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• 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 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
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TRENDING
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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
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
Abboud Ghanem,
Regional Vice
President, Middle East
and Africa, at Alteryx
www.intelligentcio.com
• 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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