The majority data professionals have no plans to deploy big data analytics even beyond 2013, as they simply do not see the need for it, according to a new survey.
The study, by TheInfoPro, shows that 56% of respondents indicated they will not be deploying big data analytics applications. Half of those surveyed were data professionals at the analyst level; the other half comprised IT managers, vice presidents and chief information officers.
Survey respondents with no plans to roll out big data analytics software said doing so requires a specific business case, and they could not see one, according to Marco Coulter, managing director of TheInfoPro’s Cloud Computing Practice.
Coulter added: “IT workers went around to their various business units to ask if anyone would like them to deploy a big data application, and they couldn’t find any takers. If you can’t find the business case or the application, then it just becomes a technology looking for something to do.”
Coulter said those companies rolling out big data analytics tend to be in the financial services and healthcare arena, where great amounts of data can be boiled down to reveal trends and best practices.
