This document discusses big data tools and trends that enable real-time business intelligence from machine logs. It provides an overview of Perficient, a leading IT consulting firm, and introduces the speakers Eric Roch and Ben Hahn. It then covers topics like what constitutes big data, how machine data is a source of big data, and how tools like Hadoop, Storm, Elasticsearch can be used to extract insights from machine data in real-time through open source solutions and functional programming approaches like MapReduce. It also demonstrates a sample data analytics workflow using these tools.