Business of Data Newsletter, Inside: The Business of Data Festival Hype and Solving Complex Problems with Geospatial Data

It's heating up! And no, we're not (only) talking about the sweltering heat that so many of us are experiencing at the moment!

We're counting the days till our upcoming edition of the Business of Data Festival where we will be joined by some top level talent like Tim Lum, Chief Data Officer at WPP, Xu Cheng, Head of Business Intelligence and Insights at Ascot Group and David Pires, Head of Data Visualization for the Expedia Group.

Register easily & for free now here.

The Business of Data Podcast: Solving Complex Problems with Geospatial Data

In this week’s episode of the?Business of Data podcast,?host Catherine King talks with David Henderson, Chief Geospatial Officer, Great Britain, and Captain Luke Parker, Senior Technical Officer, Department of National Defence Canada, about some of the complex problems they have been able to address using geospatial data.

Check the episode out here.

Assessing Enterprise Readiness for Data-Driven Business Transformation

Enterprises across the world are at an inflection point. As speed and resilience continue to be critical to success, analytics and cloud leaders are focused on building data-driven businesses.

This market research report, conducted with global professional services firm Genpact, presents the results of our business transformation study with 200 global data and analytics leaders at large global firms.?

Some executives have moved their vision for a data-driven enterprise from the experimentation phase to scale successfully, with the help of the cloud. But for most, there’s still a long way to go. Just 21% of the 200 data, analytics and cloud leaders we surveyed say their enterprises use data-driven decisions to realize business value “all the time”.

Download you exclusive copy of the full findings here.

That's all for this week, for our American readers, Happy July 4th!