The customer that I am working with has had a portion of the database that they will be shifting from Netezza to BigInsights. This will remove all of the queries and overhead on Netezza around those tables. This will be a big improvement and will allow the organization to deal with backup/recovery better as it decreases the size of the Netezza database.

The solution we built using InfoSphere was mainly aiming to: 

• Collect telematics data from vehicle engines.
• Do root cause analysis (RCA) on any engine failure. 
• Give recommendations to the customer and the service center, in real time.

This helped us to serve our customers better by giving real-time suggestions and proactive maintenance. Also, our engineering team was able to figure out frequent faults and incorporate design changes to avoid them in future.

This feature has been looked at for social media analysis esp sentiment analysis by the marketing groups trying to understand product/service feedback on social media

I led a project in which my company deployed a big data solution in less than four month with a Hadoop cluster of more than 100 datanodes and 3 namenodes to perform big data analytic from datasets extracted of several data sources such as social networks, RFID sensors and other type of sensors.

It enabled us to process low-level detailed transactional data that previously was not processed.

It gives us the option of extending our analytics system. Now, a customer can move part of their data from Netezza into a Hadoop cluster. What's more, they can run algorithms directly on HDFS using R.

We didn’t use these products in production environment. For test only.