It was January 2014 and one of our BI resources came-up with an idea to (god knows where these insane ideas pop-up into the heads of otherwise sane people) do social media event analysis using Microsoft Power BI. We did not stop him. The event he tracked was Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2014. The two hashtags […]
News Key Points Policy engine aims to provide security for big data infrastructure Blue Talon policy engine, dynamic data masking, stealthy analytics and auditing Why Hadoop is the obvious choice for managing Big Data Early players, global Hadoop market HP Vertica users put limits on using Hadoop for analytics Predictive modeling, Data visualization “BIG DATA”: […]
We sat down with Khurram M. Pirzada, Big Data practice lead at Allied Consultants to ask him about the main challenges that developers come across an Apache Cassandra database (and NoSQL databases in general). Here are the major issues, along with their solutions that Pirzada highlighted. 1. Read-time Degradation “Relational databases cannot handle very large […]
The five key challenges of working in in Hadoop MapReduce are: Lack of data storage and support capabilities Lack of application deployment support Lack of analytical capabilities in database Issues in online processing Privacy and Security challenges Download Your Free Big Data Hadoop Software Requirements Document Here MapReduce defined IBM defines MapReduce as two separate and distinct tasks […]
Preface The questionnaire is based on TDWI’s Big Data Maturity Model Guide 2013. We have tweaked it into a questionnaire to help big data project managers & CIOs to help identify their respective stage in the maturity model, and do some quantification of their current state of big data maturity (based on the scores assigned […]
The post has been updated since it was last published. Big Data pilot A fast growing data integration company, Informatica, observed that “the explosive growth of Big Data is no longer a news. Being within the reach of most organizations today, the challenge is to adopt the big data or hadoop technologies by starting with […]
Here are the links to some of the integration and application development projects that Allied Consultants accomplished recently. Allied Consultants is a solution design and implementation firm specializing in the integration of systems, devices, and processes. The article is a brief summary of what we did in each case. We’d be glad to share details if […]
We recently did a project on the home automation side of IoT. The idea was to derive useful information related to power consumption (a big problem in our part of our world) regarding the AC premises and then take actions to reduce the utility costs Observe usage patterns and optimize it based on lowest cost […]
Customer Background Customer Profile: German multinational automotive manufacturer Country of Deployment: Germany Industry: High-tech. Automobile Manufacturing Challenge The automotive company planned to execute the soft-prototyping of all the automobile models that it produced throughout its globally located factories. A major challenge was designing the simulation process of the whole manufacturing process of the automobile based […]
The Big Strategic Opportunity Ability to draw intelligence from their data: This is the most pressing factor that concerns 67% of the 226 IT executives that Oracle surveyed in 2014. Surprisingly, 29% of the executives rate their organizational preparedness as poor to handle the data deluge. The 5 key inhibitors, for executives and organizations alike, are: […]