Weighing the Opportunity and Risk of Managing Data in Today's Businesses

Data analytics are driving business innovations, but also generating new data management, privacy, governance, and sustainability challenges For organizations, data represents both an opportunity and a risk. On the opportunity side, business leaders understand that analyzing their data can help them gain insights that increase revenue, improve customer service, and reduce costs. And all of that can lead to substantial improvements in the bottom line. On the other hand, managing and securing data can be tremendously challenging.  This just-released InformationWeek survey examined these challenges: