Gartner Inc., the world’s leading research and advisory company, predicts that by 2023, organizations using blockchain smart contracts will increase overall data quality by 50 percent, and trim data availability by 30 percent.
The net impact is a positive result for data and analytics (D&A) Return on Investment (ROI). The impact of blockchain smart contract adoption on analytical decision making is profound. Gartner noted in a press release that blockchain enhances transparency, speed and granularity of decision making. It also improves the quality of decision making, as its continuous verification makes the data more accurate, reliable and trustworthy.
Governance frameworks for blockchain participation, or the terms and conditions within the smart contract, can dictate the availability of the data generated from the smart contract transaction, from none to limited to unlimited.
“This variable could leave participants in a worse position than if they did not participate in the blockchain smart contract process. As such, an organization’s overall data asset availability would decrease by 30% by 2023,” added Ms. Clougherty Jones.
“When an organization adopts blockchain smart contracts — whether externally imposed or voluntarily adopted — they benefit from the associated increase in data quality, which will increase by 50 percent by 2023,” said Lydia Clougherty Jones, senior research director at Gartner.
Gartner analysts recommend D&A leaders pilot blockchain smart contracts now. Organizations should start deploying them to automate a simple business process, such as non-sensitive data distribution or a simple contract formation for contract performance or management purposes. Then organizations should engage with their affiliates and partners to pilot blockchain smart contracts to automate multiparty contracts within a well-defined ecosystem, such as banking and finance, real estate, insurance, utilities, and entertainment.
“Smart contracts are important and D&A leaders should focus on them because they promise a near certainty of trusted exchange. Once deployed, blockchain smart contracts are immutable and irrevocable through nonmodifiable code, which enforces a binding commitment to do or not do something in the future. Moreover, they eliminate third-party intermediaries (e.g., bankers, escrow agents, and lawyers) and their fees, as smart contracts, perform the intermediary functions automatically,” said Ms. Clougherty Jones.
Gartner clients can learn more in the reports “Predicts 2020: Data and Analytics Strategies — Invest, Influence and Impact” and in “Data and Analytics Leaders Need to Focus on Blockchain Smart Contracts Now.”
Learn more about Gartner’s 2020 Predictions in the Special Report “Predicts 2020: Barriers Fall as Technology Adoption Grows.”
Gartner analysts will provide additional analysis on data and analytics trends at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summits 2020, taking place February 17-18 in Sydney, March 9-11 in London, March 23- 26 in Grapevine, May 19-20 in Sao Paulo, May 26-28 in Tokyo, June 8-9 in Mumbai, June 15-16 in Geneva, and October 27-28 in Frankfurt. Follow news and updates from the events on Twitter using #GartnerDA.
- World’s Leading Research and Advisory Company Gartner Says Blockchain Smart Contracts Can Increase Corporate Overall Data Quality by 50 Percent – January 31, 2020
- Dubai Wants to Clone Crypto Valley in the Desert – January 29, 2020
- The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) to Launch Blockchain-Based, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) – January 29, 2020
- Swiss company Overfuture To Offer Tokenised Equity Crowdfunding (Security Token Offering) – January 29, 2020
- Leading Cryptocurrency Trading Solution Company Algoz to Provide Liquidity London Football Exchanges – January 28, 2020
- Global Commodities Blockchain Trading Platform VAKT Backed For $5m From Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures – January 28, 2020
- Token Taxonomy Workshop – – January 24, 2020
- Deloitte Bullish on Libra Project in New Report – January 22, 2020
- Busted: SEC Charges Blockchain Marketplace Founder Sergii “Sergey” Grybniak for Fraudulent ICO 2017 – January 22, 2020
- DC Blockchain Advocacy Group US Chamber of Digital Commerce Supports Telegram Vs. SEC Case – January 22, 2020
- BIS Forms New Central Bank Think Tank to Assess National Cryptocurrencies – January 22, 2020
- Bank of England Pondering National Cryptocurrency – January 22, 2020
- Infamous Online Gaming Community Clanbase to Relaunch With Blockchain Technology in 2021 – January 21, 2020
- Chainalysis: 2019 Saw More Cryptocurrency Hacks – Total Amount Stolen From Exchanges Dropped To $283 Million – January 21, 2020
- J. Christopher Giancarlo, former Chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission – January 21, 2020
- Ethereum Classic Labs Donates $1 Million to UNICEF Innovation Ventures – January 20, 2020
- Busted: SEC and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey Files Lawsuits Against Fraudulent ICO that raised $30 million – January 17, 2020
- Kenya Issues Second ICO Warning After Investors Lose €24+ Million Euro – January 17, 2020
- Neufund Wraps Tokenised Equity Crowdfunding Series B with Greyp Bikes raising €1.4m EUR – January 17, 2020
- U.S. Lawmakers Pondering “Crypto-Currency Act of 2020” – January 17, 2020
Also published on Medium.
