PodChats for FutureCIO: Activating data in real-time

PodChats for FutureCIO: Activating data in real-time“Data has become the most important asset of any organization and data and analytics is more critical than ever. New use cases for data to support machine learning, artificial intelligence and analytics are endless. As the rate of change continues, embracing flexibility, agility and adapting to new challenges is a must,” said Donald Feinberg, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner.In today’s PodChats for FutureCIO, we are joined by Deb Dutta, General Manager - Asia Pacific & Japan, DataStax, to share with us how to activate data in real-time.QUESTIONS1.       Some say that enterprises are now able to capture and store just about every type and format of data. What remains a challenge is activating this data. Why is that?a.       Can you cite key technical, operational and process that are hindering this activation of data?2.       What questions are heads of data teams and the office of the CIO missing/not asking when it comes to solving this data activation problem?3.       How do you align data and analytics with business outcomes and digital acceleration?4.       How do you foster cultural changes needed to make the use of data and analytics pervasive to impact the business?5.       Constellation Research principal analyst Dion Hinchcliffe writes that the future belongs to simple, simplified real-time cloud-native data at scale. What needs to happen for enterprises to come closer to this future?6.       For an organisation wanting to become real-time data, what do they need to do?