Beauhurst has released its 2021 report on high-growth businesses in London and the overall picture is generally positive despite a year of COVID-19. In their first report in 2019, Beauhurst showed London accounted for 30% of high-growth UK companies but this rose to 33% last year and has remained steady since then. Beauhurst counts 10,781 active, “ambitious” companies in … [Read more...] about London’s high-growth businesses hold steady says Beauhurst
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Internet of Things Statistics
Finding “reliable” data about the installed base of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, market size and forecasts is not easy and can be expensive if you have to buy a commercial market report. However, there is quite a bit of free data out there which I have collated here. Creating IoT stats is notoriously difficult depending on accuracy of models, assumptions and definitions. … [Read more...] about Internet of Things Statistics
Global IT spending to reach $4 trillion in 2021 says Gartner
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.1 trillion in 2021, an increase of 8.4% from 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. The source of funds for new digital business initiatives will more frequently come from business departments outside IT and charged as a cost of revenue or cost of goods sold (COGS). “IT no longer just supports corporate operations … [Read more...] about Global IT spending to reach $4 trillion in 2021 says Gartner
DCMS report outlines framework for increasing data sharing across UK economy
The UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has released a report ("Increasing Access to Data Across the Economy") from Frontier Economics with advice from Professor Diane Coyle (co-director of Cambridge Bennett Institute) which outlines a framework to help DCMS prioritise potential interventions to increase the availability of data across the UK economy. … [Read more...] about DCMS report outlines framework for increasing data sharing across UK economy
Gartner releases 2021 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms
Gartner has released the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms Gartner lists 6 companies in the Leaders 2021 quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms: SAS, IBM, Dataiku, MathWorks, TIBCO Software and Databricks. Commenting on the rise of some of the internet giants into this space, Gartner believes: “The long-expected gigantic … [Read more...] about Gartner releases 2021 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms