Analytics is a critical part of most organisations operational models. No matter what industry you’re in, moving quickly from data and analysis to tangible results provides competitive differentiation. At least that’s what many vendors promise.

But in today’s crowded analytics marketplace, who can you trust? What’s needed to deliver on the promise of transforming data into real value?

And what do CIO’s need to cost-effectively and successfully lead their organisations through changing technologies? For an organisation to experiment with (and ultimately deploy) analytics, the responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of IT.

IT must provide secure access to lots of high quality data, a friendly environment for experimentation and discovery, and a method for rapidly deploying and governing models.