The company manufactures and distributes supplies for hospitals in the greater Miami-Dade area in Florida. Your CEO was really excited after reading your report about what analytics can do for XYZ Healthcare. He now wants to see what types of software could be used to begin using analytics and for you to suggest the best candidate for an analytics platform.

Be sure to describe 4 platforms in high-level detail, noting the differences between the platforms and discussing challenges with implementing them. You should select one of the platforms to recommend to the CEO.

Please choose 3 articles from the Rasmussen library and use these articles to support your suggestion to the CEO. You may also use the articles used in the other assignment this week.

Klie, L. (2015). Analytics Advance Through the Cloud. CRM Magazine, 19(10), 13. Link to article.

State of the Art of Big Data Analytics: Survey. Link to article.

Balladini, J., Rozas, C., Frati, E., Vicente, N., & Orlandi, C. (2015). Big Data Analytics in Intensive Care Units: challenges and applicability in an Argentinian Hospital. Journal Of Computer Science & Technology (JCS&T), 15(2), 61-67. Link to article.

Garey, D., & Lang, S. (2008). High Performance Development with Python. Scientific Computing, 10-14. Link to article.

Prajapati, V. (2013). Big Data Analytics with R and Hadoop : Set up an Integrated Infrastructure of R and Hadoop to Turn Your Data Analytics Into Big Data Analytics. Birmingham: Packt Publishing. Link to article.