The Big Data Movement
The telecommunications sector is outspending other industries in big data investment by a wide margin.
Apart from travel, telecom outspent other industries in Big Data investment last year by a wide margin. Tata Consultancy
Services (TCS) conducted extensive research in 2012 and 2013 to uncover the data illustrated in figure 2.
Source: TCS, 2013
How does this investment translate into profit? Telecommunications is expected to realize a 37.9 percent return on investment, but that’s a middle-of-the-road result—as you can see in figure 3 below, seven other industries are expected to achieve a better ROI.
Source: TCS, 2013
