Top Big Data Analytics in Retail Companies

Global Big Data Analytics in Retail Market size was valued at USD 6.38 Billion in 2024 and is poised to grow from USD 7.73 Billion in 2025 to USD 35.98 Billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 21.2% during the forecast period (2026–2033). 

The competitive landscape of the global big data analytics in retail industry is characterized by the presence of prominent technology companies, retail solution providers, and emerging startups driving innovation in the sector. Leading players such as IBM Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and SAP SE are at the forefront, offering advanced analytics platforms tailored for retail applications. These companies focus on providing end-to-end solutions, including customer behavior analysis, inventory management, and demand forecasting, to enhance operational efficiency and customer experiences. Meanwhile, startups and niche providers are leveraging AI and machine learning to deliver specialized solutions, such as real-time insights, predictive analytics, and automated decision-making. 'Microsoft Corporation (United States) ', 'IBM Corporation (United States) ', 'Oracle Corporation (United States) ', 'SAS Institute Inc. (United States) ', 'SAP SE (Germany) ', 'Salesforce.com Inc. (United States) ', 'Adobe Inc. (United States) ', 'MicroStrategy Incorporated (United States) ', 'Teradata Corporation (United States) ', 'Alteryx Inc. (United States) ', 'Altair Engineering Inc. (United States) ', 'Cloudera Inc. (United States) ', 'Talend S.A. (France) ', 'Splunk Inc. (United States) ', 'EDITED (United Kingdom) ', 'Synerise S.A. (Poland) ', 'RetailNext Inc. (United States) ', 'CARTO (United States) ', 'eSite Analytics (United States) ', 'Buxton (United States)'

E-commerce has impacted traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, reduced their significance and marked the data-driven revolution in the retail sector. An efficient supply chain, the optimized movement of goods from supplier to warehouse to store to the customer, is critical to every business. Therefore, big data analytics is at the core of revolutionizing the retail supply chain, i.e., tracking and tracing product flow and stock levels in real-time, leveraging customer data to predict buying patterns, and even using robots to fulfill orders in vast automated warehouses tirelessly.

Growing Trend of Edge Computing to Surge Big Data Analytics Tools Demand: The increasing number of connected IoT devices is fueled by the expanding adoption of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT). According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) data, 152,200 IoT devices will connect per minute by 2025. The increasing requirement for connected devices accelerates the execution of edge computing. Edge computing solutions are defined as a structure where the processors are placed closer to the destination or source for data instead of clouds.

North America dominated the market in 2024 due to the rise in data production and retail consumption with corresponding sales increases. The region boasts a strong foothold of big data analytics vendors, which further contributes to the market's growth. Some include IBM Corporation, SAS Institute Inc., Alteryx Inc., and Microstrategy Incorporated. The increasing adoption of industry 4.0 across the retail sector is one of the primary aspects encouraging market growth. In retail 4.0, several operations and processes in the retail industry, like inventory management, customer service, customer accounts, supply chain management, and merchandising management activities, became digitized and automated.