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Lynne Schneider - Research Director, Data as a Service & Location and Geospatial Intelligence

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There are two primary ways to buy or trade data in the Data as a Service (DaaS) market – direct sales from a data provider to end users, or via a data marketplace. While large, established information services businesses continue to make direct sales to their customers, many are also participating in data marketplaces. For smaller and emerging providers of DaaS, the rise in data marketplaces has made it simpler for them to package and sell their offerings, and for potential customers to find them. Marketplaces simplify the searching process, providing a variety of sources and types of data, along with a ready group of potential buyers.

What if you discovered oil in your backyard? How would you get it extracted from your property and deliver it to customers? Where would you sell it and what would you charge? If the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data, how does your enterprise leverage the data it already creates and manages to turn what is ‘in your backyard’ into a sustainable revenue stream?