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For What It’s Worth: A Multi-industry Survey on Current and Expected Use of Big Data Technologies

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Information Systems (EMCIS 2018)

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This article discusses the results of a multi-industry and multi-country survey carried out to understand the needs, requirements, and use of big data and analytics by public and private organizations in decision-making, business processes and emerging business models. In particular, these issues are analyzed in specific industries where big data exploitation may have not only an economic value but also and an impact on social value dimensions such as, e.g., public and personal safety. Furthermore, the survey aims at questioning the characteristics of big data ecosystems in different and specific domains, thus identifying existing or potential barriers to the development of new data-driven industrial sectors along the big data information value chain. Finally, the authors have identified three key challenges (big data efficiency, effectiveness, and accessibility) to classify the survey results that showed low utilization rate of the data collected, lack of right tools and capabilities, the low rate of digital transformation of the companies as the key concerns for the respondents.

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This work was supported by the AEGIS project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 732189. The document reflects only the author’s views and the Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of information contained therein.

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    Elisa Rossi & Cinzia Rubattino

  2. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL-CDM-MTEI-CSI), Lausanne, Switzerland

    Gianluigi Viscusi

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Rossi, E., Rubattino, C., Viscusi, G. (2019). For What It’s Worth: A Multi-industry Survey on Current and Expected Use of Big Data Technologies. In: Themistocleous, M., Rupino da Cunha, P. (eds) Information Systems. EMCIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 341. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11395-7_7

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