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

2018

• 8 percent of businesses say data and analytics have fundamentally changed the nature of industry-wide competition
• 60 percent of businesses believe it is harder to source talent for data and analytics positions than for any other roles
• 53 percent of CEOs consider themselves the primary leader of their company’s analytics agenda.
• 40 percent of businesses say they need to manage unstructured data on a frequent basis.
• The amount of data generated each second in the banking sector will grow 700 percent by 2020.
• The education vertical currently has the lowest adoption of big data among vertical industries, but educators are most likely to say they may use big data in the future.
• 50 percent of businesses say data and analytics significantly impacted new entrants launching data and analytics businesses that undermine traditional competitors’ value propositions.
• 29 percent of investment professionals use search trends to derive data.
• Businesses that use big data saw a 10 percent reduction in overall cost.
• 45 percent of companies run at least some big data workloads in the cloud.