Educational Experience with Big Data: here is why Cengage Learning Deployed Talend.
The need for competitiveness, flexibility, cost-effective progressively
leads companies to seek integration solutions that enable them to capitalize on
Big Data; Cengage Learning was among these companies. Henceforth,
integrates Talend solutions with the goal to improve the efficacy of their instructional
products. In fact Cengage Learning aims to understand deeply student product
usage, learning objectives and learning outcomes across multiple products and
platforms.
By integrating the Talend Platform for Big Data into the company’s cloud infrastructure, Cengage Learning could also take advantage of the elasticity of their private cloud. This
also means: ‘’be more responsive in terms of how much data can be consumed,
while allowing them to leverage automatically-generated MapReduce jobs to
analyze Big Data to find correlations, causation and relationships’’.
About
Cengage Learning
Cengage Learning is a leading educational content, software and services
company for the academic, professional and library markets worldwide. The
company’s products and services are designed to foster academic excellence and
professional development, increase student engagement, improve learning
outcomes and deliver authoritative information to people whenever and wherever
they need it. Through the company’s unique position within both the library and
academic markets, Cengage Learning is providing integrated learning solutions
that bridge from the library to the classroom. Cengage Learning’s brands
include Brooks/Cole, Course Technology, Delmar, Gale, Heinle, National
Geographic Learning, South-Western and Wadsworth, among others. www.cengage.com.