83 percent of enterprise executives say they’ve pursued big data projects to gain a competitive advantage.
2018
Source: Forbes
- 59 percent of executives say big data at their company would be improved through artificial intelligence (AI).
- 60 percent of businesses believe it is harder to source talent for data and analytics positions than for any other roles
- 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.
- By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
- 95 percent of businesses need to manage unstructured data.
- The education vertical currently has the lowest adoption of big data among vertical industries, but educators are most likely to say they may use big data in the future.
- Customer/social analysis is considered the second most important big data analytics use case, followed by predictive maintenance.
- Through 2019, 90% of large organizations will have hired a CDO, but only 50% will be considered a success.
- By 2025, 60% of the 163 zettabytes of existing data will be created and managed by enterprise organizations.
- Businesses that use big data saw a profit increase of 8–10 percent.
