by Angela Guess
Jessica Davis reports in InformationWeek, “Streaming analytics, self-service options, and embedding big data insights into the applications that drive the business are the new priorities for organizations as they evaluate their big data strategies. That’s according to a new TechRadar report from Forrester Research that looks at the state of big data in businesses today. Enterprise organizations have reached a new stage in big data adoption, and in 2016 they will be looking to embed the technology into the applications that power their businesses via integration and APIs.”
Davis continues, “The priorities for this year mark a change from organizations’ comfort level just three years ago with big data technologies. In 2013, customers were still trying to grapple with branching out from their traditional data technologies to those that could encompass big data. But in those few years, organizations have gained enough confidence to want more. And at the same time the technology has advanced. ‘Forrester has seen an explosion in client adoption of big data since we first wrote about it in 2011,’ wrote Brian Hopkins, Forrester Research VP and principal analyst serving enterprise architecture professionals, in the TechRadar report. ‘For example, the number of firms implementing streaming analytics, a key leading-edge big data technology, more than doubled between 2012 and 2015’.”
She adds, “Forrester has identified key vendors and technology for streaming analytics as Apache Spark Streaming, Apache Storm, Data Torrent, IBM, Informatica, SAP, Software AG, SQLstream, Strim (WebAction), TIBCO, and Vitria.”
Photo credit: Flickr/ wahousegop