BigDataFr recommends: A new breed of ‘data-first’ tools could soon dominate the enterprise

We are about to witness an upheaval in the enterprise software market that will put billions of dollars of IT spending up for grabs.

In the old world, enterprise applications were primarily about increasing a business’ efficiency through better workflow — data and analytics were add-ons. In the emerging world, applications will be “data first,” putting data and algorithms at the center, and using them to drive other applications.[…]