Big Data Boom

Big Data Going Mainstream: With the burgeoning popularity of Big Data among Indian businesses, we can expect a major paradigm shift in 2015. The sectors like Insurance, Healthcare, Tourism, Retail and Government are going to extensively use analytics for everything from driving growth, taking business critical decisions, improving operational excellence to completely transforming their business strategy. So, expect a boom in Big Data.

SMAC: Most of the organizations are struggling on how to derive actionable insights from the combined data of social media, mobile, analytics and cloud. Currently, the data derived from these sources are used in silos. But 2015 will see the social media data getting blended with other types of data and thus organization will be unlocking a treasure of key insights about markets, segments and customers.

Big Data Security Analytics to Gain Momentum: With the large amount of valuable data floating around, security emerges as a key concern. In India, Big Data security analytics is still at nascent stage but we can expect some major breakthroughs in the coming year. There will surely be new tools and products to manage and control those ever increasing quantities of data to detect in real-time any possible security threat. Moreover, for Big Data security analytics to be meaningful, organizations first need to clearly lay out the possible threats.