By Lynette York – Organizations need automation to access data more efficiently so that decisions can keep up with today’s breakneck speed of business.

To keep up with the pace of business today, leaders must constantly make quick decisions on behalf of their organizations—but if they’re not able to evaluate the full business case before taking action, these decisions can lead to unsatisfying and even harmful outcomes. So how can organizations achieve a quicker time to decision while still ensuring positive results? The answer is automation.

It’s no secret that looking at an organization’s data can reveal where the opportunities for improvement lie, and many companies already leverage business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools to help them make sense of this information. Harvard Business Review recently found that 86% of respondents believe extracting new value and insights from enterprise data is very important, and 75% see it as essential to delivering actionable intelligence to employees enterprise-wide.

Unfortunately, even BI tools don’t always move as fast or as accurately as professionals need for them to be able to operate with agility and stay competitive. Though by reinforcing these tools with automation technology, they can be more efficient and effective. Here are four ways automation helps organizations to unlock their full analytics and BI potential so that they can derive more value from their data to make—and quickly act on—business decisions. Read On: