At Accenture, we work closely with CxOs across all industries to enable and accelerate enterprise transformation. Each CxOhas different reasons driving their Companies have already started to make need to transform. For example, CFOs are strategic decisions about their applications, focused on creating a single version of the but many are struggling to set up the right truth across the enterprise; CHROs are environment for integrating those applications. obsessed with employee experience; and Why? chief supply chain officers are addressing myriad complexities across the value chain, Firstly, most organizations are surrounded by considering geopolitical events. These C-suite semi-structured and unstructured data—from players must integrate—now more than ever social media to machines to sensors and more. In before—to move with the agility that’s fact, 63 percent of the data an average enterprise required to keep pace in the era of total handles today is unstructured.6 A few have enterprise reinvention. The impetus is on acquired specialized applications to handle CIOs and CTOs to be the champions of unstructured data, but many lack the capabilities composable tech by configuring and to make sense of this undecipherable data. And reconfiguring business critical even fewer possess the capabilities, computing applications—while still ensuring power and know-how to combine this big data interoperability. with curated and structured, high-quality datasets to produce meaningful insights or make decisions. In other words, without interoperability, most investments in big data are not delivering full value. Composing for agility in the era of compressed transformation 7