Big Data and Business Analytics

102  •  Big Data and Business Analytics

the nature of the problem at hand. Of course, it is important to note that

HPA and big data needn’t be inextricably linked. ere are some classes of

analytic problems that involve only modest amounts of data but are none-

theless compute intensive. ese, too, can benet from HPA techniques

and principles.

Amazingly, the discipline of high- performance analytics continues to

move forward at a rapid pace. As storage gets even more aordable and

greater amounts of processing power become ever- cheaper, it’s easy for

us to envision “analytical streaming” in real time where insights are not

discrete events but are part of the minute- by- minute operation of the

enterprise, woven into the fabric of every mean ...