BIG DATA QUARTERLY
Fall 2018
editor’s note | Joyce Wells
2 Taking Big Data and Analytics to the Next Level
departments
3 BIG DATA BRIEFING
Key news on big data product launches, partnerships, and acquisitions
11 Insights | David Judge
Digital Transformation: Using Data and Analytics in a Customer-Centric Way
18 Insights | André Christ
Six Pitfalls to Avoid During IT Automation
32 Trending now
Enter the Chief Data Officer: Q&A With Accenture Applied Intelligence’s Ramesh Nair
features
4 The Voice of Big Data
Ensuring Optimal Database Performance in the New Cloud World: Q&A With Patrick O’Keeffe, Quest Software VP of Engineering
6 Feature article | Joyce Wells
Tooling Up for Analytics
SPECIAL SECTION > BIG DATA 50
20 Introduction
21 Big Data 50: Companies Driving Innovation
30 Big Data By the Numbers
Data Governance: Bringing Order to Chaos
columns
36 Dataops playbook | Jim Scott
Data Operations Problems Created by Deep Learning
37 Cloud Currents
Michael Corey & Don Sullivan
Oracle DBAs Versus SQL Server DBAs
39 Governing Guidelines | Anne Buff
Data Governance: We Are Programmed to Receive
41 The Iot Insider | Bart Schouw
Good Habits Light the Way to IoT Innovation
43 Data Science Deep Dive | Bart Baesens
Data Warehouses, Data Marts, Operational Data Stores, and Data Lakes: What’s in a Name?