Business leaders recognize that their companies, industries, and markets are being disrupted by nimble digital players that are leveraging real-time information to respond to customers, predict trends, and manage operations. To compete in this new environment, they need to engage with customers, partners, and employees with speed and agility, to understand what is happening in their environments as they change, and to be able to employ cognitive technologies to predict and get ahead of trends.
Emerging real-time data solutions, including those based on open source projects such as Apache Spark and Apache Kafka and commercial offerings, many of which are supported in the cloud, are enabling just about any business to be transformed into a real time enterprise. Download this special white paper to understand the challenges, use cases, best practices and expert tips.