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RESEARCH
ANALYSIS
TRENDS

Focus on security and governance issues

potentially hiding the opportunities offered

Information is – and always has been - the lifeblood of • 36% of the data is still hosted on-premises, 19% is
organizations and the foundation for critical decision- hosted on a public cloud and 18% on private cloud.
making, but it is more important than ever in today’s
business environment. • The nature of the data collected by these

organizations has considerably changed – with
The challenge companies are facing is that information
is still commonly stored in various systems including 31% being tabular/structured and the remainder
the cloud, making it hard for them to leverage it as a being non-tabular/semi structured or unstructured
keyway to create more value. data. Of the latter, are 18% text data and the rest
evenly distributed across images/video, machine
A new study from Forrester Consulting, commissioned generated data, streaming data, and others
by Oracle, evaluates the state of data management
strategy, specifically in organizations across Asia • Public sector and retail show low data strategy
Pacific (AP) and Europe and Middle East markets. The maturity: 34% of public sector and healthcare
study, entitled Moving the Needle: Data Management organizations have an incomplete data strategy.
for the Multi-Hybrid Age of IT, revealed that although
82% of the senior technology decision makers Han Chung Heng, Senior Vice President, Oracle
surveyed recognize that investing in the right data Systems, JAPAC and EMEA said, “Organizations in
management strategy will lead to better business Asia Pacific are making strong progress in terms of
outcomes, 73% admit that they have disparate and unifying data sources and getting on top of data
siloed data strategies that are stopping them from security and governance requirements. But the study
providing business stakeholders with the data they also reveals that their intense focus on these areas
need. may be holding them back from realizing some of the
benefits of multi-hybrid cloud they need right now
Further key findings include: around providing access to unique capabilities and
supporting diversification. In fact, only a third of
companies in JAPAC appear focused on this aspect of

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