36 percent of investment professionals use web scraping to derive data.

2019

• 29 percent of investment professionals use search trends to derive data.
• By 2025, 60% of the 163 zettabytes of existing data will be created and managed by enterprise organizations.
• 95 percent of businesses need to manage unstructured data.
• 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.
• 70 percent of investment professionals use “alternative data” or plan to do so in the next year.
• 50 percent of businesses say data and analytics significantly impacted new entrants launching data and analytics businesses that undermine traditional competitors’ value propositions.
• 60 percent of businesses believe it is harder to source talent for data and analytics positions than for any other roles
• 55 percent of North American businesses have adopted big data analytics.
• Big data ranks 20th across 33 key technologies when businesses were asked their top technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.
• Businesses that use big data saw a 10 percent reduction in overall cost.