In 2014, businesses stopped just taking about big data and got serious about big data deployments, moving many of their initiatives from test environments to production. The phenomenon is shaking up business structures, causing roles to shift and evolve and seemingly birthing new use cases with every passing day.
A recent partnership between The Weather Company and IBM will allow companies to better manage the impact of weather on business performance. According to The Weather Company, weather has an economic impact of half a trillion dollars annually in the US alone.
Dickeys Barbecue Pit, which operates 514 restaurants across the U.S., has worked with big data and business intelligence service providers iOLAP to develop a proprietary system it calls Smoke Stack.
CIR food discusses how the use of SAP Predictive Analysis and SAP HANA transforms how they run their business today, serving more hungry customers at restaurants, hospitals, schools, and other institutions.