ENTERPRISE IT
With ever-increasing amounts of data , how do Analysts , CDOs and CTOs deliver analysis-ready data to the C-suite to help shape business decision making
WRITTEN BY : ALEX TUCK
Data is everywhere . Evolving technologies , the consumer shift to digital and the IoT are just a few examples that demonstrate businesses have a massive opportunity to leverage data .
Stephen Walsh , Managing Director of Realise UNLIMITED , a London-based boutique analytical consultancy , says that their recent survey demonstrated that 81 % of C-suite said that data and analytics are critical to business growth .
Walsh says there has been a sea-change from pre-processed ; cleansed and well understood data that can be “ packaged up in views , cubes and schemas to be mined through and then sliced and diced via visualisation tools ”.
Now , he says , “ as the data revolution accelerates , our data repositories have evolved into lakes and ponds with the emphasis on volume and richness rather than ease of interrogation . From a business perspective , this has shifted the ‘ insight bottleneck ’ from IT .”
Walsh insists that the improved data connectivity , “ through the likes of logical data warehouses and the commoditisation of ‘ data science ’ in a lot of business user applications ”, has eased the bottleneck a little .
In his opinion , “ general data literacy is improving , but data misuse and mis-interpretation
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