Challenges and best practices for enterprise adoption of Big Data technologies

In this paper, we discuss the emerging use of Big Data technologies in Enterprise Data Warehouses and Business Intelligence for the purpose of fostering innovation and producing better business insights and decisions. We present best practices and techniques of Big Data implementation using a 3-legged Big Data environment strategy along with the challenges of enterprise adoption of Big Data technologies. Hence this paper is relevant from an academic as well as a practitioner's perspective.