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IT Trends Survey 2025

We’re offering you the chance to win one of 20 £20 Amazon vouchers by taking part in Lifeline IT’s short survey all about data.

On average, companies hold vast amounts of data that has been collected over years, even decades. This data can contain a wealth of information about an organisation, its customers and how the company is performing, as well as give insights into sales trends and future growth predictions.

We want to know how you manage electronic data in the work environment via this short questionnaire. Simply answer the following questions to be entered into a prize draw to be one of the 20 lucky winners.

Survey 2025

1. What sector do you work in?

Which Sector

2. What percentage of your data is stored electronically (i.e. not hard paper copies)?

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3. How far back does your data go (by data we mean all electronic documents, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, graphics, photos, videos etc.)?

Age of Data

4. As an approximate guess, which of the following documents do you think your company holds the most of?

Main Data Type

(Structured data - a system that stores data in an organised way, similar to a spreadsheet. These are often known as SQL databases)

5. All companies have a statutory obligation to keep accounting/financial records. With the exception of accounting and finance, does your organisation have a statutory obligation to keep its data? (i.e. is there a legal reason why you need to keep data records)?

Statutory Obligation

6. If you answered no to question 5, why do you keep data? Pick the statement you agree with most.

Why Data Kept

7. Do you do any ‘slicing and dicing’ of your data to analyse it and give you insights?

Slicing and Dicing

8. Are you aware of business intelligence tools (such as Power BI and Tableau) that can analyse your data?

BI Tools Known

9. If you answered yes to question 7, how do you analyse your data?

How Data is Analysed

10. If you answered no to question 7, why have you never analysed your data?

Why Never Analysed Data

11. Do you ever ‘clean’ your data. ‘Cleaning’ data can include removing duplicates of documents, updating historical information, simplifying categories (for example, having one category for blue garments, rather than several different categories for different shades of blue).

Data Cleaned

12. How quickly do you think the data you hold becomes out of date/obsolete?

Speed of Data Obsolecence

13. Where do you store the majority of your data?

Where is Data Stored

There are no more questions. Please enter the prize draw to win one of twenty £20 Amazon vouchers. Just provide your name and email address so we can contact you if you are one of the winners. Don't forget to click "Send Responses"! Your data will not be shared outside of Lifeline IT.

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