The document discusses trends in big data and business intelligence (BI) for 2017. It predicts that data volume and variety will continue to grow rapidly, driving increased adoption of tools like Hadoop. However, speed will become more important, leading to faster databases and optimized query engines. Integration of IoT, cloud, and big data is also expected to increase, as is the use of big data to enhance customer experience. Self-service analytics platforms will grow in popularity to make big data more accessible, and deep learning will be applied more to analyze unstructured data. Metadata catalogs and data virtualization will help users discover and access data. Architectures will mature to support both batch and interactive analysis. Governments may increase scrutiny of data handling