By 2025, IDC predicts that the total amount of digital data created worldwide will rise to 163 zettabytes, ballooned by the growing number of devices and sensors

2018

• 21 percent of investment professionals use web traffic to derive data.
• 83 percent of enterprise executives say they’ve pursued big data projects to gain a competitive advantage.
• Big data ranks 20th across 33 key technologies when businesses were asked their top technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.
• 29 percent of investment professionals use expert networks to derive data.
• By 2025, IDC predicts that the total amount of digital data created worldwide will rise to 163 zettabytes, ballooned by the growing number of devices and sensors
• 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.
• Businesses that use big data saw a profit increase of 8–10 percent.
• 29 percent of investment professionals use search trends to derive data.
• 95 percent of businesses need to manage unstructured data.