SMB Adoption of Big Data in Business Matters, UK

As the Big Data market continues to grow, there are now very few organisations which do not have already, or at least plan to start studying or implementing a strategy to use their data. Ambitious SMBs are trying to devise ways to use their data to gain competitive advantage as every issue they face can be impacted by Big Data including marketing, customer satisfaction, purchasing, equipment maintenance and healthcare. SMBs are savvy enough to know that advanced technology is no longer the sole domain of the enterprise.

The Three Phases of SME Adoption of Big Data - published in FreshBusinessThinking.com 
A guide to help Small/Medium Enterprise understand and plan for Big Data benefits in the specific context of their environments.

Ben Connors, TIBCO Jaspersoft commenting on the state of Big Data Analytics June 2014, London

KOSTENGÜNSTIGE BIG-DATA-TECHNOLOGIEN (The Cost of Big Data Technologies)

  This article appears in the June 10, 2014 edition of the German IT Director magazine (www.it-director.de) and discusses comparisons of purchase and implementation costs of Big Data technologies.
 

Big Data Analytics: Diverse Use Cases, Diverse Architectural Approaches (AKA 'One Size Does Not Fit All'!)  This is a video of a presentation at the Big Data Analytics conference in London, UK held in June 2014.

Big Data Analytics – Architectural Choices for Diverse Use Cases
Lots of approaches for Big Data reporting and analytics, depending on use case

Jaspersoft and Amazon Redshift: Kony demos their Big Data system for mobile

Demo of Jaspersoft/Amazon Redshift Big Data system