The document discusses the challenges data scientists face in operationalizing big data projects and making the results accessible for broader organizational use. It argues that within the next 18 months, big data will become integrated into standard reporting and analysis used by all employees, not just data scientists. However, current tools like Hadoop are too slow for interactive work. New technologies are needed that provide massively parallel processing and tightly integrate with Hadoop, but also allow for use of existing reporting tools. This will require analytical platforms with in-memory processing capabilities and low latency.