Through 2019, 90% of large organizations will have hired a CDO, but only 50% will be considered a success.

2017

• 90 percent of the world’s data was created between 2015 and 2016 alone.
• Only 16% of organizations can currently say that 75% or more of their employees have access to company data and analytics.
• 79 percent of enterprise executives say that not embracing big data will cause companies to lose competitive position and risk extinction.
• 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.
• 70 percent of investment professionals use “alternative data” or plan to do so in the next year.
• 53 percent of companies are adopting big data analytics
• People generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day.
• 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.
• Big data ranks 20th across 33 key technologies when businesses were asked their top technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.
• By 2025, the amount of the global datasphere subject to data analysis will grow by a factor of 50 to 5.2 zettabytes.