Big Data Imperatives: Enterprise 'Big Data' Warehouse, 'BI' Implementations and Analytics

Acknowledgments

This book wouldn’t exist without the efforts of many people. Since this area is emerging and rapidly evolving, no one can claim that they have mastery of the subject; certainly many thoughts in this book are ideas from discussions, publications, blogs, etc. At the end of each chapter we have listed the reference materials we used. The authors gratefully acknowledge some of the many references here, in no particular order.

• The publications in the field of big data, referenced at the end of each chapter.
• The clients and practitioners who have shared their thoughts, problems, and interesting solution ideas with authors.
• Apress, which has invested considerable time and effort in bringing this book to market—particularly Jeffrey Pepper, ...