CIOs prioritise over cloud computing
Business intelligence (BI) and analytics have again become the top technology priority for CIOs, replacing cloud computing, according to a survey of 2 335 CIOs, conducted by Gartner, PC World writes.
BI lost the top spot on Gartner's list to virtualisation in 2010, but returned this year. “I think it dropped off the top for a couple of years because expectations were really high, and they weren't really met,” says Dave Aron, VP and a fellow in Gartner's CIO research group.
The underlying technology was not necessarily the culprit, but reasons for the disillusion were more on a corporate level - companies not having the right business focus, or making sure that BI efforts were really used right, according to Aron.
The reason BI has made a comeback is because a lot of the trends CIOs hear about now, including more real-time data, big data and social networks, means there is a huge opportunity again, CFO World says.
“To be honest, I am still worried that enterprises still haven't got the skills and resources to make it happen,” says Aron.
Virtualisation, on the other hand, has, after a number of years in the top three, fallen further down the list. But that isn't a bad thing, according to Aron.
“What I have seen is that a lot of the server virtualisation work has been done,” Reseller News quotes Aron as saying.
CIOs rank technologies that are going through a lot of changes or they are worried about high on the list. Virtualisation has not dropped because it is unsuccessful, but because it has already been successful, Aron says.
Two areas that continue to keep CIOs up at night are mobile technologies and cloud computing, which are in second and third place on this year's list, compared to third and first place last year.
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