Top 10 Trends in Business Intelligence, Part 1 What Do They Mean to Manufacturing Companies?

Top 10 Trends in Business Intelligence, Part 1 What Do They Mean to Manufacturing Companies?: "The desire for enterprise-level business intelligence for many organizations continues to be driven by the ever-increasing need for an integrated view of data from many disparate sources. Fueling this need to integrate data are the growing demands for regulatory compliance, increasing merger/acquisition activities as the economy continues to improve, and an increasing desire among executives to monitor and analyze performance at the global enterprise level. Achieving enterprise-level business intelligence requires significant process and organizational changes, as well as a solid enterprise-level business intelligence strategy and architecture that address the goals and objectives of both the business and IT."