The proliferation of the World Wide Web and therefore the increasing speed of data
generation laid the foundation of the big data era. With millions of sensors in devices like …

Many businesses are implementing big data applications to improve efficiency and
performance; and reduce costs and resource consumption. As digitization has become an …

Since the inception of the Web, Maes (1994) has been pointed out that we were faced with
data or information overload. Since then the volume of data and information that are …

Abstract The term Big Data is intuitively appealing and increasingly well accepted in
academics as well as practices. Firms readily see the possibility of new business value from …

Unique prospective on the big data analytics phenomenon for both business and IT
professionals The availability of Big Data, low-cost commodity hardware and new …

Business analytics and big data have been at the center of interest for researchers and
practitioners for almost a decade now. The methods and processes that comprise business …

Big data projects and programs provide tremendous opportunity for organizations looking to
transform their operations, innovate in their markets, and better serve their customers; …

The expansion of Internet and its applications globally has witnessed generation of high
volume of data resulting in high volume of information. In the contemporary era of digital …

With more and more data generated, it has become a big challenge for traditional
architectures and infrastructures to process large amounts of data within an acceptable time …

Most of the information about Big Data has focused on the technical side of the
phenomenon. This chapter makes the case that business implications of utilizing Big Data …