Apache Spark is the 'analytics operating system' for the Data era. A platform for continuous insights, advanced analytics, and machine learning.

1. Power of data. Simplicity of design. Speed of innovation.
IBM Spark

2. Analytics Operating System

3. Spark processes and analyzes data from ANY data source
Business Applications and Business Intelligence
Apache Spark
Spark
SQL
Spark
Streaming
MLlib
(machine
learning)
GraphX
Hadoop Database Mainframe
Data-
warehouse
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4. Spark is complementary to Hadoop, but much faster, with in-memory performance
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Logistic Regression in Hadoop & Spark
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5. Clients are evolving their approach to data
Big Data Maturity
Value Operations Data
Warehousing
Line of Business
and Analytics
New Business
Imperatives
We are here
Lower the Cost
of Storage
Warehouse
Modernization
• Data lake
• Data offload
• ETL offload
• Queryable archive
and staging
Data-informed
Decision Making
• Full dataset
analysis (no more
sampling)
• Extract value from
non-relational data
• 360 view of all
enterprise data
• Exploratory analysis
and discovery
Business
Transformation
• Create new
business models
• Risk-aware
decision making
• Fight fraud and
counter threats
• Optimize
operations
• Attract, grow,
retain customers
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6. Why does Spark matter to a business?
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1 Spark makes it easier to access
and work with all data
2 Spark lets you develop line-of-business
applications faster
3 Spark learns from data
and delivers in real-time
- Enables new data-based use
cases
- All data: Internal/External,
Structured/Unstructured
- Real-time insights, from all
data sources
- Automates analytics with
machine learning
- Clients that lead in data, lead
in their industry

7. IBM has the largest investment in Spark of any company in the world
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Top committer/contributor
300+ inventors
Commitment to educate 1 million data scientists
Contributed SystemML
Founding member of AMPLab
Partnerships in the ecosystem

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