Use Cases
Financial Services
Analyzing billions of daily trades in the cloud
CHALLENGE A regulatory authority, set up to monitor and regulate financial trading practices needed to be able to adapt to changing market dynamics while providing its analysts with the tools to interactively query multi-petabyte data sets. ...
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Driving car technology forward
CHALLENGE A major automotive manufacturer needed to ensure vehicle data moved seamlessly between data centers and the cloud to fulfill the growing demand in the sector for driverless technology and predictive maintenance. SOLUTION ...
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Embracing digital intelligence
CHALLENGE A US government agency focused on public health was overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of information generated by the hospitals, transport hubs together with the entire power grid and social media networks they analyzed. They strug...
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Enhanced forecasting reduces food waste
BUSINESS OBJECTIVE A high-end supermarket chain wished to deploy a business intelligence environment, to enable enhanced stock forecasting and other crucial, data-powered business processes. Enhanced forecasting reduces food waste Unlocking comput...
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Enhancing services for mobile users
CHALLENGE One of Europe’s largest mobile carriers, with 100 million customers, needed to consolidate subscriber data previously stored in a number of different databases, each supporting their own applications and data models with little con...
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Ensuring revenue growth with data resiliency
Guaranteeing service with near-zero RPO and RTO disaster recovery BUSINESS OBJECTIVE This successful healthcare analytics company wanted to ensure it could offer a 24/7 service platform to customers who rely on the data to care for their patien...
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Fortune 50 bank secures critical applications
Achieving data resiliency with near-zero RTO and RPO BUSINESS OBJECTIVE A market-leading bank was becoming increasingly reliant on its Big Data environment, and many Line-of-Business customers wished to migrate applications onto this environmen...
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Global semiconductor manufacturer switches data centers with zero downtime
CHALLENGE This global semiconductor company’s manufacturing operations rely heavily on processes powered by Hortonworks Data Platform. To prepare for business growth, the company aimed to enhance these data-driven processes. As a first step,...
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How a major retailer is using its resources efficiently
CHALLENGE One of the world’s largest retailers needed to replace its existing legacy storage and decided to implement Hadoop and the Cloud (Microsoft Azure) so it could use a second disaster recovery data center for compute workloads. It nee...
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How big data is saving lives
CHALLENGE Data produced by equipment such as heart monitors, ventilators, and wearable devices come in many different forms including images, video, and audio and are produced in virtually infinite volume. In the past, it has been difficult ...
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