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Analytics and Business Intelligence in general tend to play a big part in modern enterprise organisations, at least in my experience. Often what happens with corporations is that the larger they grow, the more risk-averse decision makers become, and suddenly things like analytics become nice foundations to lean on for when a decision is questioned.

What I'd be curious to see is the ROI on these tools. They obviously work in some cases, but do they always work? We currently employ three business intelligence developers, and two developers who actually build products. What's the most hilarious about it, however, is that despite employing three BI's I can't tell you if they earn their keep, because their data doesn't show that.