Chapter(19): Information Technology Industry

Nowadays, Big Data analytics is an extensive area for both academia and industry. Big Data analytics has attracted intense interest from all academia and industry recently for its attempt to extract knowledge, information, and wisdom from Big Data. Big Data and cloud computing are two of the most important trends defining the new emerging analytical tools. Big Data analytical capabilities using cloud delivery models could ease adoption for many industries, and the most crucial thinking to cost-saving could simplify useful insights that could provide them with different kinds of competitive advantage.

Many companies offer online Big Data analytical tools, some of the top companies like Amazon Big Data Analytics Platform, HIVE web-based Interface, SAP Big Data Analytics, IBM Info Sphere Big Insights, Cloudera Big Data Solution, etc. Those companies analyze vast amounts of data with different tools and provide an easy or straightforward user interface for analyzing data.

This chapter deals with Big Data definition, Analysis requirements, tools, frameworks, and different types of cloud-based Big Data analytics tools.