As an industry that capitalizes on the transfer and exchange of data, the telecom sector has a wealth of data on their hands they can use to stay ahead of the competition — network performance, product usage, customer information, billing details, and more. This constant influx of data presents a lot of opportunities for telcos, but only if organizations adopt strategies that aim to make this data accessible and useful.

A Forbes survey shows that data scientists spend 19% of their time collecting data sets and 60% of their time cleaning and organizing data. All told, data scientists spend around 80% of their time on preparing and managing data for analysis. One of the greatest obstacles that make it so difficult to bring data science initiatives to life is the lack of robust data management tools.

In 2020, however, contining to rely just on dashboards for your BI needs isn't enough. Why? Data is growing exponentially - in both size and complexity - within every business today. Manually keeping track of performance and searching for insights has become difficult for many users, and it's fostered new expectations - to be able to do more with analytics - including making it faster and easier to keep on top of changes or opportunities.

For our Head of Product Design and Creative Director, Tony Prysten, design is always top of mind. In analytics platforms, good design plays an important role in how people understand and use data. Here Tony shares how Yellowfin has been created with designers and developers in mind.

There seems to be universal acceptance that effective use of data can help maximize bottom line value. However, many businesses still aren’t successfully leveraging data to its full extent due to people, processes and technology roadblocks. Thankfully, there is a unifying approach to unlocking the immense opportunity for enterprises to more effectively leverage data to create new products, services and business models.

For some, this may look like a new category at this year’s Data Impact Awards. However, the Enterprise Data Cloud category marks the evolution of what was once the Data Anywhere category. The main reason for this change is that this title better represents the move that our customers are making; away from acknowledging the ability to have data ‘anywhere’.