Many successful companies today have foundtheir own ways of connecting data, people, andideas. What sets them apart is how they are takingadvantage of an unstoppable force — the increasedfragmentation of data, computing, and usage. Undergoing this insight-driven digital transformation— leveraging data as a strategic asset to better informbusiness decisions — is more popular than ever,and is therefore increasing the need for data literacyacross an organization. But adjusting to this newreality can be challenging. With information chaosmaking headlines in 2017, the data landscape can bechallenging to navigate, prompting an increased needfor governance, security, and data quality. “De-silofcation”What is it THE QUESTION IS: How do we balance the moveinto an analytics economywhile maintaining privacyIt’s about taking fragmenteddata, people, and ideas outof their silos and connectingthem in agile, innovative, andgoverned ways — known asthe “de-silofcation” of data. We’ve identifed 11 emerging trendsthat will start to make this possible fororganizations in 2018, helping them totransform their business.Read on to fnd out whatthey are, and howyou can help yourbusiness make this move.How is it changing BI Data literacy, known as the ability to read, work with, analyze, and arguewith data, is becoming more important in today’s analytics economy.In fact, Gartner predicts “by 2020 80% of organizationsinitiate deliberate competency development in the feld ofdata literacy, acknowledging their extreme defciency.” Tobegin making this change, leading software companieswill begin offering these types of programs in 2018,and good user organizations will take a structuredapproach to increasing data literacy. Data literacy will gain company-wideand societal priority. HOW CAN I GET STARTED Find out how data literate you are, plus how to increase your skills.TREND 1 1Source: Gartner:Information as a Second Language: Enabling Data Literacy for Digital Society; February 2017 READ MORE。。。。。。