55 percent of North American businesses have adopted big data analytics.
2017
Source: Forbes
- People generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day.
- 59 percent of executives say big data at their company would be improved through artificial intelligence (AI).
- 90 percent of the world’s data was created between 2015 and 2016 alone.
- 95 percent of businesses need to manage unstructured data.
- Customer/social analysis is considered the second most important big data analytics use case, followed by predictive maintenance.
- Through 2019, 90% of large organizations will have hired a CDO, but only 50% will be considered a success.
- Businesses that use big data saw a profit increase of 8–10 percent.
- 60 percent of businesses believe it is harder to source talent for data and analytics positions than for any other roles
- 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.
- Only 16% of organizations can currently say that 75% or more of their employees have access to company data and analytics.
