by Angela Guess
Loraine Lawson recently reported, “Integration is a major issue when it comes to analyzing Big Data, according to a recent report by Ventana Research. Almost two thirds of participants in the benchmark study said integration is a major obstacle to analyzing data. While there are third-party solutions that claim to help access and use data from Hadoop and other Big Data stores, less than half of those surveyed were satisfied with the integration of third-party products, the research found.”
She continues, “The problem isn’t basic queries and reporting; it’s the more in-depth types of analytics, such as data mining, visualization and predictive analytics, which allow companies to explore “what if” scenarios. These are seldom available as integrated capabilities, writes David Menninger, a vice president and research director at Ventana.”
Menninger stated, “Responding to such comments, vendors have been racing to integrate their business intelligence and information management products with big-data sources,” Menninger writes. “As you consider big-data projects and technologies, make sure that the vendors you select can handle the big-data sources you must use.”
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