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- 83 percent of enterprise executives say they’ve pursued big data projects to gain a competitive advantage.
- 29 percent of investment professionals use expert networks to derive data.
- Analytics leaders are nearly twice as likely as others to report enacting a long-term strategy to respond to changes in core business practices.
- 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.
- Customer/social analysis is considered the second most important big data analytics use case, followed by predictive maintenance.
- Businesses that use big data saw a 10 percent reduction in overall cost.
- 21 percent of investment professionals use web traffic to derive data.
- 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.
- 70 percent of investment professionals use “alternative data” or plan to do so in the next year.
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