The Landscape of
Data & Analytics
Generating Greater
Business Value from
Existing and Incoming Data
Data and analytics today possess few certainties.
First, big data tools are innovating faster than ever
before. Second, its becoming more and more difficult to
keep up with organizations growing amounts of data.
These technologies are becoming the backbone for data tools
cloud Hadoop SQL
NoSQL predictive
analytics
data mining
Big data is not the
created content, nor is
it even its consumption
it is the analysis of all
the data surrounding
and swirling around it.*
Data & Analytics Adoption Timeline
26%
14%
13%
8%
8%
43%
have already
deployed datadriven projects
are still
planning data
implementations
are in the process or pilot
testing data-driven projects
plan to implement over
the next 12 months
considering projects
in the next 13-24 months
are likely to implement but
have no specific timeframe
Where is all the data coming from?
1,000+
<1,000
39%
Transactional
data
Customer
Databases
44%
39%
32%
36%
41%
29%
Emails
35%
25%
1,000+
<1,000
48%
1,000+
<1,000
51%
52%
1,000+
<1,000
53%
1,000+
<1,000
56%
61%
Productivity
Applications
Machine
Generated Data
Balancing Data & Analytics
Benefits and Challenges
Data will assist with
specific business goals
55%
53%
41%
improve
customer
relationships
make the
business more
data-focused
change the way
we organize
operations
47% 60%
52% 48%
36% 45%
B2B
B2B
B2B
B2C
B2C
B2C
...and hopefully solve key challenges
60% 47%
finding
correlations across
multiple disparate
data sources
41%
predicting
customer
behavior
change the way
we organize
operations
With Any New Initiative, Pain Points Arise
93%
of IT executives say
theyve experienced
pain with some datadriven initiatives
Data access/analysis
Data transformation
Data creation/collection
Data migration
84%
38%
17%
13%
13%
of organizations use at
least one solution to secure
their big data initiatives
Bringing Data & Analytics
Goals to Reality
44%
of orgs expect their IT
budget allocated for
data-driven initiatives
to increase over the
next 12 to
18 months
up from 36% in 2015
Top Investments
Data analytics
Data integration
Data visualization
Data mining
Visual dashboards
58%
44%
43%
37%
36%
Average data
spending in the
next 12 months
$7.9M
<1,000 up from $1.6M in 2015
18%
of orgs big data
storage and
analytics tools
are cloud-based
Data Decision-Making
Whos involved in
data-driven decisions?
Big data technology
investment plans
46% Hadoop
1,000+ 52% <1,000 42%
41% Nosql
Enterprise
Integration into
existing infrastructure
Support and services
top IT exec
Conforming to standards
for security/governance
SMB
Ease of use
Integration into existing
infrastructure
IDG Enterprise Data & Analytics Survey 2016
1,000+ 38% <1,000 44%
How Vendors
are Evaluated
Appropriate level
of scalability
45%
53%
43%
CEO
CIO or
It Architect
1,000+ <1,000
$13.9M $4.3M
Support and services
38%
33%
33%
51%
45%
43%
36%
*Source: The Digital Universe of Opportunities: Rich Data and the Increasing Value of the Internet of Things, IDC sponsored by EMC2, April 2014
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