Snippets: Data disconnect

On average it takes 10 minutes to move 65% of CDC data into analytics database

Data disconnect

Organisations using extract, transfer and load (ETL) and Changed Data Capture (CDC) technologies are struggling to keep up with today’s demand for real-time data analysis, negatively affecting business opportunities and efficiency, according to a study conducted by IDC and sponsored by InterSystems. The study on data management challenges impacting the digital economy highlighted the growing need for reliable real-time data analytics in today’s enterprise organisations, with more than 75 per cent of respondents believing that untimely data has inhibited business opportunities and 27 per cent indicating it has negatively affected productivity/agility. Untimely data is also slowing the pace of business, with 54 per cent respondents claiming it limits operational efficiency. 

Looking at where data is languishing, the study revealed that nearly two-thirds of data moved via ETL was at least five days old by the time it reached an analytics database. When it comes to CDC, a real-time data replication technology, the survey revealed that on average it takes 10 minutes or more to move 65 per cent of CDC data into an analytics database.

Connected manufacturing

By 2022, 64 per cent of manufacturers expect to be fully connected compared to just 43 per cent today, according to research by Zebra Technologies Corporation’s 2017 Manufacturing Vision Study on emerging trends shaping industrial manufacturing. Driven by globalisation, competition and rising customer demand for more options and higher quality products, a connected plant floor has become a necessity. Zebra’s survey shows that over the next five years, workers will use a combination of radio frequency identification, wearables, automated systems and other emerging technologies to monitor the physical processes of the plant and enable companies to make decentralised decisions.