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Organizations say they are increasingly focusing on data-driven decision-making to guide their businesses, but a majority of business leaders lack confidence in the insights generated from data and analytics.
Data and analytics are increasingly becoming central to business decision-making, especially in areas such as driving customer growth, improving productivity and managing risk. But even as organizations push to make their decision-making more data-driven, business leaders accustomed to making decisions based on gut-instincts and experience are having trouble trusting insights from data and analytics (D&A).

How can Big Data get any faster? The answer is, it can’t. That’s where real-time analytics comes into play – a new tool that has only recently exploded in popularity.

Big Data has been around for a number of years, allowing businesses to collect a great host of information and gather it into one place, where it can be sifted through, analyzed, and then used in practice.

Since I started publishing this journal of case studies several years ago, I’ve always written about the transformative impact of big data analytics. I’ve been sharing best practices and industry insights, but I’m now often asked, how? How can organizations transform for tomorrow while still focusing on success today? How can employees stop wasting time on the old legacy systems and move to current and future states without running the risk of disruptions?

Many enterprises are investing millions per year to get their digital transformation agenda’s going. Agenda’s that consist of digitizing processes, building self-service portals and improving the customer service experience through adding a plethora of digital channels like WhatsApp.

"Big Data" is a Big Topic.

Data is growing exponentially and many investment analysts believe this has the potential to transform modern economics, driving innovation and giving a competitive edge to those who are able to harness its power.

Today’s Media and Entertainment industry demands that content creators and distributors develop a new way to leverage big data to understand and connect with audiences. Learn how big data analytics can allow you to listen to, analyze and respond to your audience across every channel.

Bologna, 3 December 2013 - Datalogic, a global leader in Automatic Data Capture and Industrial Automation markets and producer of bar code readers, mobile computers, sensors, vision systems and laser marking systems, expects a surge in next generation advanced data collection devices, which will intelligently edit and communicate data and play a critical role in providing improved Business Analytics, termed ‘Big Data’.