by Angela Guess
Dan Everett of SAP recently wrote an article for Forbes discussing the need for Data Governance in order to make the most of Big Data. He writes, “Most of the conversations I hear and articles I have seen about big data are focused on business analysis and innovation. Know more about your customers and the products and services they are looking for and you can positively impact revenue, margin and market share. These are great reasons to head down the big data path. However, to realize business value from big data companies need to have strong information governance and few people seem to be talking about this.”
He continues, “To enable analysis and innovation opportunities with big data, companies need to integrate information from multiple data sources. And this data will included both structured and unstructured data which means text processing and entity extraction capabilities will need to be part of the data integration infrastructure. It will also be important for companies to look for data integration solutions that have already done the integrations and optimizations to Hadoop and Map-Reduce so IT does not have to be experts in these areas.”
