Data

• [New] 2021 will be a year of opportunity to innovate and learn how to use data and technology to support efforts to fight financial crime.
• [New] In the U.S., the new FAA infrastructure will support critical National Airspace System services like air and ground control voice communication, radar, data and flight services.
• [New] The post-COVID - 19 economic environment might make it easier to hire people with some of the critical skills companies will need in the coming years, such as in data science and IoT engineering.
• [New] In the coming years, people will increasingly use wearable devices to track data - including activity data and heartbeat and temperature measurements.
• [New] In the next five years, the world will witness third-generation semiconductor materials spring up in areas such as 5G base stations, new energy vehicles, ultra-high-voltage power grids, and data centers.
• [New] Analytics industry trends will unquestionably have real-time data as one of the main drivers in 2021 and without a doubt, the tech industry will see more of it in action.
• [New] Going into 2021, organizations and governments will use real-time data with live dashboards for quicker reactions.
• [New] The UK's Cabinet Office is overhauling the leadership of digital, data and technology, appointing a new head of the Government Digital Service plus leaders of a Central Digital and Data Office, which it says will act as a new strategic centre for digital, data and technology.
• [New] As we look to 2021, data privacy will be paramount to competitive differentiation as organizations accelerate in the tools and technologies that will transform their businesses and drive revenue.
• [New] With the cloud computing, big data, and remote work trends still in their early stages, investors can expect much more growth ahead for Salesforce in 2021 and beyond.
• [New] According to a 2020 study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Winterberry Group, U.S. marketers spent more than $11.9 billion on third-party audience data last year, up 6.1% from the year before - and we expect the reported growth curve to be even steeper in 2021.
• [New] The demand for cybersecurity jobs will increase manifold and result in 3.5 million unfilled positions by 2021.
• [New] Data from broker Redfin, suggests that in 2021 will see more home sales than any year since 2006, with sales rising ten percent, even faster than the five percent rise in 2020.
• [New] UnitedHealth Group plans to buy Change Healthcare in a $13 billion deal that will combine the health technology company with UnitedHealth's OptumInsight unit to offer software, data analytics, and other behind-the-scenes services for health care organizations.
• [New] Over 60% of G2000 organizations will be digitally dependent by 2021, and almost 80% in some industries by 2023 - leading to a massive increase in the data flow across and between organizations within industry ecosystems.
• [New] Oil-rich Norway is making fast progress in electric mobility thanks to heavy subsidies and is aiming for all new cars to be zero emission by 2025.
• [New] A quarter of organizations will improve business agility by integrating edge data with applications built on cloud platforms by 2024.
• This decade will see the world expect Alternative Data and AI to be harnessed for good, like Financial Inclusion.
• Data on China's overseas lending in 2020 will not be available until 2022 for DSSI-eligible countries, and regional databases are several years from estimating 2020 flows.
• 61% of Canadian companies expect cloud to be their predominant app, data and computing infrastructure within the next five years.
• In the next five years alone, IoT devices are expected to generate over 80 ZB of data according to IDC.

Last updated: 17 January 2021