Five Reasons Why Your Data is a Mess

CEOs don't need more data to make goodproblem. There are at least five of them.
decisions - just better data."C-level executives lack information not data. It is
That's what CEOs revealed in the 2009far too easy today to provide data dumps to the
PriceWaterhouseCoopers' CEO Report, whichbusiness and have them search for that
reported more than 70 percent of CEOs sayproverbial needle in a haystack. Our assumptions
they aren't getting the data they need to makeof business value have to change," he said.
good choices; with 74 percent say they lack the"Anyone who attends management meetings to
information necessary to anticipate customerreview sales, inventory, or costs, knows the
needs.issues all too well. The most common question
The problem, according to Arkady Kleyner,asked - ‘why are your numbers
Co-Founder of Intricity, LLC, a leading provider ofdifferent than my numbers?'". By fixing the data
Business Intelligence and Data Warehousingmess, companies can achieve a single version of
services and solutions, is actually not just onethe truth.