IDC study shows need for collaboration on big data analytics
Increased collaboration on “big data” and analytics projects between a company’s information technology professionals and end users will result in greater success, according to a new report from Framingham-based technology research firm IDC.
IDC said findings from its recent study, Collaboration in the Age of Big Data, shows improved success of big data and analytics (BDA) projects are more successful when there is increased collaboration among IT, line-of-business (LOB) and analytics groups.
"Many line of business and analytics groups pride themselves on their ability to bypass IT to fulfill their own needs for data access and analysis. But there is a fine line between data and analytics democracy and anarchy," Dan Vesset, a vice president at IDC, said in a statement. "Improved collaboration among all stakeholders can help mitigate risks and improve outcomes of BDA projects.”
But while there may be better results from increased collaboration, the study found that different stakeholders don’t always agree on the level of perceived collaboration. In fact, of those surveyed, 75 percent of respondents from IT said there is a high level of collaboration, but only 57 percent of respondents from business units agreed with that.
Most of those surveyed believe there’s not a lot of extensive collaboration among IT, LOBs and analytics. Just 21 percent of the LOB respondents rated their collaboration with IT and analytics colleagues as extensive, while only 23 percent of analytics group participants rated their collaboration with IT and LOB colleagues as extensive.
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