30 percent of businesses consider the Spark software framework critical to their big data analytics strategies.
2017
Source: Forbes
- 62 percent of retail businesses see competitive advantages from information and analytics.
- 21 percent of investment professionals use web traffic to derive data.
- 14 percent of investment professionals use credit card and POS software data to derive data.
- Insights-driven businesses are growing at an average of more than 30% each year, and by 2021, they are predicted to take $1.8 trillion annually from their less-informed peers.
- Customer/social analysis is considered the second most important big data analytics use case, followed by predictive maintenance.
- 59 percent of executives say big data at their company would be improved through artificial intelligence (AI).
- 73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.
- 26 percent of businesses say data and analytics have significantly changed the nature of industry-wide competition.
- By 2025, more than a quarter of all data created will be real-time, with 95% of that data generated by the Internet of Things.
- 79 percent of enterprise executives say that not embracing big data will cause companies to lose competitive position and risk extinction.
