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Precisely 2023 Predictions: Three Ways Businesses Can Build Better Trust in Their Data During 2023

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Three Ways Businesses Can Build Better Trust in Their Data During 2023

By Emily Washington, SVP - Product Management at Precisely

Global data creation is projected to reach more than 180 zettabytes by 2025, so it's not surprising to see a recent study from 451 Research discover that nearly 79% of businesses report data will be important to their organization's strategic decision-making over the next 12 months. As we approach 2023, more businesses are undoubtedly seeking to unlock additional value from their ever-growing datasets and drive more confident decisions.

But to make decisions they can truly be confident in, enterprises must be able to trust the data that is driving their decision-making processes. To be successful, businesses need to adopt a data integrity strategy in 2023 - fueling decisions with data that is accurate, consistent, and contextual. With this in mind, below are the top three trends for data-driven decision-making we expect to see over the next year.

Increasingly sophisticated data initiatives driving even more data quality challenges

An ongoing effect of the pandemic is a greater demand for self-service models which allow more users to leverage data-driven insights across the organization, but make it harder to identify data quality issues as they occur. That, coupled with a push towards cloud transformation and modernizing data environments to support advanced analytics, means there's an increased emphasis for data quality as use cases for it evolve.

In 2023, as data initiatives become more sophisticated, organizations will uncover new data quality challenges, such as growing requirements for more easily accessible data. Organizations will need to adapt to the demand for these evolving use cases by adjusting their data quality practices accordingly.

Data observability enabling more proactive data management

Knowing that data quality challenges will become more complex, businesses will need to take a more proactive and agile approach to ensuring the health of their data. To address this, many businesses are already incorporating data observability into their data management strategy, allowing them to spot issues that impact the integrity of their data, and proactively take action - before it can lead to ill-informed decision-making.

For optimum results, businesses should consider data observability solutions that use advanced technology to apply machine learning intelligence. These tools watch for patterns in the data and alert data stewards when anomalies crop up, resulting in better quality data pipelines, more efficient decision-making, and ultimately, and an improved bottom line for the business.

The role of data governance continuing to evolve

While data governance has previously been seen as necessary to drive regulatory compliance or policy management, its role has evolved in recent years - with many organizations recognizing its much wider impact across the business. Research has shown that two-thirds (66%) of organizations report improved data quality as a leading benefit of data governance programs, with higher quality data analytics and insights (56%), facilitated collaboration (52%), and faster access to relevant data (50%), all closely following behind.

An enterprise-wide approach encourages a data-driven culture that is built upon collaboration and a better understanding of data. As a result, in 2023, we'll continue to see organizations increase their investment in business-first data governance programs as a pathway to more confident decision-making, increased revenue, and growth through improved visibility, accountability, and utilization of an organization's data assets.

The bottom line:

In 2023, more businesses than ever will be looking to harness the power of their data to drive strategic decision-making. The ability to be agile, and stay ahead of the competition, in rapidly evolving markets will rely on access to trusted data. A data integrity strategy will be critical to not just surviving, but thriving, during the uncertain times ahead.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Emily-Washington 

Emily is responsible for driving enterprise-level product strategy and roadmaps for Precisely’s data governance, data quality, data prep and MDM capabilities. She works closely with customers and product development teams to drive development, introduction, and adoption of all new products in support of our data integrity product strategy. Emily joined Precisely via acquisition of Infogix in 2021, where she led product strategy and held leadership roles in product management, customer success and marketing. Prior to Infogix, Emily held positions at Cyborg Systems and Respond.com. She has a BA in English literature from San Jose State University and holds a certification in graphic design from The Art Institutes.

Published Thursday, December 29, 2022 7:32 AM by David Marshall
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