Big Data Analytics

First and foremost, I would like to acknowledge the hard work from the Information Agenda community in creating a world-class reference material. I have
heavily referenced the material here, including the Business Maturity Model, the
Solution Architecture framework, and a number of case studies. I would like to
acknowledge Bob Keseley, Wayne Jensen, and Mick Fullwood for conceiving
the ideas and organizing the reference material. I would like to acknowledge Tim
Davis for his encouragement and for providing financial services examples. Jeff
Jonas provided me with inspiration for experimenting with the ideas and provided me with much of the backbone for this book. The technical ideas were created
with help from Beth Brownhill, Paul Christensen, Elizabeth Dial, Ram Dorairaj,
Tommy Eunice, Rich Harken, Eberhard Hechler, Bob Johnston, Noman Mohammed, Peter Harrison, Daryl BC Peh, Steve Rigo, and Barry Rosen. The Dallas
Global Solutions Center team—Christian Loza, Tom Slade, Mathews Thomas,
and Janki Vora—provided valuable experimentations on the ideas. Mehul Shah,
Emeline Tjan, Livio Ventura, Wolfgang Bosch, Steve Trigg, Don Bahash, and
Jessica White have provided valuable business value analysis components in
this book. I would also like to thank the Communication Sector Industry
Consulting team—Ken Kralick, Dirk Michelsen, Tushar Mehta, Richard
Lanahan, Rick Flamand, Linda Moss, and David Buck—for providing the
opportunities, customers, and contributions to the Big Data Analytics solutions.