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80% -- share of data teams spending majority of time on data preparation for data and IT leaders (2026)
Nearly 80% of data and IT leaders reported that their teams spend more than half their time preparing data rather than generating insight from it.
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2026
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Informa TechTarget
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https://novadba.com/why-data-teams-spend-time-on-data-preparation/ ↗
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Why data teams spend half their time preparing data
Why data teams spend half their time preparing data
It is nine in the morning, and your data team is not building anything new, they are reconciling. One database engineer is writing yet another one-off query to stitch together customer records that three source systems each define differently, whil…
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Informa TechTarget 2026 Data, AI & Analytics Trends survey of data and IT leaders
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data and IT leaders: 80% share of data teams spending majority of time on data preparation. Source: Informa TechTarget (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/data-teams-half-time-preparation-2026
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