business intellegence symposium

there is a percieved link between business data and firms performance

Restrictive access to data to exec level only

Lack of trust of data to lower level employees

Small minority of firms use business data

Too hard to use tools

33% of tech companies think they adequately use business data
Financial firms come in at 20%

Silos, lack of standards, and error prone data impede use. Used more in other countries than US

Dirty data a big problem in Europe

Defining a strategy and admitting that data is good or bad is the first step

Data governance is also an issue for moving forward