Google, IBM, Cisco, Smartbin, SIKO Products, Omega Engineering, Apple, d SAP) Data Management Infrastructure Providers(Dell NetApp, IBM, Oracle Teradata, Microsoft, Amazon(Amazon Web Services), IBM(Bluemix) Salesforce. com, Hadoop clusters, MapReduce, NoSQL, Spark, Kafka, Flume) Data Warehouse Providers(IBM, Oracle, Teradata, Snowflake, Redshift SAS, Tableau) Middleware Providers(Microstrategy, Plum, Oracle, SAP, IBM, SAS, Tableau, and many more) Equifax, TransUnion, Acxiom, Merkle, Epsilon, Avention, ESRI. olesle Data Service Providers(Nielsen, Experian, Omniture, Comscore, Google, cs Focuse d Software Developers(Microsoft, Tableau, SAS, Gephi IBM, KXEN, Dell, Salford Systems, Revolution Analytics, Alteryx Rapid Miner, KNIME, Rulequest, NeuroDimensions, FICO, AIIMS, AMPL, Frontline, GAMS, Gurobi, Lindo Systems, Maximal, NG Data, Ayata Rockwell, Simio, Palisade, Frontline, Exsys, XpertRule, Teradata, apache Tibco, Informatica, SAP, Hitachi) Application Developers: Industry Specific or General(IBM, SAS, Teradata, Nike, Sportsvision, Acxiom, FICO, Experian, YP. com, Towerdata, Qualia Simulmed ia, Shazam, Soundhound, Musixmatch, Waze, Apple, Google Amazon, Uber, Lyft, Curb, Ola, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Unmetric, Analytics Industry analysts and Influencers(Gartner Group, The Data Warehousing Institute, Forrester, McKinsey, INFORMS, AIS, Teradata, SAS) Academic Institutions and Certification Agencies(IBM, Microsoft, Microstrategy, Oracle, SAS, Tableau, Teradata, INFORMS Regulators and Policy Makers(Federal Communications Commission Federal Trade Commission. International Telecommunication Union. National Institute of Standards and Technology) Analytics User Organizations(many topic-specific and local groups) 3. Which companies are dominant in more than one category? It appears that several larger IT companies have products and services in several of these areas. Examples include IBM, Microsoft, SAS, Dell, and SAP Is it better to be the strongest player in one category or be active in multiple categories? Student opinions will vary. It can be argued that cross-discipline strength provides better integration and insight, or that that domination in multiple areas reduces completion or innovation Copyright C2018 Pearson Education, Inc.11 Copyright © 2018Pearson Education, Inc. Google, IBM, Cisco, Smartbin, SIKO Products, Omega Engineering, Apple, and SAP) • Data Management Infrastructure Providers (Dell NetApp, IBM, Oracle, Teradata, Microsoft, Amazon (Amazon Web Services), IBM (Bluemix), Salesforce.com, Hadoop clusters, MapReduce, NoSQL, Spark, Kafka, Flume) • Data Warehouse Providers (IBM, Oracle, Teradata, Snowflake, Redshift, SAS, Tableau) • Middleware Providers (Microstrategy, Plum, Oracle, SAP, IBM, SAS, Tableau, and many more) • Data Service Providers (Nielsen, Experian, Omniture, Comscore, Google, Equifax, TransUnion, Acxiom, Merkle, Epsilon, Avention, ESRI.org) • Analytics Focused Software Developers (Microsoft, Tableau, SAS, Gephi, IBM, KXEN, Dell, Salford Systems, Revolution Analytics, Alteryx, RapidMiner, KNIME, Rulequest, NeuroDimensions, FICO, AIIMS, AMPL, Frontline, GAMS, Gurobi, Lindo Systems, Maximal, NGData, Ayata, Rockwell, Simio, Palisade, Frontline, Exsys, XpertRule, Teradata, Apache, Tibco, Informatica, SAP, Hitachi) • Application Developers: Industry Specific or General (IBM, SAS, Teradata, Nike, Sportsvision, Acxiom, FICO, Experian, YP.com, Towerdata, Qualia, Simulmedia, Shazam, Soundhound, Musixmatch, Waze, Apple, Google, Amazon, Uber, Lyft, Curb, Ola, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Unmetric, Smartbin) • Analytics Industry Analysts and Influencers (Gartner Group, The Data Warehousing Institute, Forrester, McKinsey, INFORMS, AIS, Teradata, SAS) • Academic Institutions and Certification Agencies (IBM, Microsoft, Microstrategy, Oracle, SAS, Tableau, Teradata, INFORMS • Regulators and Policy Makers (Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, International Telecommunication Union, National Institute of Standards and Technology) • Analytics User Organizations (many topic-specific and local groups) 3. Which companies are dominant in more than one category? It appears that several larger IT companies have products and services in several of these areas. Examples include IBM, Microsoft, SAS, Dell, and SAP. 4. Is it better to be the strongest player in one category or be active in multiple categories? Student opinions will vary. It can be argued that cross-discipline strength provides better integration and insight, or that that domination in multiple areas reduces completion or innovation