45 percent of companies run at least some big data workloads in the cloud.

2019

• 14 percent of investment professionals use credit card and POS software data to derive data.
• 95 percent of businesses need to manage unstructured 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.
• 29 percent of investment professionals use expert networks to derive data.
• 55 percent of North American businesses have adopted big data analytics.
• 30 percent of businesses consider the Spark software framework critical to their big data analytics strategies.
• Through 2019, 90% of large organizations will have hired a CDO, but only 50% will be considered a success.
• By 2025, IDC predicts that the total amount of digital data created worldwide will rise to 163 zettabytes, ballooned by the growing number of devices and sensors
• 61 percent of businesses that recognize the effect of data and analytics on their core business practices say their companies either have not responded to these changes or have taken only ad hoc actions rather than developing a comprehensive, long-term strategy for analytics.
• 40 percent of businesses say they need to manage unstructured data on a frequent basis.