People generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day.
2016
Source: IBM
- 30 percent of businesses consider the Spark software framework critical to their big data analytics strategies.
- 53 percent of CEOs consider themselves the primary leader of their company’s analytics agenda.
- By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
- Analytics leaders are nearly twice as likely as others to report enacting a long-term strategy to respond to changes in core business practices.
- People generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day.
- Nearly 50 percent of businesses say big data and analytics have fundamentally changed business practices in their sales and marketing departments.
- 29 percent of investment professionals use search trends to derive data.
- 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.
- Businesses that use big data saw a profit increase of 8–10 percent.
- Big data ranks 20th across 33 key technologies when businesses were asked their top technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.
