Gartner reveals top trends in data and analytics for 2022

Gartner has identified three key areas that it believes data and analytics (D&A) companies should move to implement into their strategy in 2022. "This year's top D&A trends represent business, market and technology dynamics that will help organisations anticipate change and transform uncertainty into opportunity, both of which have come under the purview of the D&A leader," Gartner distinguished research vice president Rita Sallam says. Gartner says the rise of adaptive AI systems, such as AI engineering, drives growth and innovation while coping with fluctuations in global markets, adding that innovations in this area are needed to best utilise D&A. In particular, data management for AI, automated, active metadata-driven approaches and data-sharing competencies that are all founded on data fabrics. Citing the'always share data' trend, Gartner says this proves the value of data sharing as a business-facing key performance indicator by demonstrating that an organisation is achieving effective stakeholder engagement and increasing access to the right data to generate public value.