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Agenda
Study Overview
Big Data Initiative
Data Trends & Performance
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Respondents Are Primarily Manufacturers or Retailers
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Respondents Are Spread Across Discrete,
Process, Retail and Other Industries
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Respondents Work at Companies with an
Average of 14K Employees and $3B Revenue
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Respondents Primarily Work in
Supply Chain, Sales/Marketing or IT Roles
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The Most Common Respondent Role Is
Head of the Supply Chain Team
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Agenda
Study Overview
Big Data Initiative
Data Trends & Performance
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Most Respondents Are at Least Somewhat
Familiar with “Big Data”
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Over Half See Big Data as an OPPORTUNITY,
Especially Manufacturers, Those with Higher Revenue
and Those with a Big Data Initiative in Place
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Why Big Data Is an “Opportunity”
(Volunteered Responses)
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Why Big Data Is a “Problem”
(Volunteered Responses)
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Nearly One-Fifth Have a Big Data Initiative
and One-Quarter Plan to Have One
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Manufacturers, Those with Higher Revenue,
Those in a Discrete Industry and Those More Familiar with
Big Data Are More Likely to Have a Big Data Initiative
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Big Data Initiative Descriptions
(Volunteered Responses)
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IT Tends to Lead the Big Data Initiative,
Followed by a Multi-Discipline Team
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Top Techniques for Managing Big Data
Include Better Tools, Managed Services and
Predictive Analytics
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Top IT Systems to Benefit from Big Data
Strategies Include Demand Planning, Production Planning,
and Order Management
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Those with a Big Data Initiative Report That Production and
Demand Planning Are Most Likely to Benefit from Big Data
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Final Thoughts About Big Data
(Volunteered Responses)
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Agenda
Study Overview
Big Data Initiative
Data Trends & Performance
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Over One-Quarter See the Ability to Use Data
as Among the Top Elements of Business Pain
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Data Usage Is Bigger “Pain” for Retailers, Those with
Higher Revenue and Those Not in a Supply Chain Role
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One-Quarter Consider Big Data to be
Among the Top 3 Supply Chain Trends
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Big Data Is Seen as Bigger Trend by
Manufacturers, Those with Higher Revenue, Those with a
Big Data Initiative and Those More Familiar with Big Data
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Product Traceability and Supply Chain Visibility
Are Most Important Types of Data
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Product Traceability and Supply Chain Visibility
Are the Best Used Types of Data
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Product Traceability and Supply Chain Visibility Have
Largest Gap in Performance Relative to Importance
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Opportunity with Types of Data Lies with
Geo-Location/Mapping, Internet of Things and Mobile Apps
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Those with Big Data Initiative Are Better Able to
Use Over Half of the Types of Data Asked About
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Among Those with a Big Data Initiative,
Greatest Performance Gaps Are with Product Traceability
and Sentiment Data from Social Media
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Among Those with a Big Data Initiative, Opportunity with Types
of Data Lies with Geo-Location/Mapping, Internet of Things,
Mobile Apps and Unstructured Data
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One-Quarter of Those with a Big Data Initiative
Have a Database That Equals a Petabyte
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12% Have a ERP Live Instance That Is 6+ Terabytes;
10% Have 11+ Unique IT Systems