This document discusses big data and real-time analytics. It notes that legacy data architectures were designed for smaller amounts of data and are expensive and slow. The Vertica platform is introduced as a purpose-built solution for big data that provides faster performance at lower cost compared to traditional data warehouses. Vertica uses a columnar database and massively parallel processing to enable real-time analytics on large, diverse datasets. Examples of Vertica customers in various industries are also provided.