This area of research and innovation tackles the main challenges faced by modern enterprises including SMEs, large corporations and government organisations. These challenges are manifested through many facets, however the focus of EBTIC’s work will be on developing technologies that will enable these enterprises to utilise the huge amount of data available to them in order to provide differentiated customer services and business operations. For example, applications that will help in analysing and visualising big data are essential in an era where available data sources are proliferating rapidly rendering current data storage, security, and analysis nadequate for the competitive business environment of today.