InformationWeek Research Reveals Professionals' Interest in Analytics

InformationWeek Reports, a service for peer-based IT research and analysis, announced the release of its latest research report, “2012 BI and Information Management Trends,” which includes analysis of results from InformationWeek's recent 2012 Business Intelligence, Analytics and Information Management Survey.

Based on the responses elicited from more than 542 business technology professionals, research asserts that interest in analytics in general, and advanced statistical and predictive analytics in particular, rose for the third year in a row, with 58 percent of those using or planning to deploy BI, data analytics or statistical analysis software saying they are extremely interested in advanced analytics. In fact, it came in at No. 1 among a dozen leading-edge technologies offered. Fifty-five say the possibility of lower costs is driving their interest in software-as-a-service/cloud-computing-based BI/analytics; however, 63 percent have data security/privacy concerns, and 46 percent cite data quality problems as the top barrier to adopting BI/analytics products.

Whereas enterprises said just 9 percent say they have lower than expected analytic value, 25 percent use mobile smartphone or tablet-based-dashboards/data visualizations to share BI/analytic insights and only 8 percent give every employee access to BI/analytics.

The report author, Doug Henschen is executive editor of InformationWeek, where he covers the intersection of enterprise applications with information management, business intelligence and analytics."Information management continues to be a challenge for our respondents," says Lorna Garey , content director of InformationWeek Reports. "In both this survey and our 2010 poll, 59 percent said employees have trouble accessing relevant, timely or reliable data. And this year, 40 percent say they're having trouble coping with rapidly increasing volumes of data and/or content, up 10 points from 2010."

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