More than 150 zettabytes (150 trillion gigabytes) of data will need analysis by 2025.

2019

• Analytics leaders are nearly twice as likely as others to report enacting a long-term strategy to respond to changes in core business practices.
• 90 percent of the world’s data was created between 2015 and 2016 alone.
• 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.
• 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
• By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
• 55 percent of North American businesses have adopted big data analytics.
• Only 7% of marketers surveyed report that they are currently effectively able to deliver real-time, data-driven marketing engagements across both physical and digital touchpoints.
• Through 2019, 90% of large organizations will have hired a CDO, but only 50% will be considered a success.
• More than 30 percent of businesses say big data and analytics have fundamentally changed business practices in their research and development departments
• 90% of enterprise analytics and business professionals currently say data and analytics are key to their organization’s digital transformation initiatives.