BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - September 9, 2010) - Companies with top-performing Operational Business Intelligence (BI) are twice as likely to share operational data across functions, and more than three times as likely to use a dedicated operational business intelligence platform, as companies with poorer performance, according to an Aberdeen Group research report. The report, Operational Intelligence: Boosting Performance with 'Right-Time' Insight, announced today by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (
The research report delivers hard-hitting facts based on responses from over 230 companies, and investigates the steps top performing companies have taken to use operational business intelligence to improve their business.
The report reveals the strategies top performing companies use to meet their performance management requirements. Aberdeen's research found:
- Seventy-four percent (74%) of companies succeeding with operational BI have a formal process for operational performance review, evaluation, and re-alignment
- Eighty-six percent (86%) of the top performing respondents to Aberdeen's study track operational performance against corporate goals
"The real value of operational intelligence is the ability to apply BI and analytical techniques to everyday decisions and create insight that is based on fact, rather than gut-feel," says Michael Lock, Research Analyst and author of the study. "Fast and clean information is a large piece of that puzzle, but several other factors contribute to an employee's ability to make better operational decisions. Successful operational BI delivers analytical insight to more areas of the business and shares information collaboratively across departments and lines of business."
You can access a complimentary copy of the Operational Business Intelligence report from the Aberdeen Group's website.
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