Purchasing decisions continue to be influenced heavily by business executives and users who want more agility and the option for small personal and departmental deployments to prove success," said Rita Sallam, research vice president at Gartner. This statement came alongside their new research that found the Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics worldwide market to reach $18.3 billion in 2017, a 7.3 % increase from the previous year. Furthermore, they forecasted that by the end of 2020, the market will grow to $22.8 billion.
The figures above are not that surprising, since BI and analytics are technology-driven process, whose purpose is to help business managers and other personnel to make better and informed decisions regarding business practices and operations. Almost looks similar, business analytics is considered more advanced than BI due to its ability to help you move forward and understand what might be going to happen or called “predicting the future”. However, both BI and analytics needs data to do their jobs
According to research done by Northwestern University in 2015, a total of 2.5 Exabyte of data are produced each day. With that much data, it is challenging for companies to store, manage, analyze, and utilize, not to mention that the data comes from many different sources. Multiple data sources can result in messy data or multiple data sets that follow different structure.
Data integration can be a solution to tackle this challenge. It is the combination of technical and business processes used to combine data from disparate sources into meaningful and valuable information. Data integration is needed to ensure that data sources are all speaking the same language. By doing this, it will be beneficial for companies in the long haul, since data is needed to retain customers, open new business opportunities, and many more.
One of such solutions is the Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization, a data supply and integration solution that sits in front of multiple data sources and allows them to be treated as single source, delivering the needed data—in the required form—at the right time to any application or user. By using JBoss, users have the ability to access real-time data analytics, so businesses are optimized and contribute to greater agility and competitiveness among businesses. Moreover, JBoss is supported as a Hadoop-compliant data source, which enables the use of analytics tools that integrate with Hadoop It would give variety of choices to users, so that in-depth and thorough business analytics can be produced and business objectives are achieved appropriately.
As one of the biggest IT infrastructure solution provider in Indonesia, Virtus is committed in helping business partners fulfilling the increasing needs of customers in implementing data analytics and guiding them during the process.
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