How Big Data Will Impact Business
By: Spence
Companies are faced with a challenge today: how to get their arms around the massive amounts of data being generated by their internal IT systems, by their customer engagement tools, and by their various IT systems. But like so many things, within that challenge are the seeds of opportunity: big data gives companies big opportunities.
Big Data is all around you: it's within your information systems. It's within the activities of everyone associated with your business--your employees, your partners, and most importantly, your customers. But don't take our word for it--see how jStart has already been helping companies and organizations leverage big data for their benefit--take a look at some jStart scenarios and case studies.
Getting started...
- BigSheets
Learn how IBM Emerging Technology's BigSheets technology can help you get started with Big Data--from consolidating your numerous data sources into one central repository, to performing high level analysis with visualization, BigSheets can help your business get started with Big Data.
- Data Analytics
Once you've begun to explore Big Data with BigSheets, you may want to dive deeper into understanding what the data is trying to tell you. The jStart Team has extensive experience with data and data analytics--and can help your team not only understand the data better, but understand insights which may be hidden within the sheer mass of information available.
- Text Analytics
Data analytics will help you reveal insights, but text analytics can help further refine the results. Need to understand the context of the data your examining? Can understanding whether data refers to a person, place, thing, or time make a difference? If so, text analytics is a technology that may be suited to your needs.
- Apache Hadoop™
If your business has significant amounts of data available, that data represents a significant opportunity. The real question is how do you apply a technology that can scale to gather the information you require, handle that task efficiently, and give your business the ability to process the data efficiently. Hadoop may be the answer to those needs.
Learn more...
For Business Users
- IBM Big Data homepage
- Blog Post: What is Big Data?
- ZDNet: What is Big Data?
- TechCrunch: Big Data article
- Talk to jStart