Only 16% of organizations can currently say that 75% or more of their employees have access to company data and analytics.

2018

• 50 percent of businesses say data and analytics significantly impacted new entrants launching data and analytics businesses that undermine traditional competitors’ value propositions.
• By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
• 55 percent of North American businesses have adopted big data analytics.
• 90 percent of IT professionals plan to increase spending on BI tools.
• 62 percent of retail businesses see competitive advantages from information and analytics.
• Only 7% of marketers surveyed report that they are currently effectively able to deliver real-time, data-driven marketing engagements across both physical and digital touchpoints.
• 21 percent of investment professionals use web traffic to derive data.
• 30 percent of businesses consider the Spark software framework critical to their big data analytics strategies.
• 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.
• 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.