Events

While it’s fun to play with new technology, organizations need to quickly figure out which tools and methods will help deliver real business value from big data. Complicating matters, the recent surge of innovation across Hadoop distributions and big data analytics platforms has created a confusing landscape for technical choices. Wonder no longer!

In our next webinar, Best (and worst) practices for advanced analytics on Hadoop data, we team up with Hortonworks to discuss real-world best practices for big data management and analytics programs, from technology selection to implementation.

Join us for a 45 minute webinar to:

• Demystify the Hadoop stack and differences between vendor distributions
• Discuss the role of different Hadoop stack components, including HCatalog, a metadata layer
• Share real-world advice for successfully implementing a big data analytics program

Find out more about the role of different components in the Hadoop stack, with tips and advice from industry veterans at ParAccel and Hortonworks, the only 100% open-source data management platform for Hadoop.

WEBINAR DETAILS

SPEAKERS

John Kreisa
VP Marketing, Hortonworks

Hannah Smalltree
Director of Product Marketing, ParAccel

Walt Maguire
Director of Analytics
ParAccel Inc.

Hortonworks and Yahoo! are pleased to host the 6th Annual Hadoop Summit, the leading conference for the Apache Hadoop community. This two-day event will feature many of the Apache Hadoop thought leaders who will showcase successful Hadoop use cases, share development and administration tips and tricks, and educate organizations about how best to leverage Apache Hadoop as a key component in their enterprise data architecture. It will also be an excellent networking event for developers, architects, administrators, data analysts, data scientists and vendors interested in advancing, extending or implementing Apache Hadoop.

MicroStrategy World is coming to Barcelona! MicroStrategy World will be held at the Centre Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB). It is conveniently located in the Diagonal Mar neighborhood, the newest section of Barcelona’s seafront.

In a rapidly changing market and economy, every business must make informed decisions fast. More and more organizations are joining the agile business intelligence movement—an emerging approach that enables information delivery at the speed of thought. Being adaptable and agile as you grow your data warehouse and business intelligence environments is key to success and profitability in a competitive marketplace. Projects that used to take months to complete are now expected to take weeks or days. So how can you respond to the needs of your organization as quickly as they change?

Big data analytics is about uncovering business opportunities. Many of the winners in today’s competitive markets get there—and stay there—by being superlative in how they analyze data, unearth new insights, and apply them to critical situations. Never before has so much data been available for business analysis, including internal, external, structured, and unstructured sources. Clickstreams from websites, social media, blogs and comments, contact center interactions, machine data, and enormous real-time event and transaction flows can be the raw material for innovative products and services. The key is to align technology, best practices, and analytic strategies with the business objectives your organization seeks to accomplish.

The World's Most Important Gathering of CIOs and Senior IT Executives

Disruptive technologies like cloud, social, mobile and information are revolutionizing business. The opportunity to leverage information innovation is right before us. The most successful CIOs and senior IT leaders will embrace the future by turning their attention to growth, cost reduction and competitive differentiation — all while filtering out the unproductive "noise" that can compromise clarity and purpose.

Faced with fundamental changes to the enterprise ecosystem, IT leaders must acquire a new ability to Focus on the issues that matter, Connect people and ideas, and Lead with creativity and confidence.

Business-driven BI is a critical element to successful, business-value-driven projects in this new economic environment. The Achilles’ heel of our industry has been the lack of true partnership between business and IT. Both sides have provided lip service to this partnership over the years, but very few have truly committed to it with structural changes that break apart the organizational silos we all live in. The only way we will succeed in advancing our businesses is by creating a more agile BI organization that has business users and IT professionals working side by side on the same team and under the direction of one executive sponsor. The winners will be those who can lead the change and growth of their organizations to maximize the people, processes, and technology across the enterprise.

Strata Conference brings together leading minds in big data: decision makers using the power of big data to drive business strategy, as well as practitioners who collect, analyze, and manipulate the data. Strata and Hadoop World have now joined forces to create the largest gathering of the Apache Hadoop community in the world, with emphasis on hands-on and business sessions on the Hadoop ecosystem.

Orlando: Emerging Technologies 2014

In the new big data environment that is coming to be, it’s all about volume, variety, and velocity. Data from multiple sources is arriving in large volumes on a near-continuous basis. How can you analyze it all fast enough to make informed decisions? Agile development, cloud computing, text analytics, virtualization, open source, cool BI, Web 2.0, social media, and mobile BI are evolving. New methods of working with big data, such as Hadoop and MapReduce, offer alternatives to traditional data warehousing—if you know how and when to use them.

A forum for innovative IT thought leaders

C-level executives in every industry are faced with large amounts of data, which can be viewed as both a burden and an opportunity. Executives tasked with overseeing company data must strike a balance between everyday data management tasks and effectively leveraging data through analytics and analysis.

The Big Data Summit is a unique opportunity for C-level executives involved in data storage, data management and data analysis to gather and discuss how companies can effectively manage, protect and leverage the growing amounts of data in the enterprise. With a focus on best practices, the event will allow attendees to explore strategies and technologies surrounding real-time data processing, data protection and privacy, meeting industry regulations and compliance, and data storage.