Top Big Data Trends to Watch in 2027
Analytics Insight, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Seven big data trends - AI analytics, governance automation, lakehouses, and quantum - will reshape data strategy.
One of the major big data developments expected by 2027, starting with AI-driven analytics becoming standard practice and decision intelligence putting AI agents into half of business decisions.
Automated data governance is extending to unstructured data, lakehouse architecture adoption is projected to reach 73% of enterprises, and synthetic data is emerging as a privacy workaround. Edge computing pushes processing closer to sources, GraphRAG improves AI accuracy, and quantum computing begins to matter for security.
The global big data market is projected to approach USD 103 billion by 2027. Note: the source URL has a trailing typo; the live article is at the same path without the final j.