Who thought that 2021 was going to be easier than the 2020 pandemic year?
The year 2020 meant overnight pivots to working from home, workforce reorganizations, moves to the cloud, and new channels to serve customers. Plus, organizations had to hit the accelerator on digital transformation projects that they had previously planned to implement over multiple years.
Vaccines arriving for the masses in 2021 paved the way for organizations to begin to talk about a “new normal” including a return to the office for some. Yet COVID variants reminded everyone that the world was still unpredictable.
For data and analytics professionals, the year 2020 was a tricky one. What do you do when your historical data is no longer a good predictor of what will happen in the future? The pandemic changed everything from commuting patterns to consumer behavior to the technologies needed to perform your job. That was followed by a year of working on the aftermath of those changes and refining processes, technologies, and insights.
Understanding the changing patterns has made data and analytics innovations among the most important practices in the enterprise in 2021 and going forward into 2022.
From the Automation to the supply chain to responsible/ethical AI, enterprises made progress in their efforts during 2021, but more work needs to be done. Maybe that’s why data innovation professionals continue to be in high demand. Here’s a look at some of the topics of 2021 in data innovation.
How to Choose Which RPA/Intelligent Automation Platform Is Right for YouA recent Omdia report empowers enterprises to make informed RPA & intelligent automation purchase decisions.
RPA Deals Heat Up Amid Faster Digital Transformation PushesAutomation is a key component in successful digital transformations today, and several big tech vendors are adding these capabilities by acquiring RPA vendors. Tibco and Blue Prism are joining forces, for instance.
How IT Organizations Are Using AutomationIT organizations already have a lot of automation in place. Here's how they are updating their existing automations and blazing new paths.
Data and Analytics Salaries Heat Up in Recovery EconomyAfter a year of uncertainty, the employment market for data scientists and analytics pros is heating up again. Data Engineers in High Demand, Winning High SalariesGet ready to pay six figures for your new data engineer. Quantitative recruiting firm Burtch Works' first salary survey reveals the salaries and trends impacting these data infrastructure experts.
The IT Skills Shortage Expands and DeepensIt's easy to identify the IT sectors experiencing a major shortage of skilled talent: all of them.
A CIO's Introduction to the Metaverse
The metaverse has arrived. Here's what CIOs need to know about it -- from business use cases, to risks, to vendor offerings from companies such as Microsoft, Nvidia, and Facebook.
