Title
From Data to Insight: Work Practices of Analysts in the Enterprise
Abstract
With greater availability of data, businesses are increasingly becoming data-driven enterprises, establishing standards for data acquisition, processing, infrastructure, and decision making. Enterprises now have people dedicated to performing analytic work to support decision makers. To better understand analytic work, particularly the role of enterprise business analysts, researchers interviewed 34 analysts at a large corporation. Analytical work occurred in an ecosystem of data, tools, and people; the ecosystem's overall quality and efficiency depended on the amount of coordination and collaboration. Analysts were the bridge between business and IT, closing the semantic gap between datasets, tools, and people. This article provides an overview of the analytic work in the enterprise, describing challenges in data, tools, and practices and identifying opportunities for new tools for collaborative analytics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/MCG.2014.62
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE  
Keywords
Field
DocType
business data processing,data handling,decision making,analytic work,collaborative analytics,data acquisition,data driven enterprises,decision makers,decision making,enterprise analysts,enterprise business analysts,work practices,analysts,collaboration,computer graphics,data,enterprise,graphics,visual analytics,visualization,work practices
Enterprise system,Business analytics,Computer science,Enterprise software,Knowledge management,Enterprise information system,Enterprise integration,Business intelligence,Enterprise life cycle,Enterprise data management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
34
5
0272-1716
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.61
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eser Kandogan169864.49
Aruna Balakrishnan2110.61
Eben M. Haber363388.22
Jeffrey S Pierce4110.61