Gartner Yearly CIO Survey Put Business Intelligence in the First Place

Gartner, the leading analyst firm, just published its yearly CIO survey. The Survey, conducting among 1,527 CIOs, revealed that the #1 technology priority for the CIOs in 2009 will be Business intelligence.

"Senior enterprise executives recognize that IT's contribution to economic performance extends beyond managing expenditures. They expect IT to play a role in reducing enterprise costs, not merely with cost cutting but by changing business processes, workforce practices and information use. CIOs continue to invest in technologies beyond the infrastructure core. However, the focus of these investments h

as shifted from planting emerging technologies to harvesting enterprise investments. This explains the apparent stability in CIO technology priorities shown in Table 1. CIOs expect to:

• Invest in business intelligence applications and information consolidation in order to raise enterprise visibility and transparency, particularly around sales and operational performance. These investments are expected to pay extra dividends by responding to new regulatory and financial reporting requirements.
  
• Invest in ERP technologies, a focus that reflects ERP's core position in enterprise operations. CIOs also plan simplification measures in 2009 that reduce the number of ERP instances, vendors and software licenses. These investments coincide with the priority that CIOs are giving to legacy application modernization.”

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