More than 150 zettabytes (150 trillion gigabytes) of data will need analysis by 2025.

2019

• Nearly 50 percent of businesses say big data and analytics have fundamentally changed business practices in their sales and marketing departments.
• Only 16% of organizations can currently say that 75% or more of their employees have access to company data and analytics.
• 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.
• 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.
• 95 percent of businesses need to manage unstructured data.
• 8 percent of businesses say data and analytics have fundamentally changed the nature of industry-wide competition
• By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
• 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.
• 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