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

2017

• Analytics leaders are nearly twice as likely as others to report enacting a long-term strategy to respond to changes in core business practices.
• 50 percent of businesses say data and analytics significantly impacted new entrants launching data and analytics businesses that undermine traditional competitors’ value propositions.
• Big data ranks 20th across 33 key technologies when businesses were asked their top technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.
• Nearly 50 percent of businesses say big data and analytics have fundamentally changed business practices in their sales and marketing departments.
• In 2025, the IoT data analyzed and used to change business processes will be as much as all of the data created in 2020.
• By 2025, 60% of the 163 zettabytes of existing data will be created and managed by enterprise organizations.
• 83 percent of enterprise executives say they’ve pursued big data projects to gain a competitive advantage.
• 60 percent of businesses believe it is harder to source talent for data and analytics positions than for any other roles
• 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.
• Through 2019, 90% of large organizations will have hired a CDO, but only 50% will be considered a success.