Dive Brief:
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Seclore's recent survey of top IT investment priorities in 2015 for CIOs found that business intelligence and data analytics were the clear winners, followed by infrastructure and data centers, mobile technologies, and enterprise resource planning.
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The survey comes with more good news: the Big Data initiatives companies say they plan to invest in are expected to create 1.9 million IT jobs.
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50% of firms surveyed said they will invest in Big Data projects this year.
Dive Insight:
The widespread interest in BI and analytics doesn’t come as a surprise. An earlier survey conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs on behalf of BSA/The Software Alliance found data analytics is spurring innovation and insight across companies of all sizes.
“It's not just technology companies that are taking advantage of data tools to innovate and grow—it's companies of all types and sizes across the entire economy,” said Victoria Espinel, president and CEO of BSA/The Software Alliance. "They are using data to find insights, answers and innovative solutions to problems large and small.”