Big Data Analytics - A Fundamental Shift

Executive Boardroom - 2:55 pm - 3:20 pm

We have moved from an information-poor to an information-rich society. Practically unlimited availability of data, computing, networking and socio-mobile connectivity are fundamentally altering our world. In particular, they are enabling businesses to become more effective and efficient by using big data analytics - collecting all relevant data and automating their processing to drive decision making. This represents a fundamental shift from traditional business analytics, where limited amount of structured data is batch-processed to produce standard Business Intelligence reports. We will assess the current state of big data analytics, technology and business trends, and their enormous implications to the future of all businesses.


  1. How Big Data analytics is different from traditional business analytics
  2. What businesses are getting out of Big Data analytics
  3. Why Big Data analytics will become critical to every business