The statistic shows the leading benefits of business intelligence and data analytics to business organizations in the United States, according to a 2015 survey conducted by the Harvard Business Review Analytics Service. As of 2015, 59 percent of respondents felt that the ability to access data any time, anywhere was an important benefit of business intelligence and data analytics to their organization.
What are the most important benefits of business intelligence and data analytics for your organization?*
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The graph depicts the proportion of respondents who gave a particular characteristic a score of 8, 9, or 10 on a 10-point scale, where 1 was unimportant and 10 was extremely important.
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