In recent months, I met with the Business Intelligence (BI) teams in different countries to discuss Big Data Analytics. What transpired from the meetings is clear lack of awareness of what Big Data Analytics can do for the BI team and how Big Data Analytics fit within the enterprise data warehousing (EDW). As ambassadors to Read More…
At Teradata’s Big Data Analytics Summit, held recently in Sydney, Alex Liang of eBay (Director of the offshore Analytics Platform and Delivery) presented on their big data ecosystem. It should be noted that his description has to be taken in the context of eBay – a company in which their business is their website and is a Read More…
Alex Liang from eBay (Session 2 – Know what your customers want) Alex took us through eBay’s core business model being the creating of markets and bringing buyers and sellers together. He talked us through the legacy approach of matching buyer searches with merchant listings. Then he showed us how they applied new behavioural analytics Read More…
Mark Fazackerley, the MicroStrategy VP of Australia and New Zealand is presenting at the Teradata Big Data Summit 2013 at Crown in Melbourne. Mark is presenting on the MicroStrategy Platform to Support Big Data. Mark is covering Big Data and the use of MicroStrategy to meet these demands with a specific example of the use Read More…
eBay’s Alex Liang (Director of the offshore Analytics Platform and Delivery team based in Shanghai) was keynote speaker at today’s Teradata Big Data Analytics 2013 conference. Alex has a unique view of one of the world’s largest analytics and data platforms, and his views and experiences are likely to be leading indicators for the rest Read More…
In the medical field, an ophthalmologist and optometrist perform visual acuity tests to check vision as well as structures and functions of the human eye. The metric 20/20 represents normal vision and indicates the sharpness or clarity of vision at a distance. 20/40, on the other hand, indicates short-sightedness (Myopia). It is now time for Read More…
During the recent Teradata EMEA Universe data warehousing conference, it was announced that after an extensive search, SIEMENS has selected Teradata as their strategic partner to deliver big data reporting platforms for SIEMENS products in the Smart Grid arena. This was widely announced at the time (view the Siemens news release , video interview and the Read More…
A recent research by Analysys Mason has identified that a good proportion of telecommunication companies (Telco) do not have a strategy for Big Data. This is probably because as with any new technologies, Big Data initiatives (or lack of it!) seem to suffer its own share of fear uncertainty and doubts (FUD). Here are some Read More…
Recently I enjoyed listening to a spirited discussion around the fact that the computing age is entering the “2nd half of the Chessboard”. I found the discussion quite good, and I believe there are lessons to be learned as it applies to data and the ability for organisations to adapt and react to the volumes Read More…
While the telecom industry has been obsessed with generations of mobile technologies commonly known as 2G, 2.5G, 3G, 3.5G and 4G, the problems that customers (a.k.a. subscribers) were facing with communication service providers (CSP) a generation ago (i.e. the familial generation in the 70’s and 80’s) is resurfacing in different forms that demand adoption of Read More…
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