Big Data Moving Beyond First Movers, Going Mainstream in 2015 Posted on : Jan 29 - 2015

The collection and analysis of big data workloads was perhaps the biggest trend in enterprise computing during the last 12 months, yet the lasting impact of these projects at many companies won't be fully realized for months—even years—to come. Still, market evidence suggests that in the next 12 months, big data analytics will be matriculating beyond first-movers and going mainstream. IDC recently documented these predictions in " IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Big Data and Analytics Predictions for 2015." The research firm cited the "digitization of everything," the continued increase in the number of data producers and new expectations for information access as key drivers for the coming year. While these are undoubtedly major trends for 2015, Chris Surdak, a global subject matter expert at HP Software, said they only set the stage for what his company expects in the market. In this slide show, developed with eWEEK reporting and input from Surdak, we share key trends for the coming year in the big data space.

Big Data Will Completely Change IT Operations

Big data will reshape IT operations in 2015 at companies that realize these technologies and techniques must first be applied to internal operations, long before they're used for marketing and customer projects. IT operations must be completely rethought in order to make this change.

 Big Data Will Affect All Business Processes

Re-engineering for big data is critical because business processes must be geared toward action at the speed of insight. There's no value in identifying what customers are doing every minute of the day if you can't respond at the same speed or faster.

 The Internet of Things and Big Data Will Collide

The key to the IoT in 2015 is starting up. If you don't have data, you have nothing to analyze. Much effort is going to be placed on simply wiring things up to start collecting data. But remember: IoT by itself is irrelevant. It's what you do with the data coming from it that changes everything. Putting IoT data to work is the imperative for 2015.

The Move Toward User-Friendly Big Data Apps

Companies that enable their business analysts to use the tools they know and love today, rather than spending time and money hiring and enabling data scientists, are on the road to success.

Big Data Will Force Businesses to Ask New Questions

Structured data always has focused on questions around "what?" The real value comes from asking new questions, including "why?" These questions are based on context, which comes from human information. Understand my "why," and you can deliver value to me in entirely new ways. Applications that don't ask and answer "why" questions will be commoditized into nothing in very short order.

Big Data Will Continue to Move Away From BI

In 2015, the difference between "big data" and "big business intelligence" will become more pronounced. Big BI doesn't generate disruptive results; it's more of the same old thing—just bigger and more expensive

Predictive Analytics Will Become the Norm

This year, predictive analytics will go from "cool new thing" to "you'd better have it, or else." It's no longer hype.

Big Data Becomes a Line of Defense

Big data technologies and techniques will be the only way for enterprises to keep up with threats. If organizations are not proactively monitoring and predictively modeling the threat, they're already dead.

Big Data Developers Will Require Business Skills

For enterprise big data teams, finding data-literate business people will be the highest priority in 2015 and beyond. Key skills to look for include the ability to architect solutions that can be abstracted away from their underlying systems and languages. Being able to work across multiple platforms is an also a strong asset.  View more