In 2013, Judith Hurwitz and other market experts proclaimed the beginning of the Big Data Era. They perceived that “big data enables organizations to store, manage, and manipulate vast amounts of data at the right speed and at the right time to gain the right insights.” They were candid that Big Data doesn’t represent a single technology and instead, was a heterogeneous set of data management technologies with their roots in several previous technology transformations. The question now is: Where is Big Data today? And what is needed to mature its application? To be fair, recent analyst ...