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The impact of information technology






                           Big Data




               4.1   What is Big Data?

                             Big Data is a term for extremely large collections of data that may be
                             analysed to reveal patterns, trends and associations.

                                  The ability to harness these vast amounts of information could
                                   transform an organisation’s performance management.

                                  However, many conventional methods of storing and processing
                                   data will not work.


               4.2   Processing Big Data

                    The processing of Big Data is known as Big Data analytics. For example:

                     –     Hadoop software allows the processing of large data sets by utilising large
                           data sets simultaneously.

                     –     Google Analytics tracks many features of website traffic.




                  Illustrations and further practice



                  Now read Illustration 6 from Chapter 5 of the Study Text.



























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