In today's economic climate, uncertainty is a common theme for businesses. With budget losses, high competition and job cuts being seen across several industries, avoiding unnecessary expenses is of the utmost importance. At the same time, though, organisations are still keen to be seen as successful, productive and agile. By Pooja Tyagi, Testing Engineering Specialist at NTT DATA UK.
Read MoreAccording to an Accenture study, 79% of enterprise executives agree that companies not embracing big data will lose their competitive edge, with a further 83% affirming that they have pursued big data projects at some point to stay ahead of the curve. Considering that data creation is on track to grow 10-fold by 2025, it’s crucial for companies to be able to process it more quickly, and meaningfully. By Eltjo Hofstee, Managing Director, Leaseweb UK.
Read MoreDid you know that autonomous vehicles are now the largest producer of data in the world? asks Christian Schäfer, Director Electrical and Electronic Systems, Aptiv.
Read MoreBusinesses today are dealing with increasing volumes of data, not all of which resides in a standard database. In fact, 80% of business data is unstructured, tending to be human-generated and taking the form of emails, word documents, reports and PDFs, as well as external data such as that created by the Internet of Things and social media. With such a variety of formats and structures, and often holding a higher level of vital information than structured data, storing, processing and analysing...
Read MoreData. It’s what drives the beating heart of our digital society - informing and shaping the increasingly complex landscape of business processes, markets, products and consumer needs. By Charles Southwood, Regional VP, Northern Europe and MEA, Denodo.
Read MoreThe Big data and analytics question is at the forefront of many business leaders thinking but it’s worth taking a step back and looking at some of the wider macro-economic trends. Since the post war era, UK productivity has risen steadily when averaged over the decades but dropped significantly following the 2008 financial crisis and is now only slowly reaching post crisis levels. In fact, the Office for National Statistics has stated that in the last quarter of 2017, productivity of British...
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