Business Analyst, IT Must Be Buddies for Effective Business Intelligence

Today business analysts are rapidly implementing and incrementally refining new analytics capabilities that yield useful new insights, based on incessant interactions with other business folks who are the end users of their solutions. In fact, the process of business analytics implementation resembles nothing so much as that of agile software development.

So who is a big hindrance? Why, IT, that “hideously inflexible” (in the words of one respondent to a recent Sloan Management Review survey) bureaucracy that guards the data warehouse – according to the business analysts interviewed by SMR.

Read more about how IT and business analysts need to get together here. Sourced by Enterprise Apps Today