IDG Contributor Network: CIO need to drive the real time enterprise

Life for the CIO and IT was relatively easy when customers, leaders and colleagues were fine with delays in receiving data, analytics, reports or insights. There was a general understanding that it took time to process data and there was acceptance in the manual efforts it required to produce reports. Leaders got used to looking at yesterday’s or last week’s results. Customers were tolerant to some latency in applications and lived with whatever level of data transparency was expose