Everyone has heard of Big Data. Business analytics offers companies of all types and sizes the opportunity to make decisions faster, get a leg up on the competition and even increase efficiency of their operations. But what are the stumbling blocks that users fear, and what gains are they expecting by implementing advanced analytics into the enterprise? This SlashGuide looks into those questions, which were posed in a Slashdot Media Pulse poll on Big Data Analytics conducted in August 2014. This resultant white paper provides a combination of IT practitioner and expert insights gathered from that survey.

According to most corporate decision makers and influencers, email is the single most important application they have deployed! The typical user spends two hours per day working in the corporate email system and sends or receives a median of 130 emails.

A social email and application experience takes advantage of the impact of social networking technologies on business processes and worker expectations.

This IDC Technology Spotlight paper takes a look at why Email remains the primary mode of communication in business today. While there is prevalent speculation that social software and other real-time communications applications will replace email, email nevertheless remains a stalwart in business operations. In addition, as relationships across all business communication channels continue to be redefined, innovative modes and methods of communication are emerging. As a result, locating the right data and information at the right time — while still critical — becomes increasingly complex. IDC expects that organizations will use social software, such as Notes and Domino 9x Social Edition, to complement existing tools and address these business needs for the foreseeable future.