In this issue of CBR, we set our sights on Big Data and how best to derive value from it. This is an increasingly critical topic (or should be!) for most organizations today, from the largest ones on down, as it becomes evermore evident that making full use of the institutional assets we have at our disposal will make sense on many levels. As Bill Gates said when he came to speak at Cornell University just a few years back, "Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven.