Big data and analytics

Big data analytics (BDA) is used to build competitive advantage, drive innovations, and enhance revenue. This capability offers a cost-effective cloud-based solution for data analytics. As big data grows in importance, organizations are striving to derive meaningful insight from this data. This is crucial to enabling an ability to respond to real business needs in a timely manner.

The following diagram illustrates a simplified enterprise cloud architecture for a BDA environment and contains three network zones: public, cloud service provider, and enterprise:

Figure 6: BDA solutions in the cloud

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