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GARTNER: THREE AREAS DRIVING THE TOP TRENDS IN DATA AND ANALYTICS
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ata & analytics (D&A) leaders should embrace three imperatives when leveraging the top D&A trends for 2022 in their enterprise, according to Gartner. The three key areas are: Activate Dynamism and Diversity, Augment People and Decisions, and Institutionalise Trust. “This year’s top D&A trends represent business, market and technology dynamics that will help organisations anticipate change and transform uncertainty into opportunity, both of which have come under the purview of the D&A leader,” said Rita Sallam, Research Vice President at Gartner. Activate Diversity and Dynamism The rise of adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as AI engineering, drives growth and innovation while coping with fluctuations in global markets. Innovations in data management for AI, automated, active metadata-driven approaches and data-sharing competencies, all founded on data fabrics, unleash the full value of data and analytics. As one example, the trend “always share
data” reinforces data sharing as a businessfacing key performance indicator that an organisation is achieving effective stakeholder engagement and increasing access to the right data to generate public value. The 2022 trends in this category include: adaptive AI systems, data-centric AI, metadata driven data fabric, and always share data. Augment People and Decisions To make insights relevant to decision makers, D&A leaders must deliver enriched, contextdriven analytics created from modular components by the business. This includes prioritising data literacy and putting in place strategies to address the scarcity of data and analytics talent.
Institutionalise Trust Achieving value from D&A at scale is only possible by managing AI risks and enacting connected governance across distributed systems, edge environments and emerging ecosystems. As AI regulations proliferate globally, they are mandating certain auditable practices that ensure trust, transparency and consumer protection. By 2026, Gartner anticipates organisations that develop trustworthy purpose-driven AI will see over 75% of AI innovations succeed, compared to 40% among those that don’t.
respond to an increase in economic life online by building new data centers and investing in ways to dramatically increase data center capacity. “Over the past few years, we have witnessed extraordinary technical advances and a rise in computing devices that connect to the real world. Data centres are key assets in the data-driven economy and it’s critical that the industry pay attention to energy usage and space requirements as we move toward terabit speeds,” said John Schmidt, Senior Vice President, CommScope’s building and
data center business. “CommScope’s Propel solution was engineered to ensure data center operators can maximise existing infrastructure investments while preparing for future applications in a smarter and more efficient manner.” Propel facilitates the modernisation of the network. Propel introduces 16-fiber cabling to support the fast growing 400 Gbps and 800 Gbps speeds, as well as emerging 1.6 Tbps speeds. This enables leading edge network architectures to deliver greater capacity to end devices with increased efficiency, saving time and energy while also greatly reducing the cost per gigabit. Propel modules are available in four different interchangeable sizes with matching cable constructions to easily scale applications with system architectures. All components are ultralow loss for optimal performance and have a specific QR code for performance tracking and online instructions.
COMMSCOPE ANNOUNCES HIGH-SPEED FIBRE PLATFORM PROPEL CommScope has introduced Propel, a high-speed fibre platform designed to help data centre managers respond to the exponential increase in demand they are experiencing for computing power. This new technology facilitates the migration to Terabit speeds, by providing reliable connectivity and a robust network infrastructure that aligns with rapidly emerging data centre applications, enabling faster, more efficient access to data. Data centre demands have soared as workers, students, nurses, businesses, local communities and government agencies have moved to cloud computing, streaming services and AI applications. The industry continues to 6
CXO INSIGHT ME
APRIL 2022
Through 2025, the majority of CDOs will have failed to foster the necessary data literacy within the workforce to achieve their stated strategic data-driven business goals. Gartner research shows that organisations that deal with the human elements of D&A are more successful than organisations that only consider technology. A human focus fosters broader digital learning, rather than simply delivering core platforms, datasets and tools. The 2022 trends in this category include: context-enriched analysis, business-composed D&A, decision-centric D&A, and skills and literacy shortfall.
