Big Data on The Rise: Views of Emerging Trends & Predictions from real life end-users

There are some key trends that are emerging in 2017 within the Hadoop and Big Data ecosystem, which center around the increase of the use of cloud. These trends are the underpinning for a larger shift toward purpose-driven products positioned as the core of an organization's data strategy. Certainly there are examples of this in early adopters that are mature in their deployments, but what about those more traditional end user organizations in the midst of a digital transformation? How is the relationship between IT and the needs of the growing data science align for business development? What are their views on these trends? How are their organizations reconciling the needs and desires to pave a path forward? In this session, Roman will present ODPi's findings and end-user views of Big Data trends based on data from the ODPi End User Advisory Board (TAB). Audiences will get real end-user perspectives from companies such as GE about how they are using Big Data tools, challenges they face and where they are looking to focus investments - all from a vendor-neutral viewpoint.