10 Greatest Challenges Preventing Businesses from Capitalizing on Big Data [INFOGRAPHIC]

A research from Tata Consultancy Services among 1.217 companies about how companies invest in big data and derive results from it also revealed the 10 greatest challenges businesses face when implementing a big data strategy. The research revealed that big data is clearly paying off for some companies, and big time in some cases. There are however also a lot of companies that face difficult challenges moving ahead with big data. The below infographic lists the 10 most important challenges.

A research from Tata Consultancy Services among 1.217 companies about how companies invest in big data and derive results from it also revealed the 10 greatest challenges businesses face when implementing a big data strategy. The research revealed that big data is clearly paying off for some companies, and big time in some cases. There are however also a lot of companies that face difficult challenges moving ahead with big data. The below infographic lists the 10 most important challenges. Interesting fact is that most of the challenges are cultural challenges and not so much the technical difficulties of big data.

Source: The Emerging Big Returns on Big Data, A TCS 2013 Global Trend Study

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