90% of enterprise analytics and business professionals currently say data and analytics are key to their organization’s digital transformation initiatives.
2018
- 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.
- 70 percent of investment professionals use “alternative data” or plan to do so in the next year.
- 14 percent of investment professionals use credit card and POS software data to derive data.
- 45 percent of companies run at least some big data workloads in the cloud.
- 95 percent of businesses need to manage unstructured data.
- 73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.
- In 2025, the IoT data analyzed and used to change business processes will be as much as all of the data created in 2020.
- By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
- Only 16% of organizations can currently say that 75% or more of their employees have access to company data and analytics.
- 60 percent of businesses believe it is harder to source talent for data and analytics positions than for any other roles
