In today’s world, by collecting data you can find answers for – root cause for failure, recalculating the risk profiles, etc. It also helps to reduce cost, faster decision making. Hadoop technology and cloud-based analytics help business analyze the information or data immediately so decision making is much faster.
A number of companies have emerged to provide ways to wrangle huge datasets and understand the relevant information within them. Some offer powerful data analysis tools, while others aggregate and organize datasets into usable formats.
The following companies all work with big data in some way, enabling other organizations to make better sense of their businesses and take new steps toward problem-solving.
1. IBM - International Business Machine (IBM) is an American company headquartered in New York. IBM is listed at # 43 in Forbes list with a Market Capitalization of $162.4 billion as of May 2017. The company’s operation is spread across 170 countries and the largest employer with around 414,400 employees.
IBM is the biggest vendor for Big Data-related products and services. IBM Big Data solutions provide features such as store data, manage data and analyze data.
There are numerous sources from where this data comes and accessible to all users, Business Analysts, Data Scientist, etc. DB2, Informix, and InfoSphere are popular database platforms by IBM which supports Big Data Analytics. There are also famous analytics applications by IBM such as Cognos and SPSS.
IBM’s Big Data Solutions are as below:
#1) Hadoop System: It is a storage platform that stores structured and unstructured data. It is designed to process a large volume of data to gain business insights.
#2) Stream Computing: Stream Computing enables organizations to perform in-motion analytics including the Internet of Things, real-time data processing, and analytics
#3) Federated discovery and Navigation: Federated discovery and navigation software help organizations to analyze and access information across the enterprise. IBM provides below listed Big Data products which will help to capture, analyze, and manage any structured and unstructured data.
#4) IBM® BigInsights™ for Apache™ Hadoop®: It enables organizations to analyze a huge volume of data quickly and in a simple manner.
#5) IBM BigInsights on Cloud: It provides Hadoop as a service through the IBM SoftLayer cloud infrastructure.
#6) IBM Streams: For critical Internet of Things applications, it helps organizations to capture and analyze data in motion.
2. Oracle - Oracle offers fully integrated cloud applications, platform services with more than 420,000 customers and 136,000 employees across 145 countries. It has a Market capitalization of $182.2 billion and sales of $37.4 B as per Forbes list.
Oracle is the biggest player in the Big Data area, it is also well known for its flagship database. Oracle leverages the benefits of big data in the cloud. It helps organizations to define its data strategy and approach which includes big data and cloud technology.
It provides a business solution that leverages Big Data Analytics, applications, and infrastructure to provide insight for logistics, fraud, etc. Oracle also provides Industry solutions which ensure that your organization takes advantage of Big Data opportunities.
Oracle’s Big Data industry solutions address the growing demand for different industries such as Banking, Health Care, Communications, Public Sector, Retail, etc. There are a variety of Technology solutions such as Cloud Computing, Application Development, and System Integration.
Oracle offers different products as below:
- Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Services
- Oracle Big Data Appliance
- Oracle Big Data Discovery Cloud Services
- Data Visualization Cloud Service
3. SAP - SAP is the largest business software company founded in 1972 with headquarters in Walldrof, Germany. It has a Market Capitalization of $119.7 billion with total employee count as 84,183 as of May 2017.
As per the Forbes list, SAP has sales of $24.4 billion and a profit of around $4 B with 345,000 customers. It is the largest provider of enterprise application software and the best cloud company with 110 million cloud subscribers.
The SAP provides a variety of Analytics Tool but its main Big Data Tool is the HANA-in memory relational database. This tool integrates with Hadoop and can run on 80 terabytes of data.
SAP helps the organization to turn a huge amount of Big Data into real-time insight with Hadoop. It enables distributed data storage and advanced computation capabilities.
SAP Big Data provides the following listed products:
#1) SAP Predictive Analytics
- It uses a predictive algorithm and machine learning to anticipate the future outcome and guide the business in the right direction
- Using this technique thousands of predictive models can be created, deployed and maintained
- It automates data preparation, deployment of predictive modeling
#2) SAP IQ
- Formerly it is known as Sybase IQ. It transforms business and enhances the decision making with SAP IQ
- It is an extremely scalable and robust security
#3) SAP BusinessObjects BI
- It analyzes a high volume of data with greater performance
- It proactively grabs the new business opportunity and responds to potential threats
