Big Data Analytics: Profiling the Use of Analytical Platforms in User Organizations

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This report examines the rise of big data and the use of analytics to mine that data. Companies have been storing and analyzing large volumes of data since the advent of the data warehousing movement in the early 1990s. While terabytes used to be synonymous with big data warehouses, now it’s petabytes, and the rate of growth in data volumes continues to escalate as organizations seek to store and analyze greater levels of transaction details, as well as web- and machine-generated data, to gain a better understanding of customer behavior and drivers.

Read this report to learn about the four deployment options:

  • Analytical database (software only)
  • Analytical appliance (hardware-software combination)
  • Analytical service (off-site hosted environment or public cloud)
  • File-based analytical system (Hadoop, NoSQL, etc.)