Business intelligence and analytics have again become the top technology priority for CIOs, according to a Gartner survey of 2,335 CIOs. BI lost the top spot on Gartner's list to virtualization in 2010, but returned this year. "I think it dropped off the top for a couple of years because expectations [for BI] were really high, and they weren't really met," said Dave Aron, a vice president at Gartner. Companies became disillusioned about BI, but now it's making a comeback as trends such as big data and social networks highlight increasing opportunities for business analytics, according to Aron.
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