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Survey Finds 49% of Large Companies Implementing Big Data Solutions

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Teena Maddox recently wrote in ZDnet, “Tech Pro Research conducted a survey in 2015 to find out how companies are using big data and the IoT. The topic was revisited in January 2016, in a new survey, to find out what has changed in this fast-evolving landscape. In this year’s follow-up survey, Tech Pro Research looked at the same concepts as in 2015, including how what progress — or pitfalls — have been experienced using the IoT to collect data. Topics covered include: (1) IoT collection of marketplace data. (2) IoT collection of operations data. (3) IoT budgets and employee staffing numbers. (4) Data security. (5) Benefits and drawbacks of IoT data collection.”

Maddox goes on, “The first objective was to assess where big data is in use by assessing where implementations have been conducted. The survey found that 29 percent have deployed a big data solution, while another 61 percent have not. These are approximately the same figures as last year. Company size matters, with the largest organizations much more likely to have undertaken a big data implementation than smaller organizations. In fact, respondents from companies with 1,000 or more employees have implemented big data nearly 1.5 times more often than those which have not (49% versus 35%), whereas only about one-fifth of smaller companies have put big data into place. Three-quarters of these organizations have no big data solution.”

She continues, “Region also mattered. Respondents whose organizations are in the Asia-Pacific region more often than not reported their organization had undergone a big data implementation — 19 percent higher than Europe, the second highest ranking. Conversely, big data is rare in Central/South America.”

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