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Big Data Analytics: Profiling the Use of Analytical Platforms in User Organizations
by Wayne Eckerson
Published: September 28, 2011
This research report, written By Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research, Business Applications and Architecture Group at TechTarget, profiles the use of analytical platforms in user organizations. It discusses 4 deployment options: analytical database (software only); analytical appliance (hardware-software comb; analytical service; and file-based analytical system (e.g., Hadoop and NoSQL).
Executive SummaryThis 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... Login to read the entire study.
About the Author
Wayne Eckerson - Wayne Eckerson has been a thought leader and consultant in the business intelligence (BI) field since 1995. He has conducted numerous in-depth research studies and is a noted speaker and blogger. He is the author of the best-selling book Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business. For many years, he served as director of education and research at The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) where he chaired its BI Executive Summit and created a popular BI Maturity Model and Assessment. Wayne is currently director of research at TechTarget and president of BI Leader Consulting, which provides advisory services to user and vendor organizations. He can be reached at weckerson@techtarget.com.
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