Abstract:
Big Data is one of the most commonly encountered
buzzwords among IT professionals nowadays. Technological
advancements in data acquisition, storage, telecommunications,
embedded systems and sensor technologies resulted in huge
inflows of streaming data coming from variety of sources,
ranging from financial streaming data to social media tweets, or
wearable health gadgets to drone flight logs. The processing and
analysis of such data is a difficult task, but as appointed by many
IT experts, it is crucial to have a Big Data Implementation plan
in today’s challenging industry standards. In this study, we
performed a survey among IT professionals working in the
public sector and tried to address some of their implementation
issues and their perception of Big Data today and their
expectations about how the industry will evolve. The results
indicate that most of the public sector professionals are aware of
the current Big Data requirements, embrace the Big Data
challenge and are optimistic about the future.