The Strategic value of big data

analytics is compelling enough

for organizations to move
forward despite challenges and
concerns.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Big data is here. This report clearly indicate a great deal of excitement and
activity around planning and implementing strategies for big data
environments Big data is one of the great new frontiers of IT. Data is
exploding so fast and the promise of deeper insights is so compelling that IT
managers are highly motivated to turn big data into an asset they can
manage and exploit for their organizations. Emerging technologies such as
the Hadoop framework and MapReduce offer new and exciting ways to
process and transform big datadefined as complex, unstructured, or large
amounts of datainto meaningful insights, but also require IT to deploy
infrastructure differently to support the distributed processing requirements
and real-time demands of big data analytics.
This report introduces the concept Big Data and depicts the Strategic
implementations for approaching big data analytics. It also provides the
Strategies to implement IT infrastructure favorable for Big Data. Then it
states certain case studies in regards to successful implementation of Big
Data in certain organisations, the benefits from such Big Data
implementation and how some organisations are utilizing Big Data analytic to
increase sales volume, reduce errors and create insights.
Thus this report helps in understanding Big Data and the Strategies behind
Big Data implementation. It also acts as a benchmark how to approach big
data analytics for use in any organisation and IT strategic planning efforts.