Top Big Data & BI Consulting Companies | Rankings & Reviews. 13 Big Data Vendors To Watch In 2013. From Amazon to Splunk, here's a look at the big data innovators that are now pushing Hadoop, NoSQL and big data analytics to the next level. 1 of 15 Pioneers Push Big Data EnvelopeThere are leaders and there are followers in the big data movement. This collection comprises a baker's dozen leaders. Some, like Amazon, Cloudera and 10Gen, were there at the dawn of the Hadoop and NoSQL movements. Others, like Hortonworks and Platfora, are newcomers, but draw on deep experience. The three big themes you'll find in this collection are Hadoop maturation, NoSQL innovation and analytic discovery. The NoSQL set is led by 10Gen, Amazon, CouchBase, DataStax and Neo Technologies.
Big data analytic discovery is still in the process of being invented, and the leaders here include Datameer, Hadapt, Karmasphere, Platfora and Splunk. What you won't find here are old-guard vendors from the relational database world. For many users, the key issues include flexibility, speed and ease of use. More Insights. Big Data’s Impact in the World. Welcome to the Age of Big Data. The new megarich of Silicon Valley, first at Google and now Facebook, are masters at harnessing the data of the Web — online searches, posts and messages — with Internet advertising. At the World Economic Forum last month in Davos, Switzerland, Big Data was a marquee topic. A report by the forum, “Big Data, Big Impact,” declared data a new class of economic asset, like currency or gold. Rick Smolan, creator of the “Day in the Life” photography series, is planning a project later this year, “The Human Face of Big Data,” documenting the collection and uses of data.
Mr. Smolan is an enthusiast, saying that Big Data has the potential to be “humanity’s dashboard,” an intelligent tool that can help combat poverty, crime and pollution. Privacy advocates take a dim view, warning that Big Data is Big Brother, in corporate clothing. What is Big Data? Data is not only becoming more available but also more understandable to computers. Photo. 20 Most Promising Big Data Companies. The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Big Data. For harnessing data from its planes and trains to power a new Industrial Internet, potentially saving billions. General Electric is best known for its machine making, but it’s gotten smart and branded itself as a big-data company, too, by pushing its vision for an “Industrial Internet”—the notion that machines should be connected like the web in order to increase efficiency and reduce downtime.
In 2012, it launched software to help airlines and railroads move their data to the cloud and partnered with Accenture to form Taleris, a startup that will help airlines predict mechanical malfunctions and reduce flight cancellations. The Abu Dhabi–based Etihad Airways was the first to deploy the tech in November. Read more >> 2. For feeding its DIY data scientists cash-prize challenges (then molding them into a consulting biz). 3. For using a visual approach to take the guesswork out of big data.
A) Violence increases in Baghdad, marking the beginning of Al Qaeda’s “Break the Walls” campaign. 15 most powerful Big Data companies. Big Data News. Big data: Crunching the numbers. A BIG BANK hires a star analyst from another firm, promising to pay a substantial bonus if the new hire increases revenue or cuts costs. In banking this happens all the time, but this deal differs from the rest in one small detail: the new hire, Watson, is an IBM computer. Watson became something of a celebrity after beating the champion human contestants on “Jeopardy”, an American quiz show. Its skill is to be able to process millions of documents quickly by reading and “understanding” ordinary written language.
Computers have no trouble with searching data neatly sorted in databases. Watson's claim to fame is that it can do the same with “unstructured data” such as those found in e-mails, news reports, books and websites. IBM hopes that Watson may, in time, do some of the work that human analysts do now, such as reading the financial pages of newspapers, looking at thousands of company results and forecasts and producing a list of companies that might be takeover targets soon. Big Data: The Management Revolution. Artwork: Tamar Cohen, Happy Motoring, 2010, silk screen on vintage road map, 26" x 18" “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” There’s much wisdom in that saying, which has been attributed to both W.
Edwards Deming and Peter Drucker, and it explains why the recent explosion of digital data is so important. Simply put, because of big data, managers can measure, and hence know, radically more about their businesses, and directly translate that knowledge into improved decision making and performance. Consider retailing. Booksellers in physical stores could always track which books sold and which did not. If they had a loyalty program, they could tie some of those purchases to individual customers. The familiarity of the Amazon story almost masks its power. As the tools and philosophies of big data spread, they will change long-standing ideas about the value of experience, the nature of expertise, and the practice of management. What’s New Here? Volume. Velocity.