36 percent of investment professionals use web scraping to derive data.

2019

• Content analytics usage among IT professionals increased from 43 percent to 54 percent between January 2018 and January 2019.
• 40 percent of businesses say they need to manage unstructured data on a frequent basis.
• In a survey of approximately 700 business professionals, only 15% said their organization is currently very effective in delivering a relevant and reliable customer experience. In the same survey, only 3% of respondents said they are able to act on all of the customer data they collect; 21% say they can act on very little of it.
• 55 percent of North American businesses have adopted big data analytics.
• By 2025, the amount of the global datasphere subject to data analysis will grow by a factor of 50 to 5.2 zettabytes.
• 90 percent of the world’s data was created between 2015 and 2016 alone.
• Data-driven organizations are 23 times more likely to acquire customers, six times as likely to retain customers, and 19 times as likely to be profitable as a result.
• 36 percent of investment professionals use web scraping to derive data.
• Only 16% of organizations can currently say that 75% or more of their employees have access to company data and analytics.
• 26 percent of businesses say data and analytics have significantly changed the nature of industry-wide competition.