Companies aren’t using Big Data for their own competitive advantage.
That’s according to a survey by Stibo Systems, which surveyed 200 “senior business decision makers” looking after IT.
And despite companies having zillions of bytes of data, 34 percent said they didn’t know what their firm does with the information. Another 15 percent said their organisations keep too much data.
But there’s another problem. Stibo’s survey revealed that pan-European businesses have trouble managing their data. Some get third parties to look after it while some don’t make any use of it at all.
Companies managing their own data centrally can use it better than firms which have “siloes” all over the place.
Simon Walker, a director at Stibo, said: “With so much of a company’s data being used for marketing purposes to inform financial decisions, it begs the question of why it’s largely owned by IT departments and not those departments that are using it. There is a large number of enterprises being left behind in big data adoption simply due to the lack of effective data management processes.”
