90% of enterprise analytics and business professionals currently say data and analytics are key to their organization’s digital transformation initiatives.
2018
- 70 percent of investment professionals use “alternative data” or plan to do so in the next year.
- By 2025, the amount of the global datasphere subject to data analysis will grow by a factor of 50 to 5.2 zettabytes.
- 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.
- 45 percent of companies run at least some big data workloads in the cloud.
- 95 percent of businesses need to manage unstructured data.
- 55 percent of North American businesses have adopted big data analytics.
- Big data ranks 20th across 33 key technologies when businesses were asked their top technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.
- Nearly 50 percent of businesses say big data and analytics have fundamentally changed business practices in their sales and marketing departments.
- By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
- 8 percent of businesses say data and analytics have fundamentally changed the nature of industry-wide competition
