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

2018

• 36 percent of investment professionals use web scraping to derive data.
• The amount of data generated each second in the banking sector will grow 700 percent by 2020.
• Data-driven organizations are 23 times more likely to acquire customers, six times as likely to retain customers, and 19 times as likely to be profitable as a result.
• 73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.
• Only 16% of organizations can currently say that 75% or more of their employees have access to company data and analytics.
• 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.
• 53 percent of CEOs consider themselves the primary leader of their company’s analytics agenda.
• 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.
• The number of IT professionals using descriptive and predictive analytics grew from the mid-40th percentile to high 60th percentile between January 2018 and January 2019.
• The big data software market was worth $31 billion in 2018, growing 14 percent from the year before.