Originally Published in CIOReviewIndia  by Anand Kapoor, SVP - Data & Insights at Antuit

The vast majority of organizations consider data preparation their biggest bottleneck. It costs billions of dollars and delays discovering insights. But reliable data is a necessity in advanced analytics and without it, analytics solutions results are incomplete, or worse, inaccurate.

The big news in the big data ecosystem, as of late, is the recent merger between Cloudera and Hortonworks. As expected, there are many varied opinions on what the unification means for both the merged companies, as well as the future of Hadoop.

There’s a common misconception that big data analysis is driven purely by the innovation of new data mining and machine learning algorithms. And although these are critical components of big data, they’re just one piece of big data analysis.

Today’s enterprises operate at a global scale, managing multiple facilities and working with partners across several regions. For you, efficient operations is a necessity to remain competitive.