62 percent of retail businesses see competitive advantages from information and analytics.

2018

• 36 percent of investment professionals use web scraping to derive data.
• Only 16% of organizations can currently say that 75% or more of their employees have access to company data and analytics.
• 90 percent of the world’s data was created between 2015 and 2016 alone.
• Content analytics usage among IT professionals increased from 43 percent to 54 percent between January 2018 and January 2019.
• 14 percent of investment professionals use credit card and POS software data to derive data.
• By 2025, the amount of the global datasphere subject to data analysis will grow by a factor of 50 to 5.2 zettabytes.
• Through 2019, 90% of large organizations will have hired a CDO, but only 50% will be considered a success.
• 60 percent of businesses believe it is harder to source talent for data and analytics positions than for any other roles
• 62 percent of retail businesses see competitive advantages from information and analytics.
• Big data ranks 20th across 33 key technologies when businesses were asked their top technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.