The book is primarily for developers, analysts, architects, and managers working on data projects within the financial sector who would like to use Hadoop.

It is also helpful for technology professionals from other industry sectors who have recently switched or would like to switch their business domain to the financial sector.

This book is a starter guide that covers the breadth of the subject of using Hadoop for finance use cases and is not really meant for in-depth knowledge of Hadoop or to supply readymade code.