Hadoop/Big Data Survey Question Title * 1. Where is your company/organization in the process of implementing Hadoop-based initiatives? Exploring and educating (building competencies in Hadoop clusters and related technologies) Conducting a PoC (confirming analytic effectiveness and clarifying analytic objectives) Developing first solution Piloting first solution (commercial objective and metrics for success defined) First solution fully deployed Supporting multiple business critical analytics Other (please specify) Question Title * 2. Currently, what are your company's/organization's top three (3) uses of Hadoop? Current uses of Hadoop #1 Archiving more data Archiving new types of data Data transformation (ETL/ELT), data quality, and preparation Data provisioning (delivering prepared data) Operational application support (running applications on Hadoop data) Business intelligence (e.g., reporting, dashboards, visualization) Basic analytics (statistics, text, search, patterns, etc.) Advanced analytics (e.g., risk, propensity, affinity, optimization, etc.) #1 Current uses of Hadoop menu #2 Archiving more data Archiving new types of data Data transformation (ETL/ELT), data quality, and preparation Data provisioning (delivering prepared data) Operational application support (running applications on Hadoop data) Business intelligence (e.g., reporting, dashboards, visualization) Basic analytics (statistics, text, search, patterns, etc.) Advanced analytics (e.g., risk, propensity, affinity, optimization, etc.) #2 Current uses of Hadoop menu #3 Archiving more data Archiving new types of data Data transformation (ETL/ELT), data quality, and preparation Data provisioning (delivering prepared data) Operational application support (running applications on Hadoop data) Business intelligence (e.g., reporting, dashboards, visualization) Basic analytics (statistics, text, search, patterns, etc.) Advanced analytics (e.g., risk, propensity, affinity, optimization, etc.) #3 Current uses of Hadoop menu Other (please specify) Question Title * 3. In 12 - 18 months, what do you expect your company's/organization's top three (3) uses of Hadoop will be? Expected uses of Hadoop in 12 - 18 months #1 Archiving more data Archiving new types of data Data transformation (ETL/ELT), data quality, and preparation Data provisioning (delivering prepared data) Operational application support (running applications on Hadoop data) Business intelligence (e.g., reporting, dashboards, visualization) Basic analytics (statistics, text, search, patterns, etc.) Advanced analytics (e.g., risk, propensity, affinity, optimization, etc.) #1 Expected uses of Hadoop in 12 - 18 months menu #2 Archiving more data Archiving new types of data Data transformation (ETL/ELT), data quality, and preparation Data provisioning (delivering prepared data) Operational application support (running applications on Hadoop data) Business intelligence (e.g., reporting, dashboards, visualization) Basic analytics (statistics, text, search, patterns, etc.) Advanced analytics (e.g., risk, propensity, affinity, optimization, etc.) #2 Expected uses of Hadoop in 12 - 18 months menu #3 Archiving more data Archiving new types of data Data transformation (ETL/ELT), data quality, and preparation Data provisioning (delivering prepared data) Operational application support (running applications on Hadoop data) Business intelligence (e.g., reporting, dashboards, visualization) Basic analytics (statistics, text, search, patterns, etc.) Advanced analytics (e.g., risk, propensity, affinity, optimization, etc.) #3 Expected uses of Hadoop in 12 - 18 months menu Other (please specify) Question Title * 4. What types of data is your company/organization currently using in its Hadoop environment? (Select all that apply.) Operational data from ERP, CRM, and other enterprise systems Log data from servers, applications and other devices Online data from social, informational, interactive and user-generated sites Geographic data from geo-specific applications and/or mobile devices/apps External data from partners (such as supply chain, logistics and procurement) External data purchased from third parties Content stored in documents and media files Streaming data (such as FIXE, NYSE and weather data) Other (please specify) Question Title * 5. What other platforms is your company/organization most likely to integrate with its Hadoop environment? (Select all that apply.) Data integration tools Business intelligence (reporting and dashboard) tools Visualization tools Analytic tools Transactional (OLTP) databases Analytical (ADBMS) databases Other (please specify) Question Title * 6. Based on the expectations set prior to implementation, results to date from Hadoop-based initiatives have been: Significantly less than expected Somewhat less than expected Met expectations Somewhat better than expected Significantly better than expected Question Title * 7. What are your company's/organization's top three (3) Hadoop-related challenges? #1 Knowledge and experience with the platform Availability of skills Amount of technology development and engineering required Data transformation, preparation and manipulation Data provisioning (delivering prepared data) Analytic development Operational application support (running applications on Hadoop data) Interoperability Performance Enterprise-class features Stability SQL Access Constant change in the platform Compatibility with prior versions #1 menu #2 Knowledge and experience with the platform Availability of skills Amount of technology development and engineering required Data transformation, preparation and manipulation Data provisioning (delivering prepared data) Analytic development Operational application support (running applications on Hadoop data) Interoperability Performance Enterprise-class features Stability SQL Access Constant change in the platform Compatibility with prior versions #2 menu #3 Knowledge and experience with the platform Availability of skills Amount of technology development and engineering required Data transformation, preparation and manipulation Data provisioning (delivering prepared data) Analytic development Operational application support (running applications on Hadoop data) Interoperability Performance Enterprise-class features Stability SQL Access Constant change in the platform Compatibility with prior versions #3 menu Other (please specify) Question Title * 8. Which Hadoop skills have you found to be in hard to acquire? (select all that apply) ?Statistics MapReduce SQL on Hadoop Other (please specify) Question Title * 9. How does Hadoop 2.0/YARN feature in your plans? This is not a priority for our environment Actively evaluating Hadoop 2.0/YARN for our environment Actively deploying Hadoop 2.0/YARN Question Title * 10. Which of the following statements reflect your considerations for SQL-on-Hadoop? This is not a priority for our environment Actively evaluating options such as Impala, Stinger and HAWQ Actively deploying a SQL-on-Hadoop query engine (specify) Question Title * 11. How many nodes are in your company's/organization's current Hadoop cluster? 1 - 4 5 - 9 10 - 19 20 - 49 50 - 99 100 - 199 200+ Question Title * 12. About how many employees work at your company? 1 - 19 20 - 49 50 - 99 100 - 499 500 - 999 1000 - 5000 5000+ Question Title * 13. 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