In this webinar, Carl W. Olofson, Research Vice President, Application Development and Deployment for IDC, and Dale Kim, Director of Industry Solutions for MapR, will provide an insightful outlook for Hadoop in 2015, and will outline why enterprises should consider using Hadoop as a "Decision Data Platform" and how it can function as a single platform for both online transaction processing (OLTP) and real-time analytics.
7. Unified Information Management Architecture
Structured
Unstructured
Rich Media
ERP
CRM
PLM
SCM
HR
Clickstream
Spreadsheets
XML
Forms
Industry
standards
(UCCNet, HL7
SWIFT, FIX)
RSS
Documents
Email
Annotations
Image
Video
Audio
Executives
Managers
Financial
Analysts
Business
Analysts
Quantitative
Analysts
LOB Staff
Suppliers
Partners
Customers
Government
IT Staff
Web
Unified
Access
and
Analysis
Semi-structured
Unified
Mgmt
for retention,
security,
master data
management
Enriched
Metadata
(Semantic
+
Structured)
7
Single
Decision
Data
Platform
8. The Real Time Enterprise
Dynamically Responds to Business Requirements
• Acts on events as they happen.
• Can change data and operations to fit shifting business
needs.
• Ingests large amounts of data, including from Big Data
sources, and makes that data actionable.
Such Speed and Flexibility Require
• Agile process definitions and application execution.
• Ability to store and retrieve data at the speed of business.
• Ability to support real-time decisioning.
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9. Real-Time Decisioning
Strategic
• Deep analytic models and data
warehouse reporting inform executive
decision making
• Data analysts comb tons of data,
executive management makes the
decisions
Operational
• Project or product-focused data is
collected and analyzed
• End-users run queries against data
marts and adjust their project or product
plans
Tactical
• Immediately available current data and
streaming data are presented.
• Line and field staff, or automated
computer algorithms, make decisions.
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10. Decision Management Framework
Tactical decisions
must apply the policy
or rule in a specific
case, which lends itself
to automation
Operational decisions
focus on a specific
project or process and
result in the formation of
a type of policy or rule
that drives tactical
decisions.
Strategic decision set
the long-term directions
for the organization, a
product, a service, or an
initiative and result in
guidelines within which
operational decisions are
made
Scope and Degree of Risk
Strategic
Decisions
Operational
Decisions
Tactical
Decisions
Degree of Automation
Level of Collaboration
Number of Decisions
A second trend in enterprise architecture has been big data overwhelming the existing workload-specific systems which are in production. (list of requirements for each of these on the side in text)
People started with mainframes or operational systems which run ERP, finance, CRM and other mission-critical applications. They require… (pick out attributes you want to stress on the left)
You also have data warehouses, marts, data mining, and other analytical systems which pull data from these operational and other systems for providing insights to the business for decision making
The amount/variety of data has been overloading these systems. You reach a certain point as you try to ingest new types of data when these systems are not cost-effective to scale to terabytes or petabytes of data
The first reality is that as people put Hadoop into production, to relieve the pressure from other systems in their enterprise architecture it needs to reliable . Hadoop needs to be held to the same enterprise standards as your Oracle, SAP, Teradata, NetApp storage, or any other enterprise system.
Many organizations are putting Hadoop into their data center to provide (list of use cases underneath) … it can do all of this and more, but
For Hadoop to act as a system of record , it must provide the same guarantees for SLA’s, performance, data protection, and more
Most importantly, Hadoop has the potential for both analytics AND operations. It can be used to optimize the data warehouse provide batch data refining or storage. But Hadoop can provide many operational analytics or database operations/jobs when done right.
This analogy applies as well to building a data platform – you have to architect for the future. This allows you to build higher, stronger, and faster, without retrofitting later down the road (anyone who has added a second story to their house can attest to the additional cost and construction delays if you have to reinforce a foundation which wasn’t designed to hold the stress)
For business-critical applications you must have data protection and security (availability, data protection, and recovery), high performance (with random read-write system), multi-tenancy (to support multiple business units, isolate applications or user data,…), provide good resource and workload management to support multiple applications, and open standards to integrate with the rest of the enterprise data architecture
This data foundation allows you to support new data-driven applications (both operational and analytical) , maintain service level agreements with the business, provide information you can trust and count on being there when you need it, and ultimately being the best TCO for the long-run. Supporting enterprise systems without retrofits or multiple clusters to work around platform deficiencies (e.g., to support operational/online applications in Hadoop today, you need a separate HBase cluster – separate from the rest of your Hadoop cluster/investment)
Because only MapR can reliably run both operational and analytical applications on one platform/cluster, MapR enables a faster closed-loop process between operational applications and analytics. This means:
interactive marketers and algorithms can update the rules engines more quickly and provide more real-time targeting of offers and relevant content to consumers
Fraud models are kept more up to date with the latest patterns to better detect anomalies and take action more quickly on bad actors
“Allowed us to process volumes of data in a timeframe previously not doable which in turn allowed us to make recommend offers to customers more relevant and timely.” (quote from customer via Techvalidate)