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Putting Big Data to Work: Opportunities for Enterprises

Summary:

Business and IT leaders now face significant opportunities and challenges with big data — that is data sets that are so large they are difficult to store, manage and analyze. This report explores the rapidly evolving big data business and technology ecosystem. It examines big data in the context of several different industries: financial services, health care, sports, travel and media. We explore the different big data technologies — from Hadoop and NoSQL derivatives to cloud-based collaboration tools — and their various benefits for enterprises. And we examine some of the existing challenges big data poses, and what enterprise IT leaders can do to overcome them. Companies mentioned in this report include Amazon Web Services, Google, Teradata, IBM and Cloudera. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial.

  1. About Brett Sheppard
  2. About GigaOM Pro
  3. Executive Summary
  4. Defining Big Data
    1. Volume
    2. Complexity
    3. Speed
  5. Empowerment of Business and Public-Sector Value
    1. Improve Operational Efficiency
    2. Grow Revenues
    3. Empower “Blue Ocean” New Business Models
  6. Big Data by Industry
    1. Financial Services
    2. Health Care
    3. Sports
    4. Travel
    5. Web 2.0: Consumer, Retail and Media
  7. Big Data Technologies
    1. Open-Source Options: Hadoop and More
    2. In-database Analytics
    3. Visualization
    4. Collaboration: Friending Your Big Data
  8. Big Data Limitations
  9. Key Takeaways
  10. Further Reading