In the customer-driven era, business success depends on how quickly a business can respond to a customer demand. The more that businesses become reliant on real-time outcomes, the more they will seek next-generation (next-gen) BI deployments. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) platforms were high-cost and time-intensive applications. The current trend in BI is to move toward “insights-only” platforms, which can instantly respond to dynamic situations. These modern systems also must meet…

In 2002, internet researchers just wanted a better search engine, and preferably one that was open-sourced. That was when Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella decided to give them what they wanted, and they called their project “Nutch.” Hadoop was originally designed as part of the Nutch infrastructure, and was presented in the year 2005. The Hadoop ecosystem narrowly refers to the different software components available at the Apache Hadoop Commons…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will continue to transform and disrupt most industries but, to really stay competitive, organizations need to deploy AI-Driven systems quickly. However, as Ramesh Mahalingam, CEO of Vizru, an AI-based autonomous applications company, said this is not an easy feat: “AI adoption has proven quite a challenge. It takes enormous time, cost and resources to build and deploy scalable AI systems. Incorporating AI processes within an existing legacy…

Public clouds have become popular as a solution for many data-driven projects around Big Data, Business Intelligence and Analytics, as well as specialized projects, such as Machine Learning and AI. Cloud providers normally offer significant scalability and advantageous, user-friendly tools. Migration to the cloud is considered to be cost-effective, making it an excellent choice for businesses and organizations of all sizes. However, the use of public clouds come with a…

Humans can be very particular about things. Some little kids simply won’t eat spinach. Adolescents might refuse to wear clothing that isn’t imprinted with cool brand logos. And adults may not like the cultural change that accompanies the effort to become a data-driven enterprise. Recent research addresses this in the context of Big Data and AI. Seventy-seven percent of respondents said that “business adoption” of Big Data and AI initiatives…

Data Governance is the hot topic in today’s security- and privacy-concerned digital ecosystem. Blockchain technology offers data-centered security to sensitive, transactional systems that require tamper-resistant, fully auditable tracking mechanisms. Thus, blockchain and Data Governance (DG) complement each other in many ways, while maintaining distinct operational philosophies and application turfs. Blockchain is today’s preferred technology for many systems governed by stringent regulatory compliance. Gartner confronts the Top 3 Blockchain and Data Management Myths…