Failed projects prompt companies to move to cloud analytics

While there is huge interest in data analytics among the business community many organizations are struggling with failed projects according to a new study which reveals 88 percent of respondents have suffered failures with recent initiatives. Reasons for the failure of analytics projects include low end-user adoption, projects going over budget, systems not providing the analytics users were expecting, and too many initiatives evolving into 'zombie' projects that were almost completed but not ready for end-users. Cloud data warehousing company Snowflake Computing commissioned the survey from Dimensional Research, the results show that more than half of data professionals believe their… [Continue Reading]