Gartner:42%it Manager has invested in large data

On March 22, according to foreign media reports, international research and consultancy Gartner said 2013 was a year of large-scale adoption of large data by companies. According to Gartner's survey of global IT executives, 42% per cent of respondents said they had invested in big data or that they would invest in the next year.

Doug Laney, vice president of Gartner Research, says most companies are still in the early stages of using big data, with only a handful of them already on the corporate level, or the overall impact of big data on their infrastructure, businesses and industries.

Market disruption makes emerging data types and new information processing methods continue to generate and increase demand, enterprises in a rapidly changing science and technology environment also embarked on a large data research program. Its adoption of large data comes from two main reasons, necessity and belief. Companies are increasingly aware of the importance of large data research programs because large data can lead to significant or potential business opportunities unmatched by traditional data sources, technologies, or applications.

Gartner predicts that by 2015, 20% of the world's top 1000 companies will focus their strategy on "information Infrastructure", which is as important as application management.

Bullish on large data opportunities, enterprises in various industries have gathered and stored in advance numerous operational, public, business and social information. However, for the vast majority of industries (especially government agencies, manufacturing and education), combining the above resources with the currently underutilized dark data (dark), such as e-mail, multimedia and other enterprise resources, is the most direct opportunity to transform business.

Gartner believes that through the integration and comprehensive analysis of a wide range of data, rather than only individual, enterprises can achieve the most unique business insights, and to achieve process and decision-making is excellent. Although the use of most large data is focused on the availability and speed of data, Gartner's survey shows that the final run-off depends on expanding the data source.

Laney says that information is the most important asset of the company by the business and IT management. Although the efficiency of information management and construction is increasing, the enterprise does not integrate it with the precise asset management system applied to traditional materials, finance or other intangible assets. The application of the formal information assessment model will provide it, information management and business executives with a more thorough decision-making basis for information management (information management, IM), enrichment, investment, risk management, procurement, bargaining, manufacturing and selling.

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