Redefining the Role of IT in a Modern BI World

How IT can evolve from producer to enabler and foster collaboration around analytics

Published October 2017

As self-service analytics becomes the norm, the role of IT is evolving from a producer to a strategic partner. IT professionals are helping their organisations transition from a traditional top-down approach to analytics driven by IT to a self-service approach enabled by IT and led by the business.

This change requires a new framework and overall strategy. Organisations must revisit past decisions supporting the core foundational components of a BI program—people, process, and platform—and make adjustments, as outlined in this paper.