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73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.

2017

30 percent of businesses consider the Spark software framework critical to their big data analytics strategies.

2017

50 percent of businesses say data and analytics significantly impacted new entrants launching data and analytics businesses that undermine traditional competitors’ value propositions.

2018

8 percent of businesses say data and analytics have fundamentally changed the nature of industry-wide competition

2018

26 percent of businesses say data and analytics have significantly changed the nature of industry-wide competition.

2018

Analytics leaders are nearly twice as likely as others to report enacting a long-term strategy to respond to changes in core business practices.

This statistic originates from a McKinsey study that highlights how companies excelling in analytics, referred to as “analytics leaders,” are significantly more proactive in aligning their data strategies with their evolving business needs. In contrast to companies that only react to data and analytics changes on an ad hoc basis, these leaders are much more […]

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.

2018

60 percent of businesses believe it is harder to source talent for data and analytics positions than for any other roles

The quote “60 percent of businesses believe it is harder to source talent for data and analytics positions than for any other roles” is accurate and reflects a growing challenge in the industry. This statistic comes from a McKinsey study that highlights the increasing difficulty companies face when trying to hire talent with data and […]

53 percent of CEOs consider themselves the primary leader of their company’s analytics agenda.

2018