How insurers can avoid the big risks of shadow IT

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February 2015     Dear Alejandro, For any IT professional in an insurance organization, the opening statement of this Gartner report carries both a warning and an opportunity: "...business demand for new data capabilities far outpaces what IT can deliver, resulting in areas of underfunding and uncontrollable shadow IT. Insurance CIOs and IT leaders must take an aggressive approach to restructure the IT organization to avoid these risks." Download and read this Gartner paper to discover: How "high demand and immediate need for analytics by business executives" impacts IT Why "IT investments in data initiatives are not growing at the same pace as business demand" and the potential consequences What insurance CIOs and IT leaders can do to respond to these challenges and avoid the rise of a "shadow IT" infrastructure Download and read this new Gartner paper today! Thanks for subscribing to Charting Your Analytical Future!  This is your newsletter.  If you have topics you’d like us to cover or have comments about the content we bring you, please let us know at chethanshetty@in.ibm.com. Gartner, Can IT Keep Up With Business Demands for BI and Analytics in the Insurance Data Evolution?, Kimberly Harris-Ferrante, 25 August 2014. About Charting Your Analytical Future Update your subscription Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Contact the Editor   Share this Send to a friend Download the report now "Can IT Keep Up With Business Demands for BI and Analytics in the Insurance Data Evolution?" offers recommendations for managing important changes happening right now.  Download and read it today. Stay Connected!

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