Big data analytics tools from vendors like IBM, Tableau, and SAS can help organizations process and analyze big data. For smaller organizations, Excel is often used, while larger organizations employ data mining, predictive analytics, and dashboards. Business intelligence applications include OLAP, data mining, and decision support systems. Big data comes from many sources like web logs, sensors, social networks, and scientific research. It is defined by the volume, variety, velocity, veracity, variability, and value of the data. Hadoop and MapReduce are common technologies for storing and analyzing big data across clusters of machines. Stream analytics is useful for real-time analysis of data like sensor data.