Big data refers to the tools, processes and procedures allowing an organization to create, manipulate and manage very large data sets and storage infrastructure. Big Data is a combination of varied technologies and complex enough for one to offer pre-defined or packaged solutions to customers. 

Big data tools help organizations to collect, process and analyze huge volumes of data across diverse platforms and data sets and provide with detailed trends, predictions, reports and visualizations on customer insights, competitive strategies, and metrics to help businesses make decisions on various projects. Big data holds great promise for a variety of small medium and large enterprises and industries. 

Big Data is broad and encompasses many trends and new technology developments, a very good overview of what is considered to be the top few emerging technologies that are helping users handle Big Data in a cost-effective manner.

Big Data Solutions:

• Data Acquisition
• Data Integration
• Data Warehousing
• Data Modelling
• Predictive Analytics
• Data Visualization
• Reporting

Big Data Technologies:

• NoSQL Databases
• Hadoop Ecosystem
• Spark
• Hive
• In-memory Databases
• Artificial Intelligence
• Prescriptive Analytics