{"id":12817,"date":"2025-11-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=12817"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:38:10","slug":"data-analytics-trends-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/au\/news\/stories\/data-analytics-trends-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian and New Zealand Technical Leaders Say Data Overhaul Is Necessary for AI Strategies to Succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Up to 83 per cent of Australian business leaders say they\u2019re under growing pressure to drive business value with data. Yet Salesforce\u2019s new State of Data and Analytics<\/em><\/a> report reveals their biggest hurdle is still incomplete, out-of-date, or poor-quality data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chasm between businesses\u2019 data demands and their data realities becomes more problematic in the agentic AI <\/a>era. While business leaders are eager to use AI for insights and productivity, their technical counterparts worry a new approach to data and analytics is needed. In fact, 88 per cent of Australian and 89 per cent of New Zealand data and analytics leaders say their data strategies need a complete overhaul before their AI ambitions can succeed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To close the gap, savvy technical leaders are focusing on the fundamentals: timely, context-rich data, stronger governance and zero copy<\/a> architectures that unlock trapped, distributed data regardless of where it resides. On their journey to becoming agentic enterprises<\/a>, they\u2019re also embracing emerging solutions like agentic analytics, that bring reliable insights into the flow of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This report should deliver a wake up call to Australian and New Zealand business leaders: AI success hinges on data preparedness.<\/p>\nJustin Tauber,\u00a0GM of Agentic Technology, Trust & Adoption at Salesforce ANZ<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/strong>Our businesses recognise the need to update and overhaul data strategies before AI can succeed, and there is clear recognition that too often a businesses most valuable insights are trapped in inaccessible silos,\u201d continued Tauber.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is why it\u2019s pleasing to see significant momentum to resolve these challenges, with 60 per cent of Australian organisations already adopting zero copy data integration to unlock trapped data. By providing these unified, trusted data foundations, we are enabling Australian and New Zealand businesses to ensure their AI efforts move confidently from pilot to powerful, high-impact business execution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key data from the report: <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Existing data foundations strain to support business ambitions.<\/strong>
As many as 58 per cent for Australian leaders and 64 per cent of those in New Zealand describe their organisations as data-driven. But just as many – up to  60 per cent of Australian data and analytics leaders –  say their companies struggle to drive business priorities with data, exposing a gap between data maturity perceptions and reality:<\/p>\n\n\n\n