73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.

2017

• 62 percent of retail businesses see competitive advantages from information and analytics.
• Big data ranks 20th across 33 key technologies when businesses were asked their top technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.
• 90 percent of the world’s data was created between 2015 and 2016 alone.
• 90 percent of IT professionals plan to increase spending on BI tools.
• 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.
• 30 percent of businesses consider the Spark software framework critical to their big data analytics strategies.
• 59 percent of executives say big data at their company would be improved through artificial intelligence (AI).
• 45 percent of companies run at least some big data workloads in the cloud.
• 53 percent of companies are adopting big data analytics
• Content analytics usage among IT professionals increased from 43 percent to 54 percent between January 2018 and January 2019.