How Your Customers Can Drive Innovation with Data
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How Your Customers Can Drive Innovation with Data Many modern business leaders now understand that if they are to master digital transformation, they must solve the growing challenges around data management, protection, and governance. A recent Hitachi Vantara report found that 6 in 10 business leaders are overwhelmed by the amount of data their companies store, and 75% are concerned that their current infrastructure can’t scale to future needs. The Uptime Institute also reports in a data resiliency survey that 80% of data center managers have experienced some type of outage in the past three years. Chandana Gopal, a research director at IDC, says the vast majority of CEOs – 95% -- say they want a “digital first” organization – and 25% say their company is now on that journey. How can organizations innovate while still managing their technology debt? IDC developed the Four Pillars of Enterprise Intelligence: Information synthesis Insights delivery Collective learning A strong data culture IDC found that companies with strong enterprise intelligence experience 55% greater business benefits than those companies with poor enterprise intelligence. “And this is across their financial, operational, and customer metrics, any metric that’s important to the business improves as the organizations becomes more data-centric,” Chandana Gopal Hitachi Vantara aims to help organizations achieve many of the goals Gopal outlines with its Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform One.