C-Level Execs and Big Data

A natural next step.  The key will be how to make the translation from the analyst speak to the business strategy and process language.   " ... An overwhelming majority of executives from companies that have brought big data projects to production are pleased with the results, according to new research by Accenture Digital. However, they also cite security as the major challenge they face.

"One thing we've seen in the past year is that people are not really talking about what is big data anymore," says Vince Dell'Anno, managing director and global information management lead, Accenture Analytics, part of Accenture Digital. "They've done their experimentation. They've got some understanding of it. What they're talking about now is what happens when they need to scale to support, 1,000 or 2,000 or 5,000 users. That's where challenges like security and integration come into play." ... "