Press release No. 305 of 1 September 2017
WIESBADEN – In 2015, 6% of the German enterprises with 10 or more persons employed performed big data analysis. To coincide with the International Consumer Electronics Fair (IFA) in Berlin, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that large enterprises used big data more frequently than smaller sized enterprises. The proportion of large enterprises with 250 or more persons employed was 17%, while that of medium-sized enterprises (50 to 249 persons employed) was 9%. In small enterprises (10 to 49 persons employed), big data were used even less frequently (5%).