A decade of media evolution has taken place in a few short months: in-home media consumption grew, while consumer confidence and ad spending declined during 2020.

Kantar’s Media Trends & Predictions 2021 provides insights into which audience behaviors and industry dynamics will stick by providing a deep understanding of next year’s media consumer, alongside the key media strategies designed to spark consumer-led economies back into growth.

Qlik launched two new resources that build on the recent global IDC study sponsored by Qlik, which shows organizations that invest in creating data-to-insights (D2I) capabilities through modern data and analytics pipelines are seeing significant gains.

Through the new IDC hosted assessment tool, every organization can evaluate the strengths and gaps in their own data pipelines. The tool also provides a set of recommendations that will help organizations better support and focus on strategic investments that can have significant bottom line impact.

“Organizations across the globe are missing a crucial opportunity to impact their performance by turning data into ongoing business value due to gaps in leaky data pipelines,” said James Fisher, Chief Product Officer at Qlik. “Qlik’s unique end-to-end approach to data integration and analytics can help any organization act at the speed of data through improved data-to-insights capabilities that drive tangible business outcomes.”

Additionally, a new Qlik data analytics application titled “Data as the New Water: The Importance of Investing in Data and Analytics Pipelines” provides a detailed geographic breakdown of the significant differences in how respondents in key markets such as the US, UK, Brazil, Australia, Singapore and Japan are positioned to either reap the benefits or fall behind competitors based on the strength of their data pipelines.

The overall survey of 1,200 business leaders shows that companies carrying the highest demonstrable D2I capabilities through modern data analytics pipelines (Leaders) are seeing significant bottom line impact.

• 88% of Leaders said operational efficiency improved (versus 76% overall), and the average improvement was 21% (versus 17% overall)
• 86% of Leaders said revenue improved (versus 74% overall), and the average improvement was 23% (versus 17% overall)
• 90% of Leaders said profit improved (versus 76% overall), and the average improvement was 24% (versus 17% overall)

In Asia Pacific, the findings show key differences in how each country is approaching data pipelines and their D2I capabilities, and how those approaches are impacting business performance.

• The average D2I score is 41.8 across Asia Pacific: India showed the highest overall score at 47.4, with Australia close behind at 42.4; Singapore and Japan carried the lowest scores at 38.8 and 38.5, respectively.
• One of the strongest impacts of a higher D2I score beyond increase in profit or revenue is an increase in customer satisfaction/loyalty, essential for businesses during a COVID- 19 impacted market. The overall average of increase in this category was 21.5%, with Australia leading with a 27% improvement, followed by Singapore (21%), India (20%), and Japan (18%).
• Virtually every company surveyed across Asia Pacific (96% or higher) reported a significant challenge in identifying which data sources were valuable: Singapore recorded the highest rate of this challenge (100%), followed by India (98%), Australia (97%), and Japan (89%).

Regardless of regional differences, every organization is inundated with complex and varied data types. Many are struggling to maximize the value of that data since it is flowing through unintegrated and leaky data pipelines, often due to a lack of a data catalog and change data capture capabilities. In addition, investments in AI and analytics are being undercut without an agile, automated, and agnostic data pipeline that continually transforms data from any cloud, system or source into enterprise-ready information that drives action and outcomes.

Qlik’s data integration and data analytics platforms, together with its data literacy as a service offering, deliver the industry’s only end-to-end approach to Active Intelligence. Unlike traditional BI, Active Intelligence realizes the potential in data pipelines by bringing together data at rest with data in motion for continuous intelligence derived from real-time, up-to-date information, and is specifically designed to take or trigger immediate actions. This eliminates data leaks by closing the gaps from relevant to actionable data (Qlik Data Integration), actionable data to actionable insights (Qlik Analytics) and from investment to value (Data Literacy as a Service). (Source: Qlik)

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Mid of 2020, Google released new key figures for measuring user experience, which will become a new ranking factor next year as part of the page experience and thus elementary for SEO.

CX has long since become one of the decisive differentiating features of top companies, which explains why every provider wants to push CX projects forward at full speed. According to Gartner, more than 80% of executives believe that in the not-too-distant future, they will compete based on CX alone, rather than price. In the context of the growing importance of artificial intelligence (AI), predictions like these suggest that there will be an enormous need for experience experts in C-level management for the following reasons:

All statistics on the use of Google Home and Amazon Echo point into the same direction: the users have focused on a small, sharply delineated area of application that is far below what was expected at the height of the hype two years ago. Therefore, the question arises, whether the optimization for language and voice search is really relevant?

The support of trading and data analysis platforms through Augmented Reality (AR) provides traders and investors with a highly developed financial technology that enables them to monitor and visualize the financial markets with an enormous depth of information. Novel or improved representations of dynamic data through heat maps or two-dimensional images, which change into 3D shapes at the push of a button or gesture, enable holographic visualization and offer completely new insights.

Artificial intelligence is and will remain a hot topic and continue influencing the IT world. IntraFind, a specialist in AI, highlights three trends for text-focused AI and natural language processing (NLP) that will play an important role.

In times of increasing digitization and a steadily growing threat from cyberattacks, stable IT security is an important prerequisite for a functioning and growing business. Unfortunately, studies show that this insight has not yet reached all managing directors and board members, instead their concern is:

Digital commerce is becoming an essential part of the new economy and the digital customer journey more important due to COVID-19. Particularly the retail sector has undergone a major change and been catapulted more than expected into the e-commerce world. In future, this will be accompanied by the challenges of mastering the latest technologies and unleashing the creativity of digital retail to use them in the individual customer journey. Hyper-personalization and micro-moment techniques are therefore considered top priorities for brands in the future of digital commerce.

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) announced the launch of ‘SCMP Research’, a new knowledge-vertical dedicated to providing the latest intelligence and insights on leading industries in China.

According to the software company SynergyTop, 2020 is a decisive year for voice commerce as it offers a new sales channel for merchants and brands who want to sell their services and goods.

AppsFlyer, the global attribution leader, released  the 11th edition of the Performance Index and the 2nd edition of the Growth Index.

The Performance index guides marketers on how media sources are performing, and which show potential for partnership, while the Growth Index examines the diverse ad networks of Southeast Asia (SEA) to determine their rankings.

One of IDC’s recent report, titled ‘Empathy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Becoming an Empathetic Enterprise in the Next Normal’, details how the most digitally mature organizations adapted quicker to challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. IDC highlights what organizations must focus on to become empathetic organizations – using technology to provide empathy at scale in areas of customer conversation, customer journey, customer experience, and customer satisfaction.

Emotions and the subconscious play an important role in purchasing decisions and the use of online services respectively. In the world of advertising, paid social media are those who should manage to keep the user on their platform for as long as possible to maximize profit. Longer usage time leads to more ads seen and that’s the whole logic behind it. Hence, the use of a website or app must create a good feeling and make users want more to spend time there.

Generally, the quality of the content is making users stay longer, the other is easy access, which means corresponding apps must be intuitive to use, too. Since prices are usually so tightly calculated that it is difficult to differentiate based on this factor alone, and the location is irrelevant when being online, the customer experience has become the more important.