Cover Story: The challenge of analytics

Connected's survey of Irish businesses showed eager attitudes towards data analytics, but ample room for improvement.

Jason Ward, EMC director for Ireland, Scotland, and UK North.

The Connected/Amarach research study of Irish IT managers, conducted in association with Sophos and EMC, found that 53 per cent of Irish businesses are able to analyse their data, but 61 per cent are concerned about having employees with sufficient skills to get the most out of it.

''They realise that the main inhibitors are employee skills and knowledge. I think that was positive in that people are beginning to realise that we're ...