Methodology:
Data is from the November 2018 Harvard Business Review (HBR) report titled "An Inflection Point for the Data Driven Enterprise" sponsored by MicroStrategy, Snowflake and Wipro. 799 executives worldwide from various industries were surveyed during August 2018. Respondents were from companies located in Asia-Pacific (24%), Europe (21%), Middle East & Africa (6%), North America (43%), South America (5%) and rest of world (1%) with employees of 499 and fewer (8%), 50-999 (8%), 1,000-9,999 (30%) or 10,000 or more employees (55%). Respondents were drawn from Harvard Business Review's readership (magazine/newsletter readers, customers and HBR.org users). MicroStrategy is a business intelligence company, Snowflake is a data warehouse company built for the cloud and Wipro is an IT company.