55 percent of North American businesses have adopted big data analytics.
2017
Source: Forbes
- 29 percent of investment professionals use expert networks to derive data.
- Businesses that use big data saw a profit increase of 8–10 percent.
- 53 percent of companies are adopting big data analytics
- Only 7% of marketers surveyed report that they are currently effectively able to deliver real-time, data-driven marketing engagements across both physical and digital touchpoints.
- 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.
- 21 percent of investment professionals use web traffic to derive data.
- Only 16% of organizations can currently say that 75% or more of their employees have access to company data and analytics.
- Businesses that use big data saw a 10 percent reduction in overall cost.
- Customer/social analysis is considered the second most important big data analytics use case, followed by predictive maintenance.
- By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.