Our Top Data and Analytics Predicts for 2021

Predicts 2021: Data and Analytics Leaders Are Poised for Success but Risk an Uncertain Future:

• By 2023, 50% of chief digital officers in enterprises without a chief data officer (CDO) will need to become the de facto CDO to succeed.
• By 2024, widespread adoption of cloud will raise the CFO’s influence over the chief data officer’s (CDO) decisions due to explicit linkage of workloads to cost, bringing disruption to the CDO role.
• By 2024, 75% of organizations will have established a centralized data and analytics (D&A) center of excellence to support federated D&A initiatives and prevent enterprise failure.
• By 2023, organizations with shared ontology, semantics, governance and stewardship processes to enable interenterprise data sharing will outperform those that don’t.
• Through 2023, title inflation will drive 50% of chief data officer (CDO) appointments, leading to the CDO being an internal service, rather than a strategic business peer.

Predicts 2021: Data and Analytics Strategies to Govern, Scale and Transform Digital Business:

Predicts 2021: Artificial Intelligence in Enterprise Applications:

Predicts 2021: Analytics, BI and Data Science Solutions — Pervasive, Democratized and Composable:

Predicts 2021: Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on People and Society:

Predicts 2021: Data Management Solutions — Operational Efficiency Rises to the Top:

Predicts 2021: Operational AI Infrastructure and Enabling AI Orchestration Platforms:

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FYI some of these were picked up by Forbes: 54 Predictions About The State Of Data In 2021.