Corporate Big Data Lake. A New Approach to Using Big Data and Data Science in Business

Decision-making based on big data fundamentally changes how we work and live. With access to nearly unlimited corporate information, business leaders often do not understand what to do with it.

This book is written for those who want to modernize their approach to data processing and analytics and use it for the benefit of business. The author explains what a «data lake» is, why it is needed, and how to build it in your company, based on the experience of successful corporations.

The book is based on conversations with employees from more than 100 organizations: from multinational giants such as Google and Microsoft to small government enterprises. All of them are at different stages of deploying «data lakes», with most large enterprises today either having already created or being in the process of creating «data lakes».

Who needs this book:

• Business owners and executives.
• Big data specialists.
• IT leaders and big data architects.
• Data analysts and researchers in the field of Data Science
• Information security and data protection specialists.

And also software experts who never stop learning, discovering, and trying new things!

Alex Gorelik is a distinguished engineer at IBM software development company and also the founder and CTO of three big data startups.