As the amount of information grows exponentially and the clockspeed of business gets faster, providing a streamlined flow of real-time data analysis and decision making in key processes will be the foundation for better performance and competitive advantage.

FORBES: A Vision for Unifying Access to Data and Documents

This real-time Fast Data collection and analysis can help optimize traffic management, provide forensic analysis, identify traffic hotspots or help with crime prevention.

FORBES: Fast Data Gets A Jump On Big Data

Clearly, eBay has high-functioning systems in place for data collection, real-time analysis, targeted distribution, automated response, etc.

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Real-time analysis of Big Data is within the reach of almost any business model in any industry.

FORBES: Big Bets On Big Data

D. in real-time analysis of large amounts of data.

FORBES: Data of Reckoning

Some offer their members a wide variety of third-party research and analysis and the transparency offered by the posting of real-time transaction data so that participants can make informed investment decisions.

FORBES: The Case For Private Company Stock Marketplaces

The transformation driven by a data lake will implement the paradigm of operational intelligence, a more real-time, automated way of using both structured and unstructured data, both from real-time sources and historical repositories in a way that allows analysis to be as automated as possible.

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