Gartner - Analytics Center of Excellence Capabilities

The analytics center of excellence has a new mandate for making the entire organization proficient in generating and leveraging automated insights. Data and analytics leaders should include a broad spectrum of organizational, project, data, educational and technological capabilities in their ACE.

Key Challenges

• Data and analytics leaders often struggle to define, establish and communicate the range of analytics capabilities their teams can offer the organization.
• IT leaders such as CIOs regularly contend that they want to "get out of the report writing business" and expand the notion of analytics from BI application development to enable the entire organization to benefit from data and analytics.
• Tactical business intelligence competency centers (BICCs), having formed within and emerged from IT organizations, are too limited in scope and technology-focused to provide broad-spectrum analytic enablement.
• Leading enterprises in most industries generally are more successful with analytics, but these deployments still tend to be targeted only at particular use cases, without knowledge capture or transfer throughout the enterprise.

Recommendations

• For data and analytics leaders such as chief data officers (CDOs):
• Become more consultative in your approach to enabling and fostering analytics throughout the organization.
• Evolve their technically oriented BI competency centers (BICCs) into analytics centers of excellence (ACEs) with a broader set of capabilities and domain knowledge. Specifically, focus on the five capability types detailed in this research — organization, project, education, data and technology.
• Establish an ACE that provides for self-service enablement, enterprise analytics, advanced analytics, prototyping, collaboration, knowledge transfer, and algorithm availability among internal groups and even close partners.

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