In the first quarter of 2014, Infochimps, a CSC Big Data Business, and SSWUG.org surveyed more than 300 IT department em
2014
BIG DATA THROUGH THE EYES OF YOUR IT STAFF
10% 46%
59%
OF RESPONDENTS RATE BIG DATA AS A TOP 5 PRIORITY
OF ORGANIZATIONS HAVE AN ENTERPRISE-WIDE BIG DATA ARCHITECTURE DEFINED
TAKE A DECENTRALIZED APPROACH TO BIG DATA IMPLEMENTATION
TALENT HAS EMERGED AS A KEY ISSUE IN BIG DATA IMPLEMENTATION
86% 77% 74%
MAJOR CHALLENGES IN WORKING WITH BIG DATA
AS BIG DATA TAKES OFF, THE DEMAND FOR DATA SCIENTISTS IS EXPLODING
190,000
FINDING THE RIGHT TALENT
FINDING THE RIGHT TOOLS
TIME
DATA ENGINEER
MACHINE LEARNING SPECIALIST
PROJECTED SHORTFALL IN DATA SCIENTISTS BY 2018 (McKinsey) TO GET ALL THE SKILLS REQUIRED, ORGANIZATIONS MAY NEED TO THINK
STATISTICIAN
D EVO PS ENGINEER
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SPECIALIST
“COMPOSITE DATA SCIENTIST,” COMPOSED OF TEAMS OF INDIVIDUALS
MATHEMATICIAN
HADOOP ENGINEER DATA VISUALIZATION DESIGNER
ORGANIZATIONS ARE POISED TO MOVE FROM DATA EXPLORATION TO DATA EXPLOITATION
50%
29%
7% 13%
BIG DATA DEPLOYED COMPANY-WIDE
SOLUTIONS DEPLOYED IN MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS
INITIAL USE-CASE DEPLOYMENT
DATA EXPLORATION STAGE
OPEN SOURCE IS GAINING WIDER ACCEPTANCE
50%
OF RESPONDENTS ARE PRIORITIZING OPEN SOURCE TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES OVER PROPRIETARY AND LEGACY SOFTWARE
OPEN SOURCE AND WEBSCALE TOOLS RANK 2x AS HIGH AS ORACLE AND 3x AS HIGH AS SAP WHEN IT COMES TO THE “BIG DATA PATH” TECHNOLOGY OF CHOICE
OPEN SOURCE & WEBSCALE TOOLS
ORACLE
SAP
TOP REQUIREMENTS OF BIG DATA SOLUTIONS
#1 #2 #3
EASE OF MANAGEMENT
SPEED TO DEPLOY FLEXIBLE ARCHITECTURE
TWO-WAY TIE
SECURITY
IS THE CLOUD RISK REAL OR MERELY PERCEIVED? PREFERRED OPTIONS
#1
FOR BIG DATA PROJECTS
#2 #3
“TO CLOUD OR NOT TO CLOUD …” MORE THAN
1/3 OF RESPONDENTS
ARE NOT LOCKED IN TO A “PREFERRED” DEPLOYMENT OPTION AND WILL EVALUATE BASED UPON THE ACTUAL USE CASE
INTERNAL DATA CENTER
VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD
PUBLIC CLOUD
In the first quarter of 2014, Infochimps, a CSC Big Data Business, and SSWUG.org surveyed more than 300 IT department employees, 52% of whom were actively involved in a big data project, for this report. Infochimps was acquired by CSC in 2013. The CSC subsidiary delivers open standards-based big data systems with unprecedented speed, scale and flexibility to enterprise companies. With CSC Big Data Platform as a Service, powered by Infochimps, enterprises focus on solving business problems, not on managing complex infrastructure. To learn more about these technologies, go to www.csc.com/big_data.
