That is the conclusion of a new study on machine data analytics by 451 Research and sponsored by Logtrust. The report, entitled “The Need for Speed: Machine Data Analytics in 2016-17” found that most organizations currently employ data analytics, and are most frequently using it for IT operations management (cited by 80 percent) and security (cited by 60 percent). Other common use cases include the Internet of Things (cited by 51 percent), big data analytics (cited by 51 percent), fraud analytics (cited by 45 percent) and IT governance/compliance (cited by 34 percent).
When asked what challenges they have faced with achieving hoped-for results with analytics projects, respondents cited infrastructure requirements ( cited by 36 percent), scaling challenges (cited by 33 percent), staffing requirements (cited by 33 percent), slow analytics (cited by 32 percent), expense (cited by 31 percent) and technical challenges (cited by 30 percent).
One of the most important features that respondents said they look for in analytics capabilities is speed, the report notes.
Just how fast is considered ‘fast’? Sixty-nine percent of respondents want machine real-time (within milliseconds) while 51 percent want human real-time (five seconds to five minutes latency), a desire validated in the report by author Jason Stamper, data analyst at 451 Research.
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