-- nearly 1.5 times more likely than Industry Average and more than 2.5
times more likely than Laggard companies to use performance monitoring,
management, and optimization solutions focused on information availability
and quality;
-- more than 1.5 times more likely than Industry Average and 1.67 times
more likely than Laggard companies to use portals or dashboards for
consolidating, integrating and role -driven reporting of management data;
and
-- 1.3 times more likely than Industry Average and nearly 2.5 times more
likely than Laggard companies to have key professionals trained in
information architecture agility concepts
The survey also found that Best-in-Class companies enjoyed important business benefits as a result of these efforts and investments. According to the research Best-in-Class companies achieved an average:
-- 19.8% year-over-year increase in IT infrastructure operational
efficiency and business responsiveness;
-- 17.2% year-over-year increase in alignment of organizational IT
efforts with the business mission; and
-- 8.5% year-over-year decrease in unplanned downtime
"The users surveyed for this Study cite meeting evolving business demands
for and maximizing the availability of business-critical information as
primary pressures driving their efforts to increase information
architecture agility at their enterprises," said Michael Dortch, senior
analyst, Aberdeen. "To meet these challenges, Best-in-Class users are
investing in solutions and practices that are already delivering
significant business benefits and providing firm foundations for
information architecture agility."
This report offers specific recommendations to help companies to achieve
Best-in-Class levels of information architecture agility, through
integrated, business-driven management of key applications, information
resources and IT infrastructures. A complimentary copy of the report is
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