When you get right down to it, all the data in the world doesn’t really make a difference unless you can process it. And the most effective way for people to process giant waves of data (they keep inventing new words to describe the quantity) is to see it as an image.
That seemed to be the bottom line on the panel hosted by TechAmerica Foundation for its Big Data Roadshow on Energy.
Brian Jones, a principal of SAP Energy and Utilities, moderated the panel. He explained that big data and visualization were responsible for much of the U.S.’s ability to find sources of oil and gas previously thought impossible to extract. SAP’s database configuration, Hana, can process raw, structured and unstructured data up to 30,000 times faster than most other applications. This speed of processing information is also speeding up the decision making process, Jones said.
