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A new global study of more than 2,500 Chief Information Officers (CIOs), released by IBM (NYSE: IBM) today, reveals that leveraging analytics to gain a competitive advantage and improve business decision-making is now the top priority for CIOs. More than four out of five (83 percent) survey respondents identified business intelligence and analytics – the ability to see patterns in vast amounts of data and extract actionable insights – as the way they will enhance their organizations’ competitiveness.

These results and other insights are detailed in the just-released Global CIO Study 2009, which is the largest face-to-face survey of CIOs ever conducted. The study, titled “The New Voice of the CIO,” represents the insights and vision of CIOs from 78 countries, 19 industries, and organizations of every size. The study reinforces the increasingly strategic role that CIOs are playing as visionary leaders and as drivers of innovation and financial growth.

With an increased focus on data analytics, the survey also revealed that data reliability and security have emerged as increasingly urgent concerns, with 71 percent of CIOs planning to make additional investments in risk management and compliance.

Other key findings of the survey include:

·         CIOs also are continuing on the path to dramatically lower energy costs, with 76 percent undergoing or planning virtualization projects.

·         76 percent of CIOs anticipate building a strongly centralized infrastructure in the next five years. Furthermore, more than half of CIOs are expecting to implement completely standardized, low-cost business processes.

·         Even as they build these standardized low-cost infrastructures, CIOs are able to focus 55 percent of their time on activities that drive innovation and growth, whereas traditional IT tasks like infrastructure and operations management now consume only 45 percent of their time.

Let’s hear the opinion of Pat Toole, CIO of IBM:

With IBM we always aim for customer satisfaction.  That’s why we welcome all comments or remarks on our products and services.   It helps us to improve, make your life easier and  the planet smarter.    So you’re comment not only contributes to a better IBM service, you’re also helping the planet.  It’s just the smarter thing to do

IBM’ers and customers worldwide are engaged in vivid discussions about our products and services, more specifically on Dynamic Infrastructure.  IBM has a long history of helping clients solve both tactical and strategic challenges. Our professionals can help clients of all sizes – around the globe – build and implement a dynamic infrastructure   Of course we have our traditional means of distributing news: a  journal, a forum, a website, webcasts, etc….But you can also tune in on Dynamic Infrastructure via Twitter (@dyninfra) or facebook: …

Hope to meet you there…

This is a smart illustration of Information on Demand.

Source : BBC