TRENDING
Marcel Yammine, General Manager at SAS
Middle East
“
AI IS FAST-
EMERGING IN
THE REGION
AS A KEY TOOL
FOR DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION,
AND THIS CALLS
THE NEED FOR
IMPROVED
ANALYTICS
INTO FOCUS.
The research, Here and Now: The need for
an analytics platform, surveyed analytics
experts, and IT and line-of-business
professionals in a wide range of industries
around the world. It found that analytics is
changing the way companies do business.
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This does not just apply to day-to-day
operations as it’s also driving innovation –
more than a quarter (27%) say analytics has
helped launch new business models. There
are many identified benefits of an analytics
platform, the most common being less time
spent on data preparation (46%), smarter
and more confident decision-making (42%)
and faster time-to-insights (41%). a strong desire in the business community
to boost competitive insight and efficiency
using analytics. The majority recognise
that effective analytics could benefit
their organisations, particularly as they
develop their ability to deploy cutting-edge
AI. But the number of those effectively
using analytics strategically across the
organisation could be much higher.”
Marcel Yammine, General Manager at SAS
Middle East, said: “During our conversations
with regional business leaders, challenges
during a ramped-up analytics and AI journey
include the need for an analytics platform,
and improved availability of skillsets around
data science and analytics. The survey underscored a lack of
alignment in the skills and leadership
needed to maximise the potential of
analytics. Many companies struggle to
manage multiple analytics tools and data
management processes.
“AI is fast-emerging in the region as a
key tool for Digital Transformation, and
this calls the need for improved analytics
into focus. Through these findings, it is
clear that as analytical workloads increase
and AI becomes more mainstream, a
comprehensive analytics strategy is the ideal
route for success.”
Adrian Jones, Director of SAS’ Global
Technology Practice, said: “The findings show
“If they are to achieve success, organisations
must put analytics at the heart of strategic
planning and empower analytics resources
to drive innovation using a unified analytics
platform,” said Jones.
Views differ on the role of an analytics
platform: most (61%) believe it’s to extract
insight and value from data, but many are
split on its other purposes or benefits, such
as better governance over data, predictive
models and open source technology.
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