Bangalore: Business intelligence (BI) and analytics continues to be a top CIO investment priority, and yet user surveys by Gartner show that only 30 percent of potential users in an organization adopt CIO-sponsored analytics tools. This appears to be changing as organizations invest in making analytics "invisible," and more consumable and accessible, to the nontraditional analytics user.

 "A large enterprise makes millions of decisions every day," said Rita Sallam, research vice president analyst at Gartner. "The challenge is that companies have far more data than people have time, and the amount of data that is generated every minute keeps increasing. In the face of accelerating business processes and a myriad of distractions, real-time operational intelligence systems are moving from 'nice to have' to 'must have for survival.' The more pervasively analytics can be deployed to business users, customers and consumers, the greater the impact will be in real time on business activities, competitiveness, innovation and productivity."

Gartner has identified three key trends for analytics and BI professionals to consider in 2013 and recommendations on how to tackle them:

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