As companies collect more and more data every day, the need to efficiently manage and analyze this data has spurred new styles of databases to take on this new challenge. Today's marketplace needs the ability to seamlessly provision databases across multiple vendors and platforms. NoSQL databases like IBM Cloudant or MongoDB provide many benefits like easy scaling, handling of non-tabular data, and fast development. But they also require developers to re-think database design.

Join IBM's Christopher Bienko– Worldwide Technical Sales for Cloud Data Services –in exploring how Cloudant and the IBM platform delivers a fully-managed database experience in service to the Analytics, App, and API economy, including:

• Schema design
• Materialized view construction
• When to use RDBMS vs. NoSQL for your data