Monthly Archives: August 2013

Where I grew up , our elders used to advise us that we should never hold a tiger’s tail . The story is that if you do catch hold of a tiger’s tail – you will have to round and round with the tiger pretty much for ever . People will cheer for you asContinue reading “Holding a tiger’s tail”

When data becomes big – and it gives pretty cool insights of high value , the big hurdle facing customers will be their own deployment challenges. Where should this magic solution live ? And how exactly will we find out ? Several factors play into this – and I am just mentioning a few thatContinue reading “Big Data Deployment – Planning is everything”

Ever since I started working on SAP’s big data initiative , I have been having a hard time defining what exactly is big data . So, my gang and I had many a discussion and figured out that the best way to figure this out is to talk to customers . I called this aContinue reading “Defining Big Data, by listening to customers”