bright ideas

If Silicon Valley is a speed boat driving Business Intelligence (BI) forward, companies today are latched onto the rope that it’s dragging in the water. Some are closer to the boat than others, but just to forewarn you, the boat has already (note, not “about to” but “already”) done a 180 degree turn.

During the last few years analytics has become more and more important as organisations rely on effective business intelligence to make better decisions.

The CIO 100 Top 10 Trends of 2015 says that CIOs are increasingly focused on tapping the value of the insights available from the vast amounts of information from structured and unstructured data, using advanced, agile analytics.

Like many of you who have read JRR Tolkein's masterpiece, Lord of the Rings, it would likely have made an impression and made you a lifelong fan. Even if you didn't read the ~1200 page epic, there has been no escaping the epic film trilogy by Sir Peter Jackson.

Last week Adam Dodds, New Zealand's IDC Research Manager published an interesting note highlighting the ongoing uptake of cloud services - NZ CIO's have the keys to the cloud. While the growth highlighted will not be news to industry participants, the insights may be.