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Second Annual Apache Flink Survey Reveals Enterprises Are "All-In" on Stream Processing: 87 Percent Plan to Deploy More Streaming Apps in 2018BERLIN and SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enterprises are investing heavily in stream processing technology, according to the second annual Apache Flink® user survey data Artisans announced today: the vast majority (87 percent) of organizations surveyed are planning to deploy more applications powered by Apache Flink software in 2018. Of dozens of new application types developers are building or planning to build, machine learning (64 percent) both for model scoring (34 percent) and model training (30 percent), anomaly detection/system monitoring (27 percent) and business intelligence/reporting (25 percent) are the most popular, followed by recommendation/decisioning engines (22 percent) and security/fraud detection (19 percent), to round out the top five. Most respondents (70 percent) say their team or department is growing and hiring in 2018. Nearly as many (59 percent) expect their team or departmental budget to increase. Drawing on insights from 217 IT leaders, software engineers, application developers, and data/systems architects from 28 countries, the survey shows that the ability to react to data in the moment is becoming a top priority among enterprises of all sizes, from small organizations earning under $1 million in annual sales (10 percent of respondents) to very large enterprises with over $1 billion in earnings (18 percent of respondents). By adopting Flink and a data streaming architecture, enterprises can get insights from their data in milliseconds. Current and Future Use
The volume of events is expected to grow exponentially as organizations implement more live data applications in the coming years. Of those who are planning to deploy more Flink applications in 2018:
Apache Flink’s streaming execution model can be used for processing both continuous (streaming) datasets and static (finite or batch) datasets, to cover a broad range of data processing use cases within a single platform. Today, 46 percent of respondents use Flink only for continuous (streaming) data, while 47 percent use it for a mixture of continuous data and static (finite) datasets, and six percent use it ony for static datasets. “This year’s survey presents clear evidence that stream processing is becoming widely adopted across enterprises of all sizes and in a variety of industries outside of technology, with financial services, insurance, real estate and telecommunications leading the pack,” said Kostas Tzoumas, co-founder and CEO of data Artisans and a PMC member of Apache Flink. “The market is expected to reach upwards of $13 billion USD by 20211, and we’re seeing a range of new applications being put into production, including machine learning, security and fraud detection, systems monitoring and Internet of Things. We are privileged to be part of such a vibrant community, and data Artisans is committed to ensuring Flink is constantly evolving to meet future use cases, and that we are providing the training, services, and support infrastructure to enable users to maximize the full potential of their data applications.” Key Benefits
Apache Flink has also been credited with driving tangible business benefits that transcend the realm of the IT team by accelerating the innovation cycle, helping to keep systems up and running, and boosting revenue, areas that will likely increase as companies expand their use of live data applications:
Satisfaction and Areas of Focus and Development
Apache Flink is among the fastest-growing Apache Software Foundation projects. As more companies adopt and configure Flink to their organization’s specific needs, more user support will be needed. The top requests for new features or developments among the survey respondents were additional documentation, programming guides, and resources for getting started (55 percent); better tooling for non-engineering users (43 percent); and more support for programming languages beyond Java, Scala, and SQL (34 percent). 1 Streaming Analytics by Market Type Report, MarketsandMarkets, July 2016 About the Survey Out of 28 countries, respondents were most often from the United States (24 percent), China (13 percent), and Germany (12 percent). Fifty seven percent worked at organizations with 100-9,999 employees, one-third at organizations with up to 999 employees, and 14 percent worked for organizations 10,000 or more employees. One-third of the organizations had annual sales of $1-100M, nearly two-fifths (18 percent) top $1B in annual sales, while 10 percent earned under $1M and eight percent earned between $100-500M. About data Artisans Backed by Intel Capital, b-to-v Partners, and Tengelmann Ventures, data Artisans is based in Berlin, Germany with an office in San Francisco, Calif. For more information, visit https://data-artisans.com. Media Contacts:
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