December 8, 2019

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Turning petabytes of data into millions in cost savings for the worlds biggest retailers

Turning petabytes of data into millions in cost savings for the worlds biggest retailers

Jonathon Whitton details how PRGX is using Talend and Cloudera to load two million annual client flat files into a Hadoop cluster and perform recovery audit services in order to help clients detect, find, and fix leakage in their procurement and payment processes.
Talk Title Turning petabytes of data into millions in cost savings for the worlds biggest retailers
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Conference Strata + Hadoop World
Conf Tag Make Data Work
Location New York, New York
Date September 27-29, 2016
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Jonathon Whitton details how PRGX is using Talend and Cloudera to load two million annual client flat files into a Hadoop cluster and perform recovery audit services in order to help clients detect, find, and fix leakage in their procurement and payment processes. Jonathon also explores how PRGX unzips and decrypts transactional data received from customers so it can analyze the data using a joblet in Talend, shaving hours of time off each job. This session is sponsored by Talend.

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