Journal of Computer and Communications, 2017, 5, 40-48 http://www.scirp.org/journal/jcc ISSN Online: 2327-5227 ISSN Print: 2327-5219 DOI: 10.4236/jcc.2017.53005 March 13, 2017 Big Data for Organizations: A Review Pwint Phyu Khine 1 , Wang Zhao Shun 1,2 1 School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), Beijing, China 2 Beijing Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering for Material Science, Beijing, China Abstract Big data challenges current information technologies (IT landscape) while promising a more competitive and efficient contributions to business organi- zations. What big data can contribute to is what organizations have been wanted for a long time ago. This paper presents the nature of big data and how organizations can advance their systems with big data technologies. By improving the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations, people can benefit the can take advantages of a more convenient life contributed by Information Technology. Keywords Big Data, Big Data Models, Organization, Information System 1. Introduction Business organizations have been using big data to improve their competitive advantages. According to McKinsey [1], organizations which can fully apply big data get competitive advantages over its competitors. Facebook users uploads hundreds of Terabytes of data each day and these social media data are used for developing more advanced analysis which aim is to take more value from user data. Search Engines like Google and Yahoo are already monetizing by associat- ing appropriate ads based on user queries (i.e. Google use big data to give the right ads to the right user in a split seconds). In applying information systems to improve their organization system, most government organization left behind compared to the business organizations [2]. Meanwhile some government al- ready take initiative to get the advantages of big data. E.g. Obama’s government announced investment of more than $200 million for Big Data R & D in Scien- tific Foundations in 2012 [3]. Today, people are living in the data age where data become oxygen to people as organizations are producing data more than they How to cite this paper: Khine, P.P. and Shun, W.Z. (2017) Big Data for Organi- zations: A Review. Journal of Computer and Communications, 5, 40-48. https://doi.org/10.4236/jcc.2017.53005 Received: January 18, 2017 Accepted: March 10, 2017 Published: March 13, 2017