53 percent of CEOs consider themselves the primary leader of their company’s analytics agenda.

2018

• 55 percent of North American businesses have adopted big data analytics.
• By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
• The big data software market was worth $31 billion in 2018, growing 14 percent from the year before.
• 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.
• Big data ranks 20th across 33 key technologies when businesses were asked their top technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.
• 73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.
• 36 percent of investment professionals use web scraping to derive data.
• 53 percent of companies are adopting big data analytics
• More than 30 percent of businesses say big data and analytics have fundamentally changed business practices in their research and development departments
• 62 percent of retail businesses see competitive advantages from information and analytics.