Data consolidation goes mainstream in Asia Pacific

Source: Pivotal infographic. How businesses rate themselves in data readiness in Asia Pacific.

Pivotal's survey, Data Technology Adoption and Maturity in Asia Pacific, has revealed that consolidation across data silos is now mainstream and a key business priority for enterprises as they move ahead in 2016. The emphasis on data consolidation highlights the growing maturity for data management and the start of a change process across organisations in Asia Pacific to modernise, enabling the enterprise to reap the benefits of cross-business unit access/analysis and thus become more agile, efficient and resilient, the company said.

More than half the respondents (51%), comprising customers and partners across five countries in Asia Pacific, indicated they have already adopted data technologies for cross-business unit agility and intelligence. Asia Pacific businesses also show high levels of confidence in terms of adoption and implementation of data technologies. While 39% of businesses still say that their organisations fall short in terms of data readiness, nine in 10 businesses showed confidence in their organisations catching up by 2017. In addition, 58% of respondents indicated they expect their organisation to be more than 90% data-ready within two years.

However, respondents indicated there are still challenges in implementing and deploying data technologies:

• Budgetary concerns (22%) and issues with legacy data infrastructure (22%) were listed as top barriers for data technology adoption amongst Asia Pacific organisations, followed by IT complexity (17%)

• In reducing barriers to adoption, respondents indicated clearly defined co-existing strategy with legacy systems (25%) and open-source technologies (22%) as useful

• Nearly one in five (18%) also indicated relevant skills training as another key method to encourage technology implementation

Source: Pivotal infographic. Business imperatives for success.

Said Jason Jackson, Field CTO and Director, Pivotal Asia Pacific and Japan: “In the face of digital disruption, transforming into a data-driven organisation is no longer a choice. Organisations now need to look at transitioning from siloed approaches of managing data assets to consolidating their data across the enterprise in an agile and secure manner to keep up with the speed of business.

"Organisations are increasingly pressured to embrace software as a core competency as they make the transition towards a cloud-native environment to differentiate themselves and capture new opportunities in a mobile-cloud era. A truly data-driven culture where business divisions across the enterprise have access to growing databases and can unlock the full value of their data will enable these organisations to become the leaders of tomorrow.”