Business Leadership Exchange is proud to announce the launch of its third community, the Big Data Insight Group. Following on from its business intelligence and cloud computing communities, Obis Omni and The Cloud Circle, the new community will focus on big data. Each of the three represent the UK's first independent communities for their particular field.

Big data – referring to the act of gaining intelligent insight from very large or complex data sets – looks set to explode in 2012, with multiple applications across business and IT functions within an organisation.

In the quest for competitive advantage, organisations are turning to large repositories of corporate and external data to uncover trends, statistics, and other actionable information to help make better decisions. This is something Business Leadership Exchange wrote about recently in an article for the Sunday Telegraph. Those data sets, along with their associated tools, platforms, and analytics, are often referred to as 'big data'.

As ever, Business Leadership Exchange has placed itself at the cutting edge of business focussed innovation by creating a new community to enhance and accelerate its members’ knowledge and use of big data.

Having launched at the start of this week, the membership count is already fast approaching 400 strong, with organisations from blue chip to SME, across a wide range of sectors represented by senior executives in a multitude of job functions.

Some of the companies on board include British Airways, Tesco, o2, the BBC, the NHS, Transport for London, AXA, HSBC, Rolls Royce, Ticketmaster and many more.

The Big Data Insight Group will cut through the hype surrounding big data and deliver expert insight, advice and guidance for your organisation to harness these valuable technologies.

Our aim is to allow members to build long-term relationships with key practitioners and suppliers in the marketplace enabling them to accelerate their learning, to network with peers and source the best solutions available for their organisation.

Whether you are only just hearing about 'big data' or have been realising the benefits for some time, we’d love to welcome you to the community. Membership is free for practitioners following qualification. Click here to sign up now.