Can Big Data Bring Business and IT together?
The Need, The Enablers & The Trends
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Nasscom Tech Series on Big Data
February 06, 2013
Somjit AmritChief Business Officer,
Technosoft Corporation
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Discussion Points
Why Business and IT haven’t been together thus far What has changed now What is important – ‘Big’ , ‘Data’ , both or neither The glue that will hold them together –Veracity of Data The Industry response to this disruption –Telecom & Logistics
Business & IT – Not Together Thus Far
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Defined IT Projects based on
Business Requirements
Slower Pace of
Business
Unidirectional information flow from business ( consumer )
to IT (producer). IT as an acceleration agent
Business did not depend on IT to take decisions from BI reports.Fairly known data sources
No real-time decisions
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Big
Data Science = Business Analysis with Statistical Inputs
Data
Both
Neither
What is Important ?
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Compulsion or Conviction ?
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Veracity makes “sense from sensors”
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1 Generation of roaring streams
of “noisy” data
(sense from sensors, real v/s routine)
2 Identify typical and rare events
buried in noise
(noise filtering and outlier patterns)
3 Correlation or Causation / Deduction
or Induction?
(unidirectional or intertwined)
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Logistics Management – Case study of FedEx
9 million
90,000
690
220
12 million2.2 billion
platform of sensors streams exabytes of temperature, pressure, light, route data in real time to servers for predictive analytics
Source: http://www.academia.edu/157157/Modeling_the_Logistics_of_FedEx_International_Express
Despatch-Delivery Management: Technosoft’s PoV
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Fleet Telemetry
Logistics Components SenseAware Data Predictive Analytics Actionable Dashboard
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Telecom Network Failure Management Case Study
24 downtime
hoursUnknown cause
20 millionLong-term govtintervention
Software glitchled to traffic surge
Predictive analytics
20 millionEuros
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Telecom Network Health Management Framework
Source: http://www.fiercewireless.com/europe/story/ft-orange-network-outage-could-cost-20m-repairs-and-customer-compensation/2012-07-11
About Technosoft
• Founded in 1996
• 1850 employees and privately held
• Worldwide headquarters in Southfield, Michigan
• Data Sciences practice (TIES or Technosoft Info Edge Services) offers core BI/DW services as well as Value services such as Big Data integration and advanced predictive analytics
• Team of Data Scientists, Visualization Artists and domain experts
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13Cartoon attributed to Rube Goldberg
