IDG Contributor Network: How business, IT partnerships develop operational analytics

A great example of business and IT working together to innovate is in the development of operational analytics. As data volumes and frequency of data continue to increase, organizations have realized that it’s not enough to analyze their data – they must take action on it. The initial step that most companies have had in place for quite some time, and that most companies still think about when they think of BI, is to build out dashboards and reporting to enable analytics and dec