Systematic & Synthesized Critical Literature of Big Data, Business Intelligence-Analytics & Smart Cities to the Current Era

Present digital world with the concept of Smart cities are producing enormous amount of data over the period of time at different sectors of life. It is becoming difficult to track information and produce knowledge out of it without using emerging information management technologies. Big Data Analytics is a must to make use of data generated by IoT. In the present paper, A systematic and synthesizing critical literature have been discussed on the concept and relationship of Big Data, Data Analytics and smart cities and imperatives of the same. This study primarily contributes in providing the rationale of Big Data, Business Intelligence & Data Analytics in smart cities. The study discusses the valuable information to the Big Data practitioners by clarifying the process of effective management of Big Data through Business Intelligence and Analytics processes in smart cities. Study further provides the directions to the future research.