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Announcing: The 2018 Business Intelligence Competency Center Market Study Report

The fifth annual Business Intelligence Competency Center Market Study, a part of the Wisdom of Crowds series of research, examines the goals, resources, success rates, and funding methods of the Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC), a cross-functional group charged with defining, delivering, documenting, and promoting best-practice business intelligence (BI) solutions throughout the organization. The report addresses a wide range of BICC topics including reporting structure, funding models, current and future budgets, staffing and skills, activities, etc.

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The 2018 IT Analytics Market Study Report

The 2018 IT Analytics Market Study, part of the Wisdom of Crowds® series of research, examines the monitoring and management of information surrounding the operations of the information technology (IT) function. The IT function continually generates a substantial amount of operations data from multiple systems including physical data centers, hardware systems, activity within the IT support team, or application activity. The first edition IT Analytics Market Study examines usage, trends, and the importance of four main areas of IT analytics, including Operations Management, Resource Management, Resource Planning, and Systems Development.

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The 2018 Enterprise Planning Market Study Report

The fourth annual Wisdom of Crowds® Enterprise Planning market study provides an in-depth analysis of enterprise planning software, including perceived importance, adoption trends, deployment options, and current and planned industry capabilities. Enterprise Planning is defined as a system of software used to plan for the internal and external factors that affect an organization, including strategic, operational and financial planning. Included are over 75 pages of in-depth market analysis, with over 45 charts and tables, and 13 vendor rankings - examining the nature of enterprise planning, exploring user sentiment and perceptions, the nature of current implementations, and plans for the future. It also includes cross-tab analysis, where relevant, to explore key differences using the collected demographics.

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