A special research report by UBM Tech highlights how aggressively enterprises are embracing data-driven decision making and analytics technology.

James M. Connolly, Contributing Editor and Writer

April 26, 2017

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We've had our share of "tech revolutions" over the almost four decades that I've been following the IT sector. The PC, the Web, the smart phone, and so on. But something sets what I'll call the data revolution apart from the others.

As in the other cases, the adoption of -- and advances in -- analytics technology has been rapid. But the difference this time around is that so many of those adopters are finding success and quickly integrating analytics tech into their day-to-day business operations.

The transition from backroom business intelligence and static reports to adoption of data-driven decision making using real-time analytics has been unique. The PC, the Web, the smart phone all lingered for a while as CIOs and CEOs pondered what they could do with them.

New research by UBM Tech -- the teams at Interop, InformationWeek, and All Analytics -- now provides a view into just how important analytics initiatives are to enterprise organizations. It's a theme we will be addressing on AllAnalytics Radio, Monday, May 1, at 2 pm ET/11 am PT, when we host How Does Your Analytics Initiative Measure Up? My guests will be blogger Lisa Morgan, who wrote the research report, and consultant Jen Underwood of Impact Analytix.

[Learn more about the analytics report and the streaming audio discussion on All Analytics.]

About the Author(s)

James M. Connolly

Contributing Editor and Writer

Jim Connolly is a versatile and experienced freelance technology journalist who has reported on IT trends for more than three decades. He was previously editorial director of InformationWeek and Network Computing, where he oversaw the day-to-day planning and editing on the sites. He has written about enterprise computing, data analytics, the PC revolution, the evolution of the Internet, networking, IT management, and the ongoing shift to cloud-based services and mobility. He has covered breaking industry news and has led teams focused on product reviews and technology trends. He has concentrated on serving the information needs of IT decision-makers in large organizations and has worked with those managers to help them learn from their peers and share their experiences in implementing leading-edge technologies through such publications as Computerworld. Jim also has helped to launch a technology-focused startup, as one of the founding editors at TechTarget, and has served as editor of an established news organization focused on technology startups at MassHighTech.

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