The promise of extracting value from data, your companies’ most valuable asset can be made real with the proper strategy and planning. Learn about the elements required to design a “smart” infrastructure that is capable of analyzing a mix of structured and unstructured data to deliver valuable business insight. Discover new revenue opportunities, market trends, and customer preferences. Data Scientists, Predictive Modeling, and Data Mining can deliver significant competitive advantages, but only if your infrastructure is designed with “analytics” in mind. Learn about new technologies like Hadoop that enable the processing of large and diverse data sets across clustered systems.