- Big data adoption reached 53% in 2017 for all companies interviewed, up from 17% in 2015, with telecom and financial services leading early adopters.
- Reporting, dashboards, advanced visualization end-user “self-service” and data warehousing are the top five technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.
- Data warehouse optimization remains the top use case for big data, followed by customer/social analysis and predictive maintenance.
- Among big data distributions, Cloudera is the most popular, followed by Hortonworks, MAP/R, and Amazon EMR.