Building the "Business" in BI: Plan, Platform, People, Performance

The world has changed. Regardless of the impact of the recent economic downturn on your organisation, there is a general consensus that the business and economic landscape will not return to the pre-crisis state - but will eventually stabilise into something different. New business patterns will emerge; new ways of doing business will be exploited by early adopters to gain competitive advantage.

Business Intelligence and Performance Management will play a significant role in helping your organisation identify and understand the potential impact of these new patterns, providing the vital insight that business leaders will find invaluable. New ways of using BI, coupled with the increasing sophistication of analytic applications and the emergence of mash-ups, offer huge potential for IT to help build the business in this new world.

However, while BI offers significant potential in supporting the business, obstacles still abound: unengaged business sponsors; lack of business user involvement; fragmented information silos; BI toll proliferation; poor data integrity coupled with poor quality and inconsistency; skills gap; low adoption rates amongst business users.

With nearly half of organisations anticipating that BI budgets will increase in the next 12 months, it is vital that investments are deployed that build the use of BI and Performance Management in the business.

The Gartner Business Intelligence Summit will also provide you with the governance frameworks to ensure that BI and Performance Management become pervasive across the business. It will also show you how to leverage BI and Performance Management approaches and technologies to enable business users to capitalise on new and changing business patterns.

Conference Chairs 

• Ian A. Bertram
• Managing VP
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• Eric Thoo
• Principal Research Analyst
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