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satisfaction (41%) as a benefit of using
data. Overall two in five (40%) said that
analytics improved work-life balance and
are able to better balance their lives after
embracing data in their role.
Businesses can’t win in analytics
without the human element
• With digital skills classed as a major
priority for businesses, over four in five
(83%) agree that everything they are
investing in data and analytics is useless
without people who understand it.
• Proving that businesses simply cannot
proceed to tackle the technical challenges
existing in a data-driven industry without
the right workforce, more than two fifths
(41%) reported that it was easier to
access the talent needed to manage
analytics than last year, while almost one
in three (32%) have a team of dedicated
data scientists for all their analytics work.
• Only one in five businesses reported that
a talent shortage prevented them from
becoming a data-driven business.
• Those who are leveraging data report
several key factors that they still need
to overcome in order to be more
efficient. When allocating time to
performing impactful data analysis, one
in three (33%) cite data quality as a big
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challenge to building a data pipeline for
the business, followed by almost one
third (30%) stating a lack of strong data
governance is a major contributing factor
to wasted time that could have been
spent assembling insights.
A culture of data and analytics
is needed to transform data into
actionable insights
• When it comes to the building blocks for
their Digital Transformation initiatives, over
four in five (81%) agree that empowering
people is the key to Digital Transformation.
• Stressing that empowering employees
to affect business-change with data will
enable them to succeed in their Digital
Transformation initiatives, over one third
(35%) state a culture of data and analytics
will be the biggest game changer for
analytics success while two fifths (40%)
state they need more focus on employee
skills and talent to drive transformation.
• Businesses are starting to build this
culture to derive value out of their data,
as almost one third (30%) have a clear
enablement strategy based around
community, training and tools that
drives our data analytics usage and over
one quarter (29%) hold regular data
workshops to inspire data workers to
Alan Jacobson, Chief Data and Analytics
Officer at Alteryx
generate insights as part of our data
analytics strategy.
• In an increasingly data-driven world, over
two thirds (70%) of respondents agree
that data is so valuable that it’s become
a new currency, and the same number
agree data progression is also key to
career progression.
Technology can be an enabler or
constraint to data analytics success
• Proving data will always be at the
forefront and one of the most important
drivers of success and true digital
disruption, businesses across the UAE
reported the top three technology
enablers having the greatest impact on
their business today as data and analytics
(42%), Artificial Intelligence/Machine
Learning (36%) and Blockchain (33%).
• Technology can also be a constraint
to a data-driven business. When asked
which key technology enablers they
are prioritising investment in within the
next five years to support a variety of
initiatives for data analytics success,
almost one third cited data and analytics
(32%), just ahead of Blockchain (28%)
and Artificial Intelligence/Machine
Learning (27%).
• UAE businesses anticipate the biggest
technology game-changers for data
analytics success within the next five
years to include: self-service analytics
(31%), augmented data discovery (27%)
and explainable AI (27%). n
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