30 percent of businesses consider the Spark software framework critical to their big data analytics strategies.
2017
Source: Forbes
- Data warehouse optimization is considered the most important big data analytics use case, and is considered critical or very important by 70 percent of businesses.
- 98 percent of sales representatives at construction companies that adopt analytics and geographic data reported dramatic decreases in their time frame for providing price quotes.
- Analytics leaders are nearly twice as likely as others to report enacting a long-term strategy to respond to changes in core business practices.
- 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.
- 95 percent of businesses need to manage unstructured data.
- 62 percent of retail businesses see competitive advantages from information and analytics.
- Through 2019, 90% of large organizations will have hired a CDO, but only 50% will be considered a success.
- 90 percent of IT professionals plan to increase spending on BI tools.
- By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
- More than 30 percent of businesses say big data and analytics have fundamentally changed business practices in their research and development departments
