Gartner has issued a new press release summarizing its analysis of trends in enterprise architecture (EA). Until recently EA has been strictly an information technology (IT) function that was narrowly focused on the data and technology components of the business organization. According to Gartner, however, EA is becoming a collaborative effort between IT and the business. They project nearly a third of all such effort will be collaborative by 2016, up from 9% currently.
Business intelligence can only benefit from this shift. As EA moves from a data-centric focus to a business and strategic focus, we should expect business intelligence efforts to yield greater value since they'll flow from a more sharply focused strategic vision of the business. Sharpening the strategic focus will be critical as information inputs from social networking channels both inside and outside the business multiply. Failure to do so will increase the risk of decision makers being overwhelmed by information noise.
Especially in larger and more forward-thinking organizations business intelligence and analytics are becoming less a matter of gathering data to make narrowly focused decisions and more about seeing meaning and context to enable long-term strategic planning and contingency analysis. Viewed in this context, I think the emerging trend in EA is a natural evolutionary step forward for business intelligence and analytics.
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