Jacqueline Vanacek, SAP

Big data offers a grand challenge to reinvent major sectors of the US economy like healthcare, retail, energy and manufacturing.

In my recent conversation with Deputy Director Thomas A. Kalil of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OFSTP), he defined grand challenges to be “ambitious yet achievable goals that capture the public’s imagination and require innovation and breakthroughs in science and technology.”

See full article at: http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2012/08/02/the-white-house-speaks-out-on-the-economic-power-of-big-data/