcare providers face a tight balancing act amid several regulatory and economic forces. Many are in survival mode, especially after the challenges faced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although providers…
What if it were true that only half the time, users can easily find, access, and use relevant data and analytic content from a business intelligence (BI) implementation? Would that…
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic represents the most significant unanticipated economic event since the financial crisis of 2008. Although some thought the worst was over by the end of…
Enterprise data has two broad contexts: operations and analytics. The operations context supports organizational operational activities such as sales, marketing, operations, finance, and customer service. The analytic context supports organizational…
People often view enterprise performance management (EPM) primarily as a finance system. This common perception stems from the finance function using EPM the most and EPM capabilities supporting key finance…
In 2020 and 2021, many organizations increased use of business intelligence (BI) and analytics to help them overcome business challenges stemming from the direct and indirect effects from COVID-19. BI…
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is common throughout the technology industry— and has been for decades. Between 2010-2020, 15,323 firms completed 41,796 M&A deals—averaging more than 4,000 deals a year,…
Enterprise performance management (EPM) software—around in one form or another since the 1980s—shows increasing evidence of market maturity. In 2022, 54 percent of organizations use EPM software, and only 22…
Of all the adoption and migration trends in data and infrastructure management, cloud computing is perhaps the most inevitable. Yet Dresner Advisory Services and other research providers consistently find that…
Collaboration is essential to an organization’s success—overall and in its BI initiatives. But collaboration happens only by design and by deciding to elevate collaboration as a priority, and make it…
Spreadsheets are the most common business intelligence (BI) tool used for data analysis and making decisions. The combination of a blank workbook, basic and advanced calculation functions, and easy customization…
Only 11 percent of business intelligence (BI) and analytics users consider open source critical. Despite sitting squarely in a minority, those people outperform the other 89 percent on many key…
This is the third and final report in our 2022 series on system integrators (SIs) and consultants. Most organizations report using, evaluating, or considering use of SIs and consultants. Usage…
Organizations often leverage systems integrators (SIs) and consultants to plan, build, run, and/or optimize their BI and analytics solutions. Engagement models include staff augmentation, project management, integrations, establishing success benchmarks…
The essential nature of master data management (MDM) solutions has remained fairly constant since the inception of the technology stemming from the customer data integration and product information management predecessor…
In mid-2022, inflation and uncertainty bring a new urgency to value perspectives. Rising risk and capital-market turbulence will force reassessment of many projects. In this environment, all organizations need to…
Though the 2008 global financial crisis happened nearly 15 years ago, the financial sector still experiences its wake. In the United States, the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act continues to enforce post-crisis…
The pursuit of making business intelligence (BI) useful is a series of challenges that require comprehending and uniting known technologies, processes, and human skills with business practices and objectives to…
The Dresner Advisory Services Business Intelligence (BI) Success Index®—like the companion BI Value Index®—is inspired by the many and varied economic indicators used globally by business and government leaders and…
Remaining “current” with decision-making competencies often proves difficult. In many organizations, processes can easily languish after their creation. This happens because they lack the updates needed to remain in step…
