Big Data - Extracting Value from Your Digital Landfills

We're living in a world of facial recognition, event prediction, and unparalleled customer segmentation, powered by applications that can query massive datasets at lightning-quick speeds.

Perhaps it's the almost sci-fi appeal of these applications that has made big data such a hot topic among industry-watchers and thought-leaders. Despite all the hype, there's still a lot of confusion about what these technological breakthroughs mean for businesses.

This report explores how big data applications can be used to extract value from your digital landfills. Important business insights can be gained when these applications are run against unstructured content repositories, generally containing text or rich media files, and linked to structured datasets holding transactional or numerical data.

In this free eBook, you will learn:

• The potential benefits of big data analytics
• Practical and popular use cases of big data applications
• The issues that are holding users back, including skills shortages, product immaturity, and implementation uncertainties