OPen Source Business Conference - OSBC 2013

In 2013, how the enterprise gathers, mines, analyzes and puts data to work separates winners from losers in the market. But this is nothing new. Major enterprises have long used sophisticated data warehousing and data mining strategies, built on complex and expensive proprietary software and hardware, to gain competitive advantage. In the past decade, however, open source has increasingly lowered the bar to Big Data adoption. More and more, Big Data has become the key to owning new markets and growing business – and open source has fueled the Big Data trend, serving as the force of innovation in cloud, data and mobile technologies.