73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.
2017
Source: Forbes
- Only 16% of organizations can currently say that 75% or more of their employees have access to company data and analytics.
- 62 percent of retail businesses see competitive advantages from information and analytics.
- Nearly 50 percent of businesses say big data and analytics have fundamentally changed business practices in their sales and marketing departments.
- Customer/social analysis is considered the second most important big data analytics use case, followed by predictive maintenance.
- 53 percent of CEOs consider themselves the primary leader of their company’s analytics agenda.
- 79 percent of enterprise executives say that not embracing big data will cause companies to lose competitive position and risk extinction.
- Analytics leaders are nearly twice as likely as others to report enacting a long-term strategy to respond to changes in core business practices.
- Insights-driven businesses are growing at an average of more than 30% each year, and by 2021, they are predicted to take $1.8 trillion annually from their less-informed peers.
- 50 percent of businesses say data and analytics significantly impacted new entrants launching data and analytics businesses that undermine traditional competitors’ value propositions.
- 53 percent of companies are adopting big data analytics
