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Data strategy - the bridge to the post-pandemic economy

Nearly all senior business decision-makers (96%) surveyed report data strategies as essential to their organisations’ positive performance, including an average of 5.97% higher profit growth.

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75% of surveyed CIOs struggle to unlock data insights within their organisation

While 78% of businesses realise the value of digital transformation, only a quarter are using data to drive business strategy.

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Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust selects Agilisys for business intelligence transformation

The Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) has selected Agilisys, the public sector transformation specialist, to develop a business intelligence strategy that will enhance the Trust’s data and analytics capabilities.

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Data Decision Gap risks holding back economic recovery

Nine in ten global organizations struggle with data despite increased focus during Pandemic.

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Teradata forms global strategic collaboration with AWS

Deal helps enterprises accelerate their cloud adoption journey and digital transformation initiatives.

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Online Forex broker Axi Moves to KX Insights

Axi, a top 10 global online broker for retail and institutional customers, has signed a global enterprise deal for KX Insights, its cloud-first, real-time streaming analytics platform. KX Insights will support Axi’s ambitious growth plans by enabling the capture, analysis and visualization of enormous datasets in real time including market data quotes, customer trades, and derived calculations in the cloud.

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Sport Ireland packs winning punches with SAS

Use of Visual Analytics supports coaches with innovative training methods and tactics.

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Hardware-accelerated graph analytics

TigerGraph is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Xilinx, Inc. on a solution to make graph analytics capabilities more accessible for enterprises to accelerate insight while reducing costs and resources.

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Yellowfin explores the future of data storytelling

Augmented automated analytics will solve three key challenges to empower business users and subject experts to discover and develop compelling data stories more effectively.

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Data science boosts business revenue

A new survey from DataIQ, in association with Mango Solutions, one of the UK’s largest data science consultancies, has revealed that incremental value equivalent to 18% of business revenues may be generated as a direct result of an advanced data science approach. Even organisations at the early stages of data maturity claimed a 4.1 percent revenue increase directly attributable to data science.

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Aiimi and Databricks partner to deliver deeper AI and analytics capabilities

Aiimi will build on its successful client base – including Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, and BEIS – to deliver next generation data science and analytics platforms to Databricks’ customers.

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Data strategies 'not understood'

Mango Solutions has published the results of a study which reveals that while 95% of companies questioned have a data strategy, less than a third of those (29%), claim their data strategy is clear and widely understood.

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Big data spending to reach $50 million this year

European spending on Big Data and business analytics (BDA) solutions is forecast to reach $50 billion this year, an increase of 7% over 2020, according to a new update to the Worldwide Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC). The forecast also shows that BDA spending will gain strength over the next five years as the European economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for European BDA spending over the 2021–2025 forecast period will be 11%.

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Organisations still struggle with data quality

Businesses are challenged with the diversity, scale, and distributed nature of data, but 56% of data leaders are using analytics tools to improve tech and employee performance survey of almost 400 business decision-makers finds.

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CDO role needs redefining

Landmark Exasol study defines the changes needed for today’s aspiring CDOs — and the organisations that recruit them — to prosper.

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Videos

Martin James, VP EMEA at Aerospike, discusses the importance of application modernisation, efficient software and IT consolidation – all of which should mean the need for less databases, but with richer feature sets. He outlines both the pitfalls of holding onto legacy applications and systems and the benefits of modernisation and consolidation, with Aerospike well positioned to help customers with the attendant data management challenges and opportunities.
Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, explains why the organisation is transforming into a global think tank, before discussing the current digital transformation landscape – the good, the bad and the ugly! As ever, he shares some great insights as to what needs to happen to ensure that sustainability is front and centre of the digital world.
John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research at Fortra, discusses the company’s recent 2023 report on Business Email Compromise (BEC) Trends, warning of the dangers of email impersonation, payment interception, phishing and hybrid vishing, before going on to explain how businesses can optimise their email security through considered use of technology, training and processes.
Steven Wood, Director, Solution Consulting (EMEA, APAC), OpenText Cybersecurity, provides some brilliant insights into what actually happens during a security breach, how organisations can address the pain points of skills shortages and the need to consolidate security solutions, and explains how OpenText’s cybersecurity platform provides MSPs and MSSPs with a great opportunity to help end users optimise their cyber resilience strategies.

Expert Opinions

By Jori Ramakers, Director of CX Strategy, Tricentis.
By Ash Patel, General Manager, EMEA - Zimperium.
By Andy Swift, Cyber Security Assurance Technical Director at Six Degrees.
By Ann Keefe, Regional Director – UK and Ireland at Kingston Technology.