IBM Research Report Sample

Although most organizations find it easy to accumulate large amounts of information in assets such as transactional databases and ERP systems, few are able to use this information to improve their employees’ decision making. Despite a broad understanding of how analytics tools such as business intelligence (BI), performance management (PM), and predictive analytics can tap into data sources and expose data for use in decision making, Nucleus has identified barriers to analytics adoption at midsize organizations that include misperceptions about risk and costs as well as a lack of analytics-specific skill sets within most IT departments.