In The Big Use Cases of Big Data, we have discussed how large and wealthy organizations have been leveraging their big data for a long time. In a series of short blog posts, we’ll be reviewing some of the less mainstream, or more “democratic” uses cases that new technology for big data is enabling.

Like many other open source vendors, Talend was founded on the promise to democratize integration. The means to achieve this democratization is through open source that accelerates development cycles, promotes adoption, and enables companies of all sizes to use enterprise-grade technology without mortgaging their future. Continue reading ‘The New Use Cases of Big Data’

As discussed in a previous post, What is Big Data, Anyway?, big data is nothing new. What’s new(er) are the tools are technologies that are contributing to the democratization of big data (see Tools and Technologies of Big Data for some technology basics).

While most organizations have been amassing big data for years, it is worth noting that some of them have been “doing” big data for years. By “doing”, I mean processing, leveraging, analyzing, mining – anything else than just storing it.  It’s one thing for Wal-Mart to process in excess of one million transactions per hour and store this historical data, or for the US Census Bureau to collect demographics on 300 million Americans – and it’s another thing for these parties to actually process it, massage it, and extract actionable information. Continue reading ‘The Big Use Cases of Big Data’