What’s next for big data after a turbulent 2019?

When thousands of data scientists and business analysts converge on New York next week for the years main data industry event, Strata, they will be looking for answers to the current chaos in our business and technological ecosystem.We have seen tectonic shifts in the data and analytics space in 2019, fueled by a seemingly endless wave of acquisitions, some of which were truly epic in proportion: Salesforce acquired Tableau for $15.7 billion, and Google acquired Looker for $2.6 billion. Further downstream in valuation but no less significant, CommVault purchased Hedvig for $225 million, Cloudera bought Arcadia Data, Logi Analytics bought Zoomdata, Sisense bought Periscope Data, and Alteryx bought ClearStory for $20 million. That’s more than $18 billion worth of acquisitions and we’re only in three-quarters of the way through the year.