“The potential of “big data,” the massive explosion of sources of information from sensors, smart devices, and all other devices connected to the Internet, is probably under-appreciated in terms of its eventual business impact. However, to take maximum advantage of big data, IT is going to have to press the re-start button on its architecture for acquiring and understanding information. IT will need to construct a new way of capturing, organizing and analyzing data, because big data stands no chance of being useful if people attempt to process it using the traditional mechanisms of business intelligence, such as a data warehouses and traditional data-analysis techniques.” Dan Woods; Forbes
So does this apply to Industrial Area, I was heading through Terminal 5 in Heathrow this week, and articles banners around Big Data were all around me, and yes it is the latest “train” for people to board, but is it real in the Industrial Space? As I boarded a train, sat doing a mind thinking moment looking at the industrial operations/ automation landscape I realized why there is confusion is that in the industrial space, we talk about Enterprise Historians, and one person said to me that is big data! I do not think so, it is just one aspect of the growing industrial information dilemma facing all us over the next 5 years.
When I look at the predictions of Big Data by Industry from Gartner:
