5 Tips to Prepare Yourself for Big Data Analytics

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Big Data and Data Analytics have become buzzwords in the present-age business industry. Providing extensive statistical insights into all vital operations, they have made it convenient for businesses to leverage their performance and achieve a higher degree of efficiency.

However, while around 52% organizations are already using big data analytics in some way, around 78% off them are still struggling to reap its optimal benefits. This is primarily due to the lack of the required infrastructure.

Here are some key tips to prepare your organization for the giant leap to implement big data analytics.

Do Not Get Your Hopes Too High!

Now that your organization is all set to implement big data analytics as a routine operation, and everyone is all so excited about it, it is important to understand one thing: The outcomes of data analytics will take some time to reveal. Data Analytics is a smart phenomenon, but it is not a machine that feeds on data, processes it and presents it to you in the desired form. It is a complete science that will require some time before it starts reaping its optimal benefits in the favor of your organization. Prepare for it beforehand, but do not expect breakthrough results right from the start.

Data is Not the Solution to Your Entire Business Needs!

Another point to be noted before implementing big data analytics is that it is not a magic wand that will solve your business problems with a single flick. It will provide key insights and elaborate results indicating the potential aspects as well as the pitfalls of your business operations. However, the efficacy of these analytical insights will only depend on how you make use of these data insights and put them into action. Big data analytics will only reap its optimal benefits if you effectively implement it in your business strategy and decision-making discourse.

Optimize Your Business Information Systems

Big data gathers and stores information flowing within the mechanism of communication and interaction going on within your organization. This may be the internal sharing of information, or the way your customers, partners, and prospects choose to interact with you and vice versa. Therefore, you need to upgrade and optimize your business technology, particularly the devices and computer systems that facilitate communication and information sharing. This will ensure that no significant bit of information goes down the drain without being recorded into the business information systems.

Create a Specialist Team of Data Scientists

You need to cultivate a specialist team of data scientists to leverage the potential of big data in the utmost interest of your business. Ensure that the data science team is comprised of a variety of professionals possessing expertise in data mining, text, image and video analytics, and are well-versed with data analytics tools needed to conduct research and deduce inferences.

Train Your Workforce

Since you are all set to create set your own data mines and leverage returns through big data analytics, it is essential to train your workforce on the revised set of standard operating procedures. Educate your employees on the standard methods of communication and information sharing, as well the security measures to ensure the protection of your confidential data logs.

Contributed by: Rick Delgado. He’s been blessed to have a successful career and has recently taken a step back to pursue his passion of writing. Rick loves to write about new technologies and how it can help us and our planet.

 
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  1. Businesses these days are bombarded with data and in order to use it, it helps to be prepared. That’s why it is so important to optimize your business systems so that all the important information is captured and can be utilized. If a good system isn’t in place, this can’t happen.

  2. JULIE LEMIEUX says

    I would like to pick experts brain on on to best way in selecting technologies for a large farm company ? at this point we are allover the place exploring GDrive, Zoho cliq and projects. We find it limiting at this point and I’m unsure if we are in the right direction. Should we move straight to something like Office 365 and grow into the Microsoft ecosystem or stay with Google or something else. I understand I didn’t expose all our needs but just curious to read your comments, thanks!