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Hadoop Becomes Mainstream Across the Enterprise

Business Intelligence Hadoop Becomes Mainstream Across the Enterprise Nearly half the respondents to a new survey report that they are attaining tangible business value from their Hadoop investments. Hadoop Use Of the organizations surveyed, 71% are using Hadoop now, but those that aren’t using Hadoop plan on doing so soon: 8% within six months, 7% […]

Written By: Michael Vizard

Oct 6, 2015

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Hadoop Becomes Mainstream Across the Enterprise

Nearly half the respondents to a new survey report that they are attaining tangible business value from their Hadoop investments.

Hadoop Use

Of the organizations surveyed, 71% are using Hadoop now, but those that aren’t using Hadoop plan on doing so soon: 8% within six months, 7% within six to 12 months, and 15% within a year or more.

Hadoop Perceptions

Well over half (62%) of the respondents view the role of Hadoop in their organizations as either strategic (47%) or game-changing (15%).

Drivers of Hadoop Adoption

IT is the primary driver of Hadoop adoption in organizations currently using the technology (55%) and those planning on using it in the future (54%). Just 12% of surveyed organizations that adopted Hadoop did so because of executive mandates.

State of Hadoop Adoption

More than half of the respondents (56%) are still in the early stages of Hadoop deployment, with 25 nodes or fewer, while 30% have more than 50 nodes in place.

Hadoop Deployment Plans

When asked about their plans for Hadoop in the next 3 months, 76% of the respondents that use Hadoop expressed intentions to do more, 21% said they plan on doing the same and only 3% are cutting back.

Reasons for Adopting Hadoop

More than a third (37%) cited scale-out needs, but only 17% pointed to cost savings. Other reasons for adoption include new applications (19%), revenue generation (14%) and curiosity (8%).

Hadoop Deployment Scenarios

A full 74% of organizations that have deployed Hadoop use it for ETL (extract, transform, load), 62% for data science and 65% for BI.

Fate of the Enterprise Data Warehouse

Well over half (60%) of the organizations see Hadoop as either partially (40%) or completely (20%) replacing the enterprise data warehouse. The remaining 40% see Hadoop as augmenting the data warehouse.

Preferred Visualization Tools

In companies that use Hadoop, Tableau (51%) is the leading BI tool, followed by Excel (45%), Business Objects (20%), and SAS Institute and SAP (16% each).

ROI From Hadoop

Close to half (49%) of the organizations surveyed have seen tangible value that they attribute to Hadoop. Another 45% have not yet achieved tangible value, but remain hopeful. Only 6% hold a pessimistic position.

Vertical Industry Adoption

Online companies are ahead of other industries in Hadoop maturity, with 86% ranking their maturity as high (37%) or medium (47%). Manufacturing and consulting rank second and third; telecommunications, financial services and health care are at the bottom of the list.

Biggest Hadoop Challenge

A full 61% of the organizations that are planning on using Hadoop in the future and 66% that have already deployed Hadoop cited skill sets as their biggest challenge.

Biggest Beneficiaries of Hadoop

Slightly more than half the respondents (52%) view marketing and sales as the biggest beneficiaries from big data, followed by operations (35%).

Michael Vizard

Michael Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist, with nearly 30 years of experience writing and editing about enterprise IT issues. He is a writer for publications including Programmableweb, IT Business Edge, CIOinsight, Channel Insider and UBM Tech. He formerly was editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise, where he launched the company’s custom content division, and has also served as editor in chief for CRN and InfoWorld. He also has held editorial positions at PC Week, Computerworld and Digital Review.

Hadoop Becomes Mainstream Across the Enterprise

Michael Vizard

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