Only 16% of organizations can currently say that 75% or more of their employees have access to company data and analytics.

2018

• People generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day.
• 98 percent of sales representatives at construction companies that adopt analytics and geographic data reported dramatic decreases in their time frame for providing price quotes.
• Only 16% of organizations can currently say that 75% or more of their employees have access to company data and analytics.
• 29 percent of investment professionals use search trends to derive data.
• 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.
• 73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.
• 40 percent of businesses say they need to manage unstructured data on a frequent basis.
• 90 percent of the world’s data was created between 2015 and 2016 alone.
• 59 percent of executives say big data at their company would be improved through artificial intelligence (AI).
• 26 percent of businesses say data and analytics have significantly changed the nature of industry-wide competition.