In its Worldwide Big Data and Analytics 2015 Predictions web conference, International Data Corporation (IDC) yesterday hosted the IDC FutureScape, provided organizations with insight and perspective on long-term industry trends along with new themes that may be on the horizon.
The web conference series and accompanying IDC FutureScape reports are designed to help company leaders capitalize on emerging market opportunities and plan for future growth.
The predictions from the IDC FutureScape for Big Data and Analytics are:
Visual data discovery tools will be growing 2.5x faster than rest of the BI market. By 2018 investing in this enabler of end user self-service will become a requirement for all enterprises.
Over the next 5 years spending on cloud-based BDA solutions will grow 3x faster than spending for on-premise solutions. Hybrid on/off premise deployments will become a requirement.
Shortage of skilled staff will persist. In the U.S. alone there will be 181k deep analytics roles in 2018 and 5x that many positions requiring related skills in data management and interpretation.
By 2017 unified data platform architecture will become the foundation of BDA strategy. The unification will occur across information management, analysis, and search technology.
Growth in applications incorporating advanced and predictive analytics, including machine learning, will accelerate in 2015. These apps will grow 65% faster than apps without predictive functionality.
70% of large organizations already purchase external data and 100% will do so by 2019. In parallel more organizations will begin to monetize their data by selling them or providing Value Added Content.
Adoption of technology to continuously analyze streams of events will accelerate in 2015 as it is applied to IoT analytics – which is expected to grow at a 5-year CAGR of 30%.
Decision management platforms will expand at a CAGR of 60% through 2019 in response to the need for greater consistency in decision making and decision making process knowledge retention.
Rich media (video, audio, image) analytics will at least triple in 2015 and emerge as the key driver for BDA technology investment.
By 2018 half of all consumers will interact with services based on cognitive computing on a regular basis.
“Leading organizations are changing how they measure their operations, interactions with customers, and resource allocations,” said Dan Vesset program VP for Business Analytics and Big Data research. “Faster access to more relevant data and constant experimentation is creating a further gap between leaders and the rest of the organizations. It is also creating new challenges for IT and business leaders tasked with their organization’s big data and analytics strategy and execution.”
The IDC FutureScape report that this web conference is based on will be published and available within the next 24 hours.
IDC FutureScapes are used to shape IT strategy and planning for the enterprise by providing a basic framework for evaluating IT initiatives in terms of their value to business strategy now and in the foreseeable future.