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.

2019

• By 2025, the amount of the global datasphere subject to data analysis will grow by a factor of 50 to 5.2 zettabytes.
• Analytics leaders are nearly twice as likely as others to report enacting a long-term strategy to respond to changes in core business practices.
• In 2025, the IoT data analyzed and used to change business processes will be as much as all of the data created in 2020.
• More than 150 zettabytes (150 trillion gigabytes) of data will need analysis by 2025.
• Businesses that use big data saw a 10 percent reduction in overall cost.
• 83 percent of enterprise executives say they’ve pursued big data projects to gain a competitive advantage.
• 26 percent of businesses say data and analytics have significantly changed the nature of industry-wide competition.
• Only 16% of organizations can currently say that 75% or more of their employees have access to company data and analytics.
• By 2025, more than a quarter of all data created will be real-time, with 95% of that data generated by the Internet of Things.
• 36 percent of investment professionals use web scraping to derive data.