{"id":4428,"date":"2014-02-05T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2014-01-13T08:20:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:20:55","slug":"big-data-continues-to-dominate-the-it-conversation-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/big-data-continues-to-dominate-the-it-conversation-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data Continues to Dominate the IT Conversation in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

A report by IDG Enterprise<\/a> finds that 2014 will be another year where Big Data and analytics dominate much of the IT news reporting.<\/p>\n

IDG Enterprise defines Big Data<\/a> as “large volumes of a wide variety of data collected from various sources across the enterprise including transactional data from\u00a0enterprise applications\/databases, social media data, mobile device data, unstructured data\/documents, machine generated data and more.”<\/p>\n

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The report finds that “Big Data as an enterprise initiative is beginning to gain momentum… 12 percent have already deployed a big data project. These individuals estimate that their organization will spend an average of $8 million<\/strong> on big data initiatives over the next year… \u00a0Business management, particularly the CEO, is leading the charge on the need for big data strategies<\/strong>… \u00a0Business leadership is looking to IT management to build the necessary strategies to utilize big data based on company goals. Once implemented, IT executives play a key role in capturing, searching\/storing, sharing, analyzing and visualizing data.”<\/p>\n

Some findings of the IDG Enterprise report include:<\/p>\n