Content analytics usage among IT professionals increased from 43 percent to 54 percent between January 2018 and January 2019.

2019

• 8 percent of businesses say data and analytics have fundamentally changed the nature of industry-wide competition
• 30 percent of businesses consider the Spark software framework critical to their big data analytics strategies.
• 45 percent of companies run at least some big data workloads in the cloud.
• 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.
• 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
• 14 percent of investment professionals use credit card and POS software data to derive data.
• 61 percent of businesses that recognize the effect of data and analytics on their core business practices say their companies either have not responded to these changes or have taken only ad hoc actions rather than developing a comprehensive, long-term strategy for analytics.
• Customer/social analysis is considered the second most important big data analytics use case, followed by predictive maintenance.
• 83 percent of enterprise executives say they’ve pursued big data projects to gain a competitive advantage.
• 55 percent of North American businesses have adopted big data analytics.