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

2017

• 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.
• 83 percent of enterprise executives say they’ve pursued big data projects to gain a competitive advantage.
• The amount of data generated each second in the banking sector will grow 700 percent by 2020.
• More than 150 zettabytes (150 trillion gigabytes) of data will need analysis by 2025.
• Only 16% of organizations can currently say that 75% or more of their employees have access to company data and analytics.
• More than 30 percent of businesses say big data and analytics have fundamentally changed business practices in their research and development departments
• 60 percent of businesses believe it is harder to source talent for data and analytics positions than for any other roles
• In 2025, the IoT data analyzed and used to change business processes will be as much as all of the data created in 2020.
• 29 percent of investment professionals use search trends to derive data.
• 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.