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Reporting, planning and Analysis for the Masses
I spent many years at AT&T watching organizations, divisions and departments build their own Excel-based reporting and planning systems. These systems took on a life of their own; with production MIS systems reduced to the role of data source for these business-maintained applications. Business users did this for a number of reasons:
Business Analytics Defined
In a recent Information Management article on Business Analytics Jane Griffin of Deloitte Consulting LLP provides her definition of the term. She breaks Business Analytics into four disciplines: analytics, performance management, business intelligence, and data management.