Enterprise data warehouse (EDW) technology has been a reliable resource for organizations for more than a decade.

However, Enterprise Data Warehouse and the teams that manage them are strained by the rapid increases in data volume and the demand for more analytics. To meet the demand, organizations are implementing Hadoop as an effective way to augment and optimize the use of EDW resources. In June 2016, Dell EMC and Hortonworks commissioned Forrester Consulting study to evaluate the adoption of Hadoop to offload enterprise data management and analytics.