BigDataFr recommends: Big Data And Business Intelligence

[…] Turning raw data into actionable insights has been the goal of many a business since the 1990s. Back then, ‘business intelligence’ was the buzzword, and since the tweenies and teenies it’s been ‘big data’. Now the two are combining (‘Big Intelligence’, maybe?) as the promise of big data is finally capable of delivering the business intelligence that companies have long dreamed about.

However, the cost and complexity of deploying such an endeavour is still somewhat of a challenge. Big data is a complicated thing, consisting, as it does, of reams and reams of unstructured data, covering everything from Twitter tweets to telephone conversation logs. […]