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A lot of clients are on the right track when they ask us about integration
points from their existing technology investments and their new Big Data
projects; indeed, that's always encouraging to hear, because it means that
the client is thinking beyond the “science experiment” phase that rarely
produces value. Note that there are many more integration points than we
can possibly cover in this chapter, so we encourage you to use this chapter
as a jumping-off point, rather than a definitive discussion of integration
options and patterns.
Analytic Application Integration
The IBM Big Data platform is designed from the ground up to simplify the
process of developing applications that run on top of it and to deliver ana-
lytical benefits through an underlying set of optimized Big Data technolo-
gies. This section describes some of the IBM Business Analytics software and
other applications that are integrated with the IBM Big Data platform. With
a Big Data ecosystem that spans well over 200 business partners, there are
many more applications than we could cover, of course, and the list grows
longer every day.
IBM Cognos Software
IBM Cognos BI, a component of IBM Cognos Enterprise, is widely deployed
business intelligence software that's been extended for use with Big Data
through its integration with the IBM Big Data platform. As of this writing,
Cognos can access data that is stored in Hive and use it for reporting (there
is more coming, so stay tuned). Cognos BI is integrated and certified with
InfoSphere BigInsights (BigInsights), InfoSphere Streams (Streams), DB2,
the IBM PureData System for Analytics (formerly known as Netezza), and
the IBM PureData System for Operational Analytics (formerly known as the
IBM Smart Analytics System).
IBM Cognos Real Time Monitoring (Cognos RTM), a component of IBM
Cognos Enterprise, is software that provides visualization and analysis on
real-time streaming analytics from Streams. Visualization is one of the major
challenges that Big Data brings to business analysts; in fact, some universities
today actually offer degrees in Big Data visualization. Throughout this topic
we've emphasized how data in motion is a differentiator for the IBM Big Data
platform, because velocity (one of the four Big Data characteristics) isn't being
 
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