Gartner Analyst Frank Buytendijk concluded "Big data has just passed the top of the Hype Cycle, and moving toward the Trough of Disillusionment. This is not a bad thing. It means the market starts to mature, becoming more realistic about how big data can be useful for organizations — large and small. Big data will become business as usual."

"While interest in big data remains undiminished, it has moved beyond the peak because the market has settled into a reasonable set of approaches, and the new technologies and practices are additive to existing solutions ("Hype Cycle for Big Data, 2014")," reads this new report. The report can be purchased online at https://www.gartner.com/doc/2816917?ref=unauthreader for $1,995.00 USD. Also check http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/hype-cycles/ .

The Gartner webpage on the hypecycle notes "The 2014 Gartner Hype Cycle Special Report evaluates the market promotion and perception of value for over 2,000 technologies, services and trends in over 119 areas. This year, we're also exploring the impact of the megatrends affecting the Hype Cycles and profiles across all research areas. This report tells a story of how technologies, services and strategies evolve from market hype and excitement of value to becoming a mainstream part of business and IT."

According to Gartner, "Hype Cycles and Priority Matrices offer a snapshot of the relative maturity of technologies, IT methodologies and management disciplines. They highlight overhyped areas, estimate how long technologies and trends will take to reach maturity, and help organizations decide when to adopt."

Gil Press in Forbes (8/18/2014) noted "A new entry to the Hype Cycle this year is “data science,” projected to reach the plateau in 2 to 5 years. It’s more a discipline for dealing with big data then a specific technology or set of technologies, so it’s interesting to note that big data is still considered by Gartner to be 5 to 10 years away from reaching that stage."

Reference

Press, G. "It's Official: The Internet Of Things Takes Over Big Data As The Most Hyped Technology," Forbes, 8/18/2014 at URL http://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2014/08/18/its-official-the-internet-of-things-takes-over-big-data-as-the-most-hyped-technology/