Identifying and exploiting the keys to digital transformation
Leading companies are integrating operations and analytics to make real-time adjustments to improve revenues, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. There are many aspects to digital transformation, but the timely delivery of actionable data is both a key enabler and an obstacle. Jack Norris explores how companies from Altitude Digital to Uber are transforming their businesses.
| Talk Title | Identifying and exploiting the keys to digital transformation |
| Speakers | Jack Norris (MapR Technologies) |
| Conference | Strata Data Conference |
| Conf Tag | Making Data Work |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Date | May 23-25, 2017 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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When discussing big data we tend to focus on the end state—the massive scale and variety of data. But big data is created one event at a time, whether from sensors, log files, or customer interactions. Historically, one of the obstacles to leveraging this data has been the processing time and effort to extract, transform, and load (ETL) the data into an analytical database, a warehouse, or, more recently, a big data platform for analysis. Streaming makes it possible to better manage, analyze, and distribute events across locations and subscribers. Examples of data flow include web events, machine sensors, and biometric data. Operational agility requires flowing data to be quickly analyzed and understood in context, but this context could benefit from understanding long-term trends and patterns while also leveraging newly arriving data. Jack Norris explores how companies from Altitude Digital to Uber are transforming their businesses, covering the types of applications leading companies are pursuing now, the importance of the data layer to business transformation, the role of streaming and importance of real-time processing, and how that relates to developers and their adoption of Agile approaches, such as microservices. Topics include:
