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 successf...