The IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) is embarking on its fourth annual survey on analytics and big data. Rebecca Shockley, Global Research Lead at IBV, gave a preview of the objectives for the 2013 survey. She explained they will be looking into how organizations are executing and what it takes to execute on big data analytics within an organization, be it a small company or a large, multinational corporation. IBV will also examine how data are brought together and what skills are involved in deriving value from it.