For What It’s Worth: A Multi-industry Survey on Current and Expected Use of Big Data Technologies

Big Data Use and Challenges: Insights from Two Internet-Mediated Surveys

“…In what follows, we are going to detail their specific characteristics and present the main results. It is worth noting that we will focus more on the second survey, providing a summary of first one, being this latter already presented in a former paper [5], to whom we refer the interested reader for further details.…”

“…In particular, we are interested in companies whose use of big data and analytics may have also a social value in terms of, e.g., public and personal safety, along the big data information value chain [4]. It is worth noting that the results of the first surveys have been presented by the authors in [5]-whereas in this paper they are further complemented by the insights from a second survey, eventually reinforcing some of their suggestions for practice. However, the purpose of this paper is mainly exploratory and descriptive, aiming to support further reflections on the use of big data and analytics in organization, thus providing insights that can be eventually developed in further research.…”

“…As discussed in [5], the survey was conducted online on a sample of industries and sectors including, among others, finance and insurance, automotive, information technology (IT), healthcare, research and education (see further details in Table 1). The different groups were selected for their use of big data for creating and capturing not only economic value, but also social value in terms of public safety and security for the final users or customers [5].…”

“…As discussed in [5], the survey was conducted online on a sample of industries and sectors including, among others, finance and insurance, automotive, information technology (IT), healthcare, research and education (see further details in Table 1). The different groups were selected for their use of big data for creating and capturing not only economic value, but also social value in terms of public safety and security for the final users or customers [5]. Then, the survey was carried out from January to March 2017, using multiple channels such as an online questionnaire form (https://www.aegis-bigdata.eu/what-is-the-current-and-expected-use-of-big-data-technologiesa-glimpse-to-our-aegis-questionnaire-results/), face to face, and telephone interviews.…”

“…As to the geographical distribution, as shown by Table 2, all the countries of the partners of the project were covered with additional replies from Portugal, France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, United Kingdom (UK), Spain and, outside Europe, Mexico, Argentina, United States (US). Furthermore, there was also a regular distribution of respondents from small and medium-sized enterprises (~75%) and large entities with more than 1000 employees (~25%) [5]. Generally, while 55.3% of respondents already had a strategy for using big data and analytics, only 34.2% were effectively using them, 35.5% were starting their use, 13.2% were on a planning phase, and only 17.1% had no experience [5].…”