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Making Big Data Work for Your Business

By : Sudhi Ranjan Sinha
Book Image

Making Big Data Work for Your Business

By: Sudhi Ranjan Sinha

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Making Big Data Work for Your Business
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, you have worked on various techniques to manage Big Data Analytics initiatives more effectively. In this chapter, you have:

  • Understood how Big Data projects are different from normal technology projects

  • Understood how to uniquely define success criteria for Big Data projects

  • Understood how to avoid the limitations of traditional project management methodologies while pursuing Big Data projects

To manage the unique aspects of Big Data projects, we discussed an iterative and adaptive Explore-Validate-Amplify framework:

We further discussed:

  • How to establish a governance model for Big Data initiatives

  • How to slightly tweak the approach for customer-facing applications that result from Big Data initiatives

  • How to take a more comprehensive view while building your enterprise Big Data platform

You should adapt the various techniques that we have discussed in this chapter to suit your business context and culture. As we have often reiterated, we are still in the early stages of...