Back in the 1990s I was working with a manufacturing company. One of the big projects I was involved with at the time was developing a better way to report on corporate performance. In particular, the focus was on sales reporting. So we built the imaginatively named‘ Reporting System’. Early on, it was apparent that the biggest issue we faced wasn’ t technical.

In speaking with a number of people for this month’ s feature on business intelligence, it’ s clear that the big issues from that time are still with us. How do we know what questions to ask and how do we define the measures we want to track? We look at these challenges and look at where business intelligence and analytics are heading over the next few years.

Enterprises have been working on building up their environmental credibility with much of the pressure being thrust at the CIO. Not only do IT staff need to improve the power efficiency of the data centre but they also need to understand the‘ greenness’ of the entire supply and operation of almost everything with a power supply. How IT can do this is something we look at this month.

jun / jul 2013

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Anthony Caruana, Editor

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