Harvard Business Review case study<\/strong><\/a> found that when integrated properly, data can accelerate most business strategies by improving the processes and empowering the people needed to execute them.<\/p>\n\u201cBusinesses that are getting data right fall into two categories: they respond to industry pressures forcing them to innovate, and they have leaders that understand data and are crafting a roadmap with data at the core of business strategy,\u201d says Johannes Kanis, Cloud and Enterprise Business Group Lead \u2013 Microsoft South Africa.<\/p>\n
Several industries in South Africa are proving this right: media, telecoms and insurance have responded to industry and economic pressures and have driven business growth by unlocking the power of insights through data.<\/p>\n
\u201cKey learnings from these organisations show that data has played a critical part in their ability to accelerate their digital transformation journeys.<\/p>\n
This requires the right combination of people, modernised processes and underpinning technology to extract valuable insights that will drive their businesses forward,\u201d says Kanis.<\/p>\n
Businesses need to skill employees right across the organisation \u2013 not just IT. Leaders need to build a company culture that makes data insights the golden thread running through business strategy and business decisions.<\/p>\n
Businesses most likely to reap business success and growth are those that combine a clearly defined data strategy with capabilities that enable the seamless and secure gathering of insights from their data.<\/p>\n
This is underpinned by tools like Azure Synapse Analytics, which Microsoft has now made available, which help businesses collect, digest and gain real-time insights from vast amounts of data by bringing together capabilities such as data warehousing and big data into one solution.<\/p>\n
Implementing solutions that use the cloud and analytics facilitates decision-making by leapfrogging legacy technology challenges and integrating data across all of an organisation\u2019s systems.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe trick for modern businesses to get their data right is to start now: establish underlying business and data needs, create a clear data strategy and culture around those, and invest in solutions that help achieve these goals,\u201d says Kanis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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