IDC's BuyerPulse® Deals Database: Worldwide Big Data Software product provides critical deal and customer purchasing data that helps technology vendors, professional services firms, end users, and the financial services community monitor the demand for Big Data software as well as track leading-edge use cases in this emerging market. With several hundred worldwide Big Data software customer win announcements and new additions every quarter, this database represents the largest and richest information repository of Big Data software deals. This offering provides tangible metrics for competitive intelligence teams to evaluate technology buying patterns as well as for sales and marketing teams to use in a sales enablement capacity.

This product covers the following segments of the Big Data software market:

• Data Integration and Access Software
• Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS)
• Non-Relational Database Management Systems
• End-User Query, Reporting, and Analysis
• Advanced Analytics Software
• Content Management
• Search and Discovery Technologies
• Storage Software
• Other Integration and Process Automation Middleware
• Other Development and Deployment Software

• Track which customers are purchasing Big Data software products
• Analyze new customer wins by software vendor
• Analyze what industries, company sizes, and countries are purchasing Big Data software solutions
• Understand what business processes are using Big Data software
• Understand what business needs are being solved by Big Data software
• Analyze what positioning statements are being used to explain the benefits of Big Data solutions

1. Which customers are my Big Data competitors winning?
2. What are the opportunities for investment to grow my business in specific industries, such as media, financial services, and government?
3. What decisions are customers making between on-premise, cloud, and appliances within Big Data?
4. What Big Data software products are selling in emerging markets?
5. What differences exist between large customers and small to midsize businesses when purchasing Big Data software?

IDC's BuyerPulse Deals Database: Worldwide Big Data Software product provides critical deal and customer purchasing data that helps the vendor, end-user, and financial services communities monitor the demand for Big Data–related software. Over 50 vendors are currently tracked including:

10gen, Accellion, Amazon Web Services, Appistry, arcplan Information Services GmbH, Aspera Inc., Aster Data Systems Inc. (acquired by Teradata), Attensity, Axway Inc., Basho Technologies Inc., Cascading, Cloudera Inc., CloudStore, Concurrent, Couchbase, Data Expedition Inc., Datameer Inc., DataStax, EMC Corp., FICO, Franz Inc., Fujitsu, Fuzzy Logix Inc., GlobalSCAPE Inc., Google, Hadapt, Hitachi America, HStreaming, IBM, Informatica, Information Builders Inc., Ipswitch Inc., Jade Software, Karmasphere, Kofax Inc., KXEN, MapR, MarkLogic Corp., Microsoft Corp., MicroStrategy Inc., Neo Technology, NetApp, Oozie, Oracle Corp., Panopticon Inc., ParAccel Inc., Pentaho, Pervasive Software, Platfora, Primeur Group SRL, Progress Software Corp., QlikTech Inc., Quest Software, Red Hat Inc., Revolution Analytics, SAP, SAS Institute Inc., Signiant Inc., Skytree, SnapLogic, Sones, Splunk Inc., Symtrax Corp., Syncsort, Tableau, Talend, Teradata, Corp., The Apache Software Foundation, TIBCO Software Inc., Versant, Vertica Systems Inc., Westbrook Technologies Inc., Yahoo! (Hortonworks), and Zettaset.

Throughout the year, this product will offer insight into the latest trends impacting the market. BuyerPulse Deals Database: Worldwide Big Data Software clients receive weekly updates to IDC's software deals data.