In my position as Chief Data Officer for Ness Software Engineering Services, I talk with many companies about their Big Data challenges and needs. Some of these companies have chosen to analyze their Big Data to enable use cases such as online personalization or creating a 360-degree view of their users. Others have been forced […]
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It seems Hadoop is the ‘flavor of the month’ in IT these days, and commands conflicting headlines month after month. What is Hadoop, and where did it come from? Like many great innovations, Hadoop was created to solve an entirely different problem – building a web search engine. In 1999, Doug Cutting developed Lucene, a […]
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Last time we explored Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) databases as a way to run SQL queries on Big Data at Rest. One of the leading commercial products in this category is Pivotal’s Greenplum, which, at its peak, achieved annual revenues of over $100 million. The rise and fall of this product provides an illustrative lesson […]
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The rubric of Big Data covers a lot of varied problems. Knowing how to classify a Big Data problem is the first essential step in proposing a solution. To illustrate, suppose your retail business has two critical needs: Firstly, you need to analyze historical sales data in your Enterprise Data Warehouse, going back 10 years, […]
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Dharmendra Kapadia provides insight on next generation Big Data analysis Big companies across the world have come to realize the importance of Big Data in this digital economy. Dharmendra Kapadia, Senior Direction, Solutioning, Ness SES has authored an article on the emergence and the importance of Big Data for Business World, one of the biggest […]
read more »You can’t pick up a trade magazine these days without seeing an article about Big Data and how companies are anxious to leverage this data for actionable insight. The CTO of ThingsRUs Ltd announces that, thanks to a successful Big Data initiative, customers need to service their Thing only once a year instead of twice. […]
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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is the next wave of innovation impacting the way the world connects and optimizes machines. IIoT, through use of sensors, advanced analytics and intelligent decisioning, will profoundly transform the way field assets connect and communicate with the enterprise. Forrester Research predicts that the market for Big Data will reach […]
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