As corporate data warehouses bulge with tranactional data, opportunities increase for various vendors to provide toolsets needed to process and mine the data in meaningful and efficient ways.
A foundation of Cloud computing and at the epicenter of “big data” solutions, Apache Hadoop enables data-intensive distributed applications to work with thousands of nodes and exabytes of data.
User collaboration is an important part of the future, not only for technology companies but for the business world at large. Software - especially open source software that will facilitate that process is poised to do well.
