With Christmas just around the corner, according to a new report Australian retailers are leveraging detailed data analytics and business intelligence software to improve customer engagement and shopping experiences as the top strategic priorities this year.

Australian agribusiness producers are increasing their use of technologies and data analytics to better manage market and climate volatility and improve agricultural efficiency, financial performance and boost yield. Here we explore their challenges and how business intelligence and analytics can deliver fresh insights.

Building a data-driven enterprise is not just about encouraging the use of data in decision-making. This new Gartner report outlines how data and analytics leaders must lead development of the correct competencies and rebalance work to be consistent with their enterprise's ambitions for generating information value.