????“圖形大有可為”

????有些不太出名的公司也獲得了極高的評(píng)價(jià)。

????比如KDnuggets.com董事長(zhǎng)兼編輯格里高里?皮亞塔特斯基?夏皮羅認(rèn)為，Tamr公司是“數(shù)據(jù)管理領(lǐng)域一家令人興奮的創(chuàng)業(yè)公司，因此它獲得了我的一票?！?/p>

????高德納公司分析師斯庫(kù)拉還推薦了一家叫Neo Technology的公司，這家公司推出了一個(gè)名叫Neo4j的開(kāi)源圖形數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)。斯庫(kù)拉說(shuō)：“我認(rèn)為圖形有很好的前途，因?yàn)閳D形表現(xiàn)出了數(shù)據(jù)之間的關(guān)系，而不是傳統(tǒng)的微觀視角。圖形技術(shù)是很多企業(yè)發(fā)展最滯后的領(lǐng)域，但他們的解決方案可以讓數(shù)據(jù)真正提供一些全新的見(jiàn)解?！保ㄋ箮?kù)拉還推薦了Pivotal、The Hive和Concurrent三家公司。）

????分析師科特?莫納什推薦了Data Stax、WibiData、Aerospike和ClearStory等公司，而數(shù)據(jù)科學(xué)家皮特?斯科莫洛奇則推薦了Automatic、Planet Labs、Sight Machine、DataPad、Interana、Wise.io、LendUp、Declara、Sentinel Labs、FlipTop、Sift Science、 Import.io和Segment.io等公司。

????Paxata和Informatica兩家公司出現(xiàn)在Ovum公司分析師托爾?拜爾的推薦榜單里，喬治梅森大學(xué)教授、數(shù)據(jù)科學(xué)家科克?博爾內(nèi)則推薦了IBM、Syntasa、Actian和Tableau四家公司。

????拜爾說(shuō)：“有不少?gòu)氖掳踩院蜋C(jī)器學(xué)習(xí)的大數(shù)據(jù)公司正在崛起。現(xiàn)在缺失的是從事大數(shù)據(jù)的管理、管控和生命周期管理的創(chuàng)業(yè)公司。現(xiàn)在IBM差不多是唯一在做這方面工作的企業(yè)，不過(guò)我期待在這方面會(huì)有更多的創(chuàng)業(yè)公司展開(kāi)行動(dòng)。”

????“這些公司中的大多數(shù)最終都會(huì)消失”

????如果你已經(jīng)讀到了本文的此處，那么你已經(jīng)看到我們的專家團(tuán)隊(duì)推薦的42個(gè)公司的名字了。它們首先都是科技公司，而且其中大多數(shù)是專門從事大數(shù)據(jù)技術(shù)的公司。

????但是也有些專家表示，最有意思的大數(shù)據(jù)公司根本就不是大數(shù)據(jù)公司。比如達(dá)文波特就指出，有些搞傳統(tǒng)產(chǎn)品和服務(wù)的知名企業(yè)也在依靠自家積累的大數(shù)據(jù)開(kāi)發(fā)自己的大數(shù)據(jù)產(chǎn)品。比如農(nóng)業(yè)巨頭孟山都公司（Monsanto），專門為中小企業(yè)提供辦公室和財(cái)務(wù)管理的財(cái)捷集團(tuán)（Intuit）和載重汽車公司施耐德（Schneider）等。

????達(dá)文波特說(shuō)：“我認(rèn)為，與其要改變你對(duì)信息的整個(gè)思考方式，改變信息與企業(yè)業(yè)務(wù)的關(guān)聯(lián)方式，倒不如建立一家創(chuàng)業(yè)公司方便得多。大數(shù)據(jù)的一個(gè)令人興奮的特點(diǎn)，就是你可以用它建立新的產(chǎn)品和服務(wù)?！?/p>

????他思考了一下然后補(bǔ)充說(shuō)：“大數(shù)據(jù)仍然處于發(fā)展的初期階段，我們還不知道企業(yè)通過(guò)這些技術(shù)賺錢有多容易?！?/p>

????不過(guò)專家們普遍認(rèn)為，大數(shù)據(jù)公司的數(shù)量最終將有所稀釋。

????Smarter Remarketer公司的阿波特認(rèn)為：“這些公司中的大多數(shù)最終都會(huì)消失，因?yàn)榇髷?shù)據(jù)運(yùn)動(dòng)最重要的部分，是如何運(yùn)用數(shù)據(jù)進(jìn)行操作——也就是為企業(yè)的業(yè)務(wù)做決策，而不是光看誰(shuí)能更快地處理數(shù)據(jù)。”（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

????譯者：樸成奎

????‘Graphs have a great future’

????Some of the less well-known companies received the highest praise.

????Tamr, for instance, is “an exciting startup in data curation, so that would be my nomination,” said Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, president and editor ofKDnuggets.com.

????Neo Technology, the company behind open source graph database Neo4j, is another that Gartner’s Sicular pointed out. “I think graphs have a great future since they show data in its connections rather than a traditional atomic view,” she said. “Graph technologies are mostly unexplored by the enterprises but they are the solution that can deliver truly new insights from data.” (She also named Pivotal, The Hive andConcurrent.)

????DataStax, WibiData, Aerospike, Ayasdi and ClearStorywere all part of analyst Curt Monash‘s “obvious inclusion” list, he said, while Automatic, Planet Labs,Sight Machine, DataPad, Interana, Wise.io, LendUp,Declara, Sentinel Labs, FlipTop, Sift Science, Import.ioand Segment.io were among those named by data scientist Pete Skomoroch.

????Paxata and Informatica were both cited by Ovumanalyst Tony Baer; IBM IBM 0.74% , Syntasa,Actian and Tableau were four named by George Mason University professor and data scientist Kirk Borne.

????“There are a number of startups in security and machine learning that are emerging,” Baer said. “What’s missing right now are startups that look at data governance, stewardship, lifecycle management for big data. Right now IBM is largely alone, but I’m expecting there will be more startup action to come.”

????‘Most of these companies will go away’

????If you’ve reached this point in the article, you will have read 42 recommendations by our panel of experts. All of them are foremost technology companies; most exist specifically to perpetuate big data technology.

????But some experts said that the most interesting big data companies aren’t big data companies at all. Established companies with traditional products and services are starting to develop offerings based on big data, Davenport said. Those include agriculture giant Monsanto MOO , back-office operations stalwart Intuit INTU 0.10% , and the trucking company Schneider.

????“To me, it’s much easier to create a startup than it is to change your entire way of thinking about information and how it relates to your business operation,” Davenport said. “One of the really exciting things about big data is when you use it to create new products and services.”

????He added with hesitation: “It’s early days still, and we don’t know how easy it will be for companies to make money off these things.”

????It is inevitable that there will eventually be a thinning of the big data herd, experts said.

????“Most of these companies will go away because the most important part of the big data movement will be how to use data operationally—to make decisions for the business,” Smarter Remarketer’s Abbott said, “rather than who can merely crunch more data faster.”