Tag: data management

2024 MSP opportunity: Helping establish AI building-blocks

2024 MSP opportunity: Helping establish AI building-blocks

Just about every organization will be experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) in the coming year. Many of them will quickly discover that operationalizing AI will require them to get their data management house in order. After all, no matter how...

/ December 28, 2023
MSPs can fill the data management skills gap created by AI

MSPs can fill the data management skills gap created by AI

With the rise of artificial intelligence, an appreciation of the business value of data is now finally starting to increase. A global survey of 4,777 C-level executives and directors conducted by Accenture finds 90 percent of executives believe data is...

/ April 11, 2023
The growing need for multi-region records and data management

The growing need for multi-region records and data management

The impact of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduced in 2016 with legal enforcement across all EU countries by 2018 has impacted far more than the 27 countries in the European Union (EU), or the broader environment of...

/ June 1, 2022
Digital business transformation requires MSPs that get data management

Digital business transformation requires MSPs that get data management

A survey conducted by Pega of 750 senior vice presidents, vice presidents, senior directors, directors, senior managers, and managers of IT finds that 62 percent of respondents have identified data management as the most important competency their organization needs to...

/ November 26, 2021
DataOps opportunity for MSPs reaches a zenith

DataOps opportunity for MSPs reaches a zenith

A pair of recent reports highlight the growing need for data management or DataOps expertise that many managed service providers (MSPs) are in a better position to provide than an internal IT team. A survey of 150 executives at companies...

/ August 12, 2021
Rise of data monetization bodes well for MSPs

Rise of data monetization bodes well for MSPs

When it comes to data management, a full 96 percent of IT organizations are now operating at or over capacity, with not much relief in sight, at a time when more organizations than ever are evaluating data monetization opportunities. A...

/ June 10, 2021
Digital business transformation requires data engineering heroes

Digital business transformation requires data engineering heroes

Most organizations intuitively realize that sound data management and data engineering practices are at the core of any digital business transformation practice. However, a survey of 150 IT professionals working for organizations with at least 4,000 employees published this week...

/ April 29, 2021 / 1 Comment
Data is still what keeps IT leaders up at night

Data is still what keeps IT leaders up at night

The single most important attribute any managed services provider (MSP) can arguably have is empathy for their customers. If the customer doesn’t think their MSP is feeling their pain the odds that they will go find someone else who does,...

/ February 10, 2021
Survey uncovers data reliability opportunity for MSPs

Survey uncovers data reliability opportunity for MSPs

Digital business transformation is all the rage these days in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily because organizations realize it may still be months before they are able to engage physically with either end customers or suppliers. Projects that...

/ November 4, 2020
Digital business initiatives spur demand for data management expertise

Digital business initiatives spur demand for data management expertise

Many organizations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic have been accelerating their digital business transformation initiatives as part of an effort to continue operating at a time when it’s often not easy to  engage in person. The challenge those...

/ August 12, 2020