David Stone, Director of Information Analytics & Innovation, Sears Holding Corporation, presents at the 2012 Big Analytics Roadshow in Chicago. Big data is bigger than ever at big companies, growing from Terabytes to Petabytes in the last couple of years. What are the trends that are working? What is not working? Where is this new big analytics industry taking us? Sears is in the process of making a game changing investment in analytics. Leveraging the power of analytics as a service on top of a powerful Enterprise Data Warehouse, empowering a wider variety of analysts to get the data they need to drive the business based on facts.