The IT department often puts in trouble when departments of their demand a Big Data solution.
Most stakeholders is not clear at the beginning of such projects for which the anticipated workloads infrastructure is to be aligned. This makes the trade-off between scalability and cost. A new approach on a reference architecture provides a remedy.
Anyone ordering a motor, should know to what this vehicle is used. Depending on the use of either a high-performance diesel or a petrol engine more quickly, or more recently, a more economical hybrid or electric drive is selected. Departments order being reinforced an engine - in other words: a new infrastructure - in the IT department, whose future application is largely unknown.
We are talking about the development and implementation of a business idea in the field of Big Data. A typical use case from the marketing, for example, the realization of a click-stream analysis. A distribution typical application is the creation of an after-sales analysis, which is expected by the IT to detect the systems that consolidates and analyzes, thus let himself be "predictive analytics" make forecasts for the future buying behavior of customers. Also in the production and in many other areas are increasingly the need developed for a variety of applications in the area of Big Data Analytics.
Terra Incognita
Essentially, three goals can recognize those who are persecuted by departments attended:
1. The optimization of existing business processes
2. The development of new products and services
3. The chance of an enhanced service orientation
As companies often do not know at the time of request, how an application is developed, are the IT department prior to insufficient information on how it is to align the infrastructure and what scalability is required. Nevertheless, from the department a sustainable solution "for all cases" expected.
