53 percent of CEOs consider themselves the primary leader of their company’s analytics agenda.

2018

• 30 percent of businesses consider the Spark software framework critical to their big data analytics strategies.
• The education vertical currently has the lowest adoption of big data among vertical industries, but educators are most likely to say they may use big data in the future.
• More than 30 percent of businesses say big data and analytics have fundamentally changed business practices in their research and development departments
• Data warehouse optimization is considered the most important big data analytics use case, and is considered critical or very important by 70 percent of businesses.
• Only 16% of organizations can currently say that 75% or more of their employees have access to company data and analytics.
• 70 percent of investment professionals use “alternative data” or plan to do so in the next year.
• Nearly 50 percent of businesses say big data and analytics have fundamentally changed business practices in their sales and marketing departments.
• Big data ranks 20th across 33 key technologies when businesses were asked their top technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.
• The number of IT professionals using descriptive and predictive analytics grew from the mid-40th percentile to high 60th percentile between January 2018 and January 2019.
• 26 percent of businesses say data and analytics have significantly changed the nature of industry-wide competition.