Mike Boyarski, Director of Product Marketing
How to Best Align Your Big Data Analytics Strategy: Start at the End
How to Best Align Your Big Data Analytics Strategy
! The Opportunity of Big Data
! Big Data has presented a big opportunity for businesses as the variety, velocity and volume of data has decreased in cost and increased in value.
! With this, the possibilities for finding and validating new insight
for greater efficiency or competitiveness have never been richer. ! However, without the right direction and plan in place, this
opportunity can lead to failure.
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! What leads to failure with Big Data planning?
! The breadth of technologies and platforms on the market can be overwhelming to understand what path is best for you and how to successfully establish a Big Data plan.
! For example, Hadoop has become popular and visible yet may not be the best tool for the job, which results in delays and added costs.
! Before implementing a Big Data plan, do your research on the available data management tools. We suggest checking out the 451 Group’s series on Big Data that categorize and explain the differences between a wide variety of offerings and includes some helpful diagrams along the way.
! Forrester also continues to offer a wide array of keen insight on the Big Data market and chronicles its expertise into reports and blog entries.
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! Our advice on approaching Big Data
! Before you implement a Big Data approach, first identify the current problems with data and the opportunities gained by solving them.
! Identify the requirements to address the opportunity
incorporating available software tools, hardware, and skills to build and manage the solution.
! Ask yourself: Who within my organization or project team needs
access to the data and how will the results be acted on?
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! To answer these questions, you’ll need to identify:
! Functional user profiles; ! Specific intended outcomes or use cases for the data; and ! Requirements for processing and using the data.
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! Align your Big Data opportunity to Big Data solution ! Remember, these match ups are not readily apparent, but with a little
digging, you can save significant resources in costs around scaling, training, license fees spent in the name of extracting key business insights from Big Data.
! If you are interested in learning more about reporting & analyzing Big Data or the popularity of Big Data engines, check out our Big Data Index: http://www.jaspersoft.com/bigdata
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