Abstract:As a disruptive technology, big data has been widely concerned from academia word to industry world, however, most of the existing researches discuss technologies such as data acquisition, data storage, data mining and so on from the aspect of information science and computer science. This paper puts forward that multi dimension is the essence of big data while the data scale is only the appearance of big data. Based on the nature of multi dimension, the basic characteristics of big data are analyzed, including data redundancy and the transit of focus from data itself to the relation between divisions. The influence of big data on management decisions are pointed out from the aspects of data processing, data use and decision-making method. Finally, combining with the application, potential management problems caused by big data are pointed out in favor of guiding the application of big data .