Monday, May 20, 2013

BIG DATA - Q&A


How is Big Data different from other tools that were been used 5 and 10 years ago?




As you can see from this picture there is a lot of DATA been produce, which is growing at really fast rates. BIG DATA allows you to take into account ALL these information, Terabytes of information, which could is limited to other programs such as Excel.  Another difference is the input of External information that is available to companies, social media, blogs, etc. Which BIG DATA takes into consideration while other programs will find it more challenging to include.

How expensive it is to implement BIG DATA into a company?
The price varies depending on the industry, size, and sophistication of the information. However, research has shown that the ROI of investing in BIG DATA is large. According to IBM: “Plenty of customers are seeing tangible ROI using IBM solutions to address their big data challenges:
           
- Healthcare: 20% decrease in patient mortality by analyzing streaming patient data.
- Telco: 92% decrease in processing time by analyzing networking and call data
- Utilities: 99% improved accuracy in placing power generation resources by analyzing 2.8 petabytes of untapped data” [1]

Note: Remember to take into consideration that you must invest in security to protect your information.

How do I know what information is useful and what’s not?
There is a Human Factor associate to the implementation of Big Data and the Variety of information that is available. If you want to see the best results it is really important for you to Process the Data in-house in order for you to see positive results. If you plug random data you will get random results. You can hire a consulting firm to help you process the Data, but try to get the managers of every department involve in this selection part.

Can you give some examples of the uses of BIG DATA in other industries?

You can check some example in the follow link:

 References:
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2012/11/just-how-big-is-big-data.html




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