62% of Organizations Expect to Implement Machine Learning to Big Data by 2018

Respondents were asked what they saw as the biggest area of opportunity for Big Data in comparison to traditional systems, with 62% agreeing that they consider real time analysis as the biggest area of opportunity today. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been capturing imaginations in the past year as Facebook announced plans for an army of 1.5 billion AI agents, and a Dutch-led consortium painted "The New Rembrandt" using machine learning. But perhaps equally surprising, enterprises are already looking seriously at machine learning for Big Data, having only made its appearance on the Gartner Hype Cycle in 2015. This development signifies how businesses are understanding the advantage of leveraging and building upon new Big Data technologies to produce valuable business insights.