73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.
2017
Source: Forbes
- 8 percent of businesses say data and analytics have fundamentally changed the nature of industry-wide competition
- By 2025, the amount of the global datasphere subject to data analysis will grow by a factor of 50 to 5.2 zettabytes.
- 29 percent of investment professionals use expert networks to derive data.
- 45 percent of companies run at least some big data workloads in the cloud.
- 73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.
- The amount of data generated each second in the banking sector will grow 700 percent by 2020.
- More than 30 percent of businesses say big data and analytics have fundamentally changed business practices in their research and development departments
- 90% of enterprise analytics and business professionals currently say data and analytics are key to their organization’s digital transformation initiatives.
- 59 percent of executives say big data at their company would be improved through artificial intelligence (AI).
- 55 percent of North American businesses have adopted big data analytics.