Why IT Is Increasing Spending for Data Warehouses
Ante Up
70% of survey respondents said their organization is increasing its data warehouse investment, compared to only 4% whose organizations are decreasing spending for this.
Leading Contributor
72% said their data warehouse is “very important” to their organization’s business operations.
Biggest Challenges of Current Data Warehousing Solution
Ability to scale for projected data and user growth: 43%, Expenses required for maintenance and operations: 38%, Steep costs of upfront purchase: 37%, Difficulties users face in learning about solution: 37%, User complaints about solution being too slow: 33%
Home Bound
86% of those surveyed use an on-premise data warehouse, while only 32% use a cloud-based one.
Prohibitive Perspectives
64% said concerns about data security have kept them from using a cloud-based warehouse, and 26% said it would be too technically complicated to move the data to the cloud.
Partial Commitment
55% of those using a cloud-based data warehouse store no more than one-half of their data there.
Top Perceived Benefits of a Cloud-Based Data Warehouse
Ability to scale on demand: 66%, Less administration overhead: 59%, Reduced cost: 53%, Capability to easily share access to data: 47%, Simple access for business users: 47%
Big Interest
70% of survey respondents said their company is interested in big data, but haven’t yet made any investment into this. Another 16% have made an investment into big data.
Fleeting Knowledge
88% said they do not have easy access to Hadoop expertise, but 93% said they do have easy access to SQL expertise.
