The opportunity to profit from the intersection of big data and data analytics is huge, but a new study from EMC reports a “rampant scarcity” for the prerequisite skills necessary for a company to capitalize on these opportunities. Only one-third of the companies participating in the EMC Data Science Study–covering the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, India and China–are able to effectively use new data to assist their business decision making, gain competitive advantage, drive productivity growth, yield innovation and reveal customer insights, says the storage giant.
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