For decades, Business Intelligence (BI) pros have focused on getting “the answer” out of our corporate systems – systems that were arguably designed to provide that answer! However, these systems typically capture only about 20% of a corporation’s data: the remaining 80% is squirreled away in files and scattered across file shares. What options do we have for mining this huge and largely untapped information resource and making sense of it all? Does Hadoop or NoSQL offer any help in reading the stories these files have to tell? Is metadata the key to effectively unlo