73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.
2017
Source: Forbes
- 70 percent of investment professionals use “alternative data” or plan to do so in the next year.
- By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
- 30 percent of businesses consider the Spark software framework critical to their big data analytics strategies.
- Businesses that use big data saw a profit increase of 8–10 percent.
- By 2025, more than a quarter of all data created will be real-time, with 95% of that data generated by the Internet of Things.
- Customer/social analysis is considered the second most important big data analytics use case, followed by predictive maintenance.
- 26 percent of businesses say data and analytics have significantly changed the nature of industry-wide competition.
- 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.
- By 2025, the amount of the global datasphere subject to data analysis will grow by a factor of 50 to 5.2 zettabytes.
- Through 2019, 90% of large organizations will have hired a CDO, but only 50% will be considered a success.
