By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
2017
- 95 percent of businesses need to manage unstructured data.
- By 2025, IDC predicts that the total amount of digital data created worldwide will rise to 163 zettabytes, ballooned by the growing number of devices and sensors
- 60 percent of businesses believe it is harder to source talent for data and analytics positions than for any other roles
- By 2025, 60% of the 163 zettabytes of existing data will be created and managed by enterprise organizations.
- 55 percent of North American businesses have adopted big data analytics.
- The worldwide big data market is projected to grow from $42 billion in 2018 to $103 billion in 2027.
- 90 percent of IT professionals plan to increase spending on BI tools.
- In a survey of approximately 700 business professionals, only 15% said their organization is currently very effective in delivering a relevant and reliable customer experience. In the same survey, only 3% of respondents said they are able to act on all of the customer data they collect; 21% say they can act on very little of it.
- Customer/social analysis is considered the second most important big data analytics use case, followed by predictive maintenance.
- 70 percent of investment professionals use “alternative data” or plan to do so in the next year.
