TAKEAWAY: Statistics from a variety of sources tell a sad story about the state of business intelligence (BI). Eighty-one percent of respondents to a Data Warehousing Institute survey complained about inaccurate data, and 78 percent about arguments over which data belongs in master data repositories. Ironically, in another survey by Accenture, 42 percent of executives said they were overloaded with information. One big problem according to HP CIO Randy Mott, who oversees more than 500 terabytes of data: consistency across the whole enterprise.
