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Obtaining Value from Big
Data for Service Systems,
Volume II
Obtaining Value from Big
Data for Service Systems,
Volume II
Big Data Technology
Second Edition
Stephen H. Kaisler
Frank Armour
J. Alberto Espinosa
William H. Money
Obtaining Value from Big Data for Service Systems, Volume II,
Second Edition: Big Data Technology
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Dedication
I would like to dedicate this book to my wife, Chryl, who has
encouraged me and supported me in its preparation.
—Stephen H. Kaisler
I would like to thank my wife, Delphine Clegg, for her support
and encouragement in preparing this book.
—J. Alberto Espinosa
To my wife, Rose, my parents, my children, and my grandchild:
you make everything beautiful.
—Frank Armour
To my wonderful wife, Libby, whose continuous support and
strength allow me to devote more energy to research and writing,
and to my daughter, Katy, whose enduring dedication and commitment
have taught me how to successfully close a project.
—William H. Money
Abstract
Big data is an emerging phenomenon that has enormous implications and
impacts upon business strategy, profitability, and process improvements.
All service systems generate big data these days, especially human-centered
service systems such as government (including cities), health care, educa-
tion, retail, finance, and so on. It has been characterized as the collection,
analysis, and use of data characterized by the five Vs: volume, velocity,
variety, veracity, and value (of data). As the plethora of data sources grows
from sensors, social media, and electronic transactions, new methods for
collecting or acquiring, integrating, processing, analyzing, understanding,
and visualizing data to provide actionable information and support inte-
grated and timely senior and executive decision making are required. The
discipline of applying analytic processes to find and combine new sources
of data and extract hidden crucial decision-making information from the
oceans of data is rapidly developing, but requires expertise to apply in
ways that will yield useful, actionable results for service organizations.
Many service-oriented organizations that are just beginning to invest in
big data collection, storage, and analysis need to address the numerous
issues and challenges that abound—technological, managerial, and legal.
Other organizations that have begun to use new data tools and techniques
must keep up with the rapidly changing and snowballing work in the
field. This booklet will help middle, senior, and executive managers to un-
derstand what big data is: how to recognize, collect, process, and analyze
it; how to store and manage it; how to obtain useful information from it;
and how to assess its contribution to operational, tactical, and strategic
decision making in service-oriented organizations.
Keywords
analytic science; big data; business analytics; business intelligence; data
science; descriptive analytics; enterprise architecture; NoSQL; predictive
analytics; service delivery; service-oriented architecture
Contents
Purpose .................................................................................................xi
Acknowledgments .................................................................................xiii
List of Acronyms ...................................................................................xv
Chapter 1 Big Data Infrastructure—A Technical Architecture
Overview ..........................................................................1
Chapter 2 Issues and Challenges in Big Data and Analytics .............47
Chapter 3 Conclusion......................................................................61
Appendix ..............................................................................................81
References .............................................................................................85
Further Reading ...................................................................................93
Glossary ...............................................................................................95
About the Contributors .........................................................................97
Index .................................................................................................101
