55 percent of North American businesses have adopted big data analytics.

2017

• By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
• Content analytics usage among IT professionals increased from 43 percent to 54 percent between January 2018 and January 2019.
• 53 percent of CEOs consider themselves the primary leader of their company’s analytics agenda.
• Businesses that use big data saw a profit increase of 8–10 percent.
• 14 percent of investment professionals use credit card and POS software data to derive data.
• Big data ranks 20th across 33 key technologies when businesses were asked their top technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.
• The amount of data generated each second in the banking sector will grow 700 percent by 2020.
• 61 percent of businesses that recognize the effect of data and analytics on their core business practices say their companies either have not responded to these changes or have taken only ad hoc actions rather than developing a comprehensive, long-term strategy for analytics.
• 40 percent of businesses say they need to manage unstructured data on a frequent basis.
• People generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day.