Analysis of healthcare data, such as who receives a flu shot and where can help prevent the spread of the flu, reports Forbes.

According to Forbes, Cloudera and Hortonworks have merged bringing and end to the to Hadoop era. In a sense, big data is becoming data, as more companies have access to data and the means to analyze it.

A new report by Unravel, an application performance management firm, finds that big businesses expect their big data stack to drive profitable business applications by the end of 2019. However, only 12% are seeing this value at the moment.