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Well, They Are Addictive

A tounge-in-cheek, yet insightful, article from John Myers in which he refers to Analytics as the "Soft Drugs of Business"

The gray area that has emerged is the class of “soft-drugs” known as analytical business intelligence. To the quants in the organization, analytical applications are viewed as free choice that provides enlightenment to the user and benefit to the organization to “see outside the box” of existing standard operational and financial reports. The business stakeholders or quants fight for the freedom of the analytical applications since they usually provide greater value over the existing IT-sponsored operational or financial reports. To the data governance organization, analytical applications are viewed as something that should be controlled and regulated since they could lead to the “destruction of the youth of the company”

Well worth reading the whole thing.

Published Nov 04 2008, 01:32 PM by Tim Wormus

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About Tim Wormus

In his role as an Analytics Evangelist for Spotfire, a division of TIBCO Software Inc., Tim Wormus is responsible for tracking and analyzing Analytics and Business Intelligence trends, as well as advocating their use and acceptance at Global 200 companies. Tim has published and lectured on analytics, including presenting an analytics tutorial at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit and appearing on a panel with analytics guru Tom Davenport. His experience has led him to consult on data analysis projects for Global 1000 companies and instruct analysts in the life sciences, manufacturing and energy fields. He maintains a blog that discusses best analytics practices for organizations striving to be best-in-class. Before joining Spotfire, Tim managed the implementation and integration of bioinformatics software in the life sciences industry for Swiss software provider Genedata AG. Prior to that he developed informatics tools to address challenges in the drug discovery process. He earned degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Kalamazoo College, in Kalamazoo Michigan.

 

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