Big Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has revolutionized the society. Unlike in the past, private sector, government agencies, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) rely on ICT to perform nearly all activities. Decision-making process is one area that has become dependent on ICT, thanks to the concept of big data. Today, the entities rely on ICT to collect a large volume, variety, and velocity of data. Despite the significant contributions of big data, its usage has been crippled mainly because of the problems encountered during the analytics process. This paper studied the challenges that hinder effective analytics of the big data. It used the systematic review to collect and analyze secondary data. The research established that big data analytics has not been perfectly done because of the problem of lack of enough skilled experts, technological drawbacks, and the legal and ethical constraints.