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BIG DATA EDITION

BIG DATA: NEW OIL OR HOW TO DEFINE YOUR
SNAKE OIL? CUSTOMER DATA STRATEGY
& WHY IT’S AN ESSENTIAL
Shabbir Abid, CEO at
Omnisys Solutions
FIRST STEP
Oren Gruber,

Director of Strategy at Amtrak

AI-DRIVEN VIDEO HOW DATA ANALYTICS IS

ANALYTICS, CHANGING SMALL
HOW IT’S TRANSFORMING PRACTICE HEALTHCARE
VIDEO SURVEILLANCE Elver Naranjo, Director,
Eleanor Wright, COO, Customer Analytics · Tebra
TelWAI

FROM DATA TO INSIGHT:

TIPS FOR A GREAT DATA
STRATEGY
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CONTENTS
CXO OPINIONS EDITORIAL

05 EDITOR'S NOTE
With our debut edition and expansion of new
vertical , Alltech Magazine editor in chief Arun
Shah has something to share how this issue
came to life.

13 FEATURED NEWS
Data Integration Platform Dataddo Launched
First-Ever Free Plan with No Extraction Limits

14 INDUSTRY NEWS SECTION

From product launches and updates to recent
partnerships, we share some news that's worth
noticing in big data space.

07 BIG DATA: NEW OIL OR

SNAKE OIL?
10 IN THE SPOTLIGHT: TELWAI
AI-DRIVEN VIDEO ANALYTICS,
HOW IT’S TRANSFORMING VIDEO
SURVEILLANCE

22 FROM DATA TO INSIGHT:

18 TIPS FOR A GREAT DATA
STRATEGY
HOW DATA ANALYTICS IS
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After five years of being in the tech industry, Alltech team decided to do Editorial
something different this year— we made a decision to pivot our company
focus from B2B events and marketing services to launch a publication that Arun Shah
would reflect our deep interest in tech— AllTech Magazine. Our goal is to help Editor-in-chief
tech executives make informed decisions and to provide a forum for Shah@alltechevent.com
discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing the enterprise tech
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Dear Readers, we're excited to be able to bring Alltech Magazine to life and to Sanjana@alltechevent.com
share it with the tech community. It is my great pleasure to announce the
publication of our inaugural Issue on big data. Sales and Marketing
Data has become the lifeblood of the modern enterprise, powering everything Aurum Jha
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threatening to outpace the ability of companies to manage it effectively. Yet
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seek to harness the transformative power of big data for competitive advantage, Ass. Manager Marketing
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they grapple with the issue of how to do big data right.

In this edition of AllTech magazine, we explore this skepticism head-on and Production
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and drive innovation. Prakash@alltechmagazine.com

Our editorial and managing team have worked diligently over the past weeks Partnerships
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 CXO Opinion

Big Data:
New Oil
or
Snake
Oil?
D ata is popularly referred to as the new oil. Whether it is

the fuel that grows your business, or snake oil that

SHABBIR ABID
does nothing but burn a hole in your pocket is the CEO, OMNISYS SOLUTIONS
million(multi?) dollar question.

Big Data and its value have got two perspectives: as a valuable commodity that flows

through an organisation powering the engines of new insight and action, and Big Data can be

a collection of, sometimes, disgraceful claims. Both have merit and are right, but the

distinction between value and snake oil is helpful in understanding the value of Big Data.

It is assumed that the associated technology maturity and transformation will create value

with time. But the assumption implies that enterprise data needs to be similar or

normalized in some sort of way. This has forced inefficiencies and redundancies on

enterprises, who then invest massively in identifying, aggregating, moving, storing and

optimizing data before the value is created.

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How does the snake oil get sold?
A report has stated that about 465 exabytes will be
created each day by 2025. To put that in perspective,
take a quite roomy 1 terabyte hard drive, and put 465
MILLION of them together. And that’s EVERY SINGLE
DAY! This gargantuan number, however, conveniently
ignores the reality that 95% of data is completely
irrelevant.
The fact remains that data is not about quantity, rather
quality. Greater quantity buries the quality. More does
not equate to better. Sellers of technology and tools
further a dangerous notion that more data is always
useful. Companies selling the tools to collect, analyse
and respond to data-driven triggers are growing fat on
the profits of burying us in numbers and taking our
focus from the customer to the spreadsheet while
blinding us with too much data accompanied with buzz
words.
We are descending into a data-driven world of clichés
and catch phrases. Generally speaking, the more
information you have, the better the decisions you
make. However, information overload kicks in at a
point. The data explosion has also played a significant
role in the switch.
Although data is vital to the development and
implementation of successful operational optimisations
and efficiency campaigns, “information” should be the
driver.
The purpose is not to be alarmist and not bias you
against bringing technology to support data-driven
decisions. Nor is to say that Big Data is by default
inferior to good old human knowledge. Quite the
opposite actually. Any tool that accelerates the inherent
knowledge of the organisation, and supports decision-
making with the right interventions, communicated the
right way, can supercharge the way the business
operates.
Caution however needs to come in, when a tool is sold
as a panacea for a business problem, without the
champion being able to give a real strategy on how the
tool would operationally be deployed in the company.
Machine Learning – the Snake
Oil favourite
Machine Learning is both real and useful, but rare is the
knowledge to figure out how these tools apply to
business beyond finance. Prepackaged algorithmic
solutions are the future of “big data”. But today, we lack
imagination, which goes beyond better tools. The
industry grew out of the electronification of paper and
has barely moved beyond elementary data processing.
The favourite bogeyman is often Microsoft Excel. Even if
we ignore the sheer power in Excel, it’s a flawed analogy
that perpetrates the ‘this tool will solve all your ills’
fallacy.
Machine Learning is a key lynchpin of this argument.
While it is true that Excel is not the right tool for Machine
Learning, the bigger question is that does ML add value
to your current situation. Does it allow for a fresh
perspective to come in, where traditional statistical
methods have already been deployed and used
effectively?
There are key questions to determine the validity of
Machine Learning:
1. How about machine learning that actually helps us
make strategic business decisions?
2. Will the end result be a technology solution or
management consulting, and do we bring in tech
geeks, math geeks or a bunch of MBAs?
3. Who manages a project like that in a large company?
And,
4. What kind of hairy simulations would you need to test
the outcome of business decisions made by
machines?
This is hard. Not everyone can do it. And it establishes
the argument that Machine Learning is a direction to be
explored only after standard statistical methods of
extracting information have been exhausted.
So what do I do?
Unfortunately, the answer isn’t simple. As a business, it
is imperative that operations get engaged actively in
determining the gaps where data can come in, and
collaborate with the right experts and implement the tools
which help fill those gaps.
In essence, it means asking the right questions. And this
can be done only by someone intimately familiar with
your business. The right questions are those whose
answer is simple, and precise and communicates a
wealth of information about the area the question targets.
These questions lead to identifying the right use cases,
which can then help identify the right data to pick up,
process, and analyze.
The good news is that making better sense of data is an
evolutionary process, and the benefit is that you can let
go of unrealistic expectations where a large tool
implementation will automatically transform the
company’s relationship with data.
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In the Spotlight ALLTECHMAGAZINE.COM

AI-Driven Video
Analytics,
How It’s Eleanor Wright,
COO, TelWAI
Transforming
Video
Surveillance
A dvancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have come a
long way since the classic object detection algorithms of Video analytics is
the early 2000s. No longer do users have to be evolving at a rapid
bombarded with false positives and a cluttered pace, transforming
arrangement of detection algorithms. The new era of
the way we think
video analytics has AI at its core.
about surveillance
and its role in
Built on reliable datasets, the AI of today allows for security
targeted detection that supports its users in detecting
safety and security threats without overwhelming them.
Delivering structure in detection, AI goes beyond object
detection and opens the door to event detection. For
example, whilst historical video analytics may have
detected the presence of new objects in a scene, AI-
driven analytics can link the object to a pattern of
activity.

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Traditionally viewed as an amenity, the employment of
video analytics is becoming ever more ubiquitous in
video surveillance. Advancements in algorithms have
opened detection capabilities into new markets and
verticals. To make the most of these advancements,
security integrators and professionals need to
differentiate between the AI-driven video analytics of
today and the classical video analytics of yesterday.
They must also recognize the complexities in detection,
its limitations and how best to apply it to the
environment.
Understanding the limitations
Whilst it can seem compelling to detect a wide range of
objects and activities, in the active environment this will
do nothing but accelerate alarm rates and overwhelm
users. Achieving the sweet spot between detection
rates, and the user’s capacity to review and respond is
key to the successful integration of video analytics into
the wider system.
Whilst facial recognition has been the sweetheart of
video analytics over the last few years, not all facial
recognition is the same. Detecting a face in a crowd is
very different from verifying a face against an existing
catalogue of faces in a structured environment. Whilst
we would expect to see low false positive rates with
one-to-one matching in a structured environment;
detecting a face in a crowd using standard surveillance
cameras is a very different beast. Although some may
promise high rates of accuracy, with big claims must
come conclusive evidence.
Although detecting a single face in a crowd of thousands
might be desirable, is it achievable? When it comes to
video analytics, variables matter, beards occlude a third
of the face, ageing effects contracts and symmetry, and
finally data out is only as good as data in.
The future of video surveillance
As video analytics proceeds to become more and more
mainstream, innovation in applications in the
surveillance sector will continue to evolve. Whilst the
detection of high-level threats such as gun crime will
continue to have its place in the market, the detection of
lower-level criminal activity will open.
Beyond that of market growth, innovation will continue
to accelerate, and the autonomy of the machines will
grow. Capabilities such as semi-automated response
procedures and data fusion will become more and more
reliable and interoperability between sensors will
develop. Users will continue to hand over cognition-
heavy tasks to computers and a greater level of
situational awareness will be achieved.
Underpinning all of this is innovation and market
adoption, allowing new technologies to claim their stake
in the market. It is key for governments and industries to
continue to invest in and embrace new technologies.
Identifying new ways to collect, verify and utilise data
whilst maintaining high levels of standards and
reliability.

About TelWAI
Founded in 2022, TelWAI brings together
expertise in machine vision and video
surveillance. Established with a goal to make
surveillance agile and targeted, TelWAI is
built on the back of innovation. Thier cameras
are not limited by location or image
processing, they can be deployed and
redeployed as safety and security risks
develop.

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 CXO Opinion

How To Define Your

Customer Data Strategy &
Why It’s An Essential First
Step

Oren Gruber, In working on my latest client’s portfolio review

Director of Strategy at Amtrak
and strategizing the pain points moving to
growth areas; I repeatedly ran into the question
of “…what’s our customer data strategy”? Ran it
up the chain, asked around, and attended
sessions internally and I ended up with the
verbal shrug challenge of nobody really owning
it. More importantly, the leaders whom I asked
would not own it and on top of that had other
priorities. Crucially, I could see the need for an
enterprise-wide strategy (if possible). If not, then
at least a better direction on how to scale and
integrate so many parts feeding a shapeless
hole of what or who our customer is. So, I dug in
and went at finding out what could fit an
uncertain strategy.

Gap Analysis/Research
The first step was defining what we are missing.
I did my own internal research and analysis of our
spending plans, and operational and capital
expenditures. We have data lakes, data
warehouses, data hubs, sales data hubs,
eCommerce components, middleware, operational
data, forecasting, loyalty, pricing – reams of data
but no clear insight into what or who our
customers are. Personally, I like to do recon and
innovation to see what might fill or augment the
gaps. So, off I went to CIO conferences,
segmentation sessions, webinars on marketing
funnels and how to acquire and keep customers.
They were a start, however not a clean fit for our
multi-faceted business model. I found potential
solutions from multiple markets: transportation,
logistics, hospitality, technology, travel, and
retail.

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Nearly all the solutions say they are

agnostic technology or platforms (more on
that for a later post). That wasn’t the issue;
it’s determining what solution we can hire,
retain, and execute on. Based on our
capital and operational spend, I focused on
the discovery and (minimum) viable
products to contextualize our customers
into segments and predictive decision-
making models with AI, ML or RPA to
assist the manpower gaps.

As IT organizations continue to embrace

data-driven decisions to help them better
manage costs and maximize revenue, it's
critical to create a unifying style guide that
enables all business stakeholders to focus
on using customer data wisely. This
requires a shared strategy for defining what
data is and isn't acceptable to use across
departments and how that data will be
used, as well as a common approach for
handling sensitive data.-

Oren Gruber

Governance, Vision & Knowing What’s
Achievable…
Like any endeavor that pushes the envelope into new
territory, I needed to know my leadership’s limits. Years
ago, I began using this calculus in consulting that has been
very apt: 2 versions of ROI = Return on Investment and/or
Return on Influence. Perhaps it’s one or both, but when
getting approval or asking for forgiveness, this has proven
to be quite successful. Any proof of concepts or new
directions in innovation would need a future governance
model and milestones that are achievable.
Beyond the Integration, Governance and
Crafting the Vision of What Our Customer
Data Should Be – Politics, $ and Fiefdoms
My data points and overlaps were/are (still in process)
focused on sales channels, loyalty and new customers,
digital footprints, eCommerce funnels, and physical
locations. I chose them because they cover large parts
of my leadership’s portfolios and do not specifically
identify any as a weakness. At this point, the more buy-
in I have the better. My plan is to be able to have
enriched data and insights with a projected drawdown
on labor for too many enterprise systems.

Seems Easy…Look at the Landscape and

Pick
Choosing one (or many solutions) to begin a Proof of
Concept on is always a dicey proposition. I wanted to have
free reign on examining potential insights or outcomes of
the data models but not waste time on dead ends.
I narrowed the scope of test data to match my vision of
what a multi-faceted customer of our business could be.
As the world of business becomes more and more data-
driven, it's imperative that organizations have a clear
and well-defined customer data strategy. However,
crafting an effective customer data strategy is no easy
feat. It requires a careful balance of various factors, and
even then there is no guarantee of success.
Nevertheless, the potential rewards of a successful
customer data strategy make the effort worthwhile.

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CXO Opinion

Elver
Naranjo
Director, Customer
Analytics · Tebra

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How data
analytics is
changing small
practice
healthcare …
from the inside
out.
Last month I had to take my daughter to the hospital. The
diagnosis? A common cold, very common in kids her age.
I did what any 31-year-old parent did… Googled.
I went online to find a provider in my area, that was
available that same day and drove there. While there, got
to the receptionist which greeted me by my name, knew
my daughter's name and asked us to sit. With no calls
made, without leaving her desk, the receptionist seemed to
have connected telepathically with the provider, who in
less than five minutes was already asking us about
symptoms and taking notes.
The whole process ended about an hour later, with a
parent at ease, 5 days’ worth of treatment, and a sudden
realization: technology, data, business analysts, visionary
leaders and hundreds of other data-savvy people made
that interaction not only possible, but smooth and painless.
This aligns with my experience as a data person. Data,
used correctly, shapes every interaction we have had, and
fortunately, this truth is making its way through our
healthcare. Business intelligence is shaping the way we
interact with our providers, insurances, and even other
patients. The difference this makes is profound. Healthcare
has been historically a market resistant to change.
Providers still use paper forms, pharmacies still use paper
Rx, and in 2022, we still see fax machines in medical
offices.
Data and technology have been present in healthcare for
some time, but they have not been fully developed and
utilized in smaller practices in the United States. However,
data analytics is finally making a powerful entrance into our
healthcare. We can boil it down to 3 main trends in how
providers perceive the market:
CONSUMERISM IN HEALTHCARE
In recent years, there has been a shift in the healthcare
landscape. Healthcare is evolving, the days of the doctor
knowing everything and the patient blindly trusting are gone.
Patients are no longer content to sit back and let their doctor
make all the decisions. Now, more than ever, patients are
taking charge of their health and their healthcare journey
and being empowered to make choices about their health.
And they should be. After all, it’s their health. They want to
be involved in their care and they want to be informed about
their options.
As patients become increasingly aware of the importance
of healthcare, they are starting to think of it as a service,
just like any other. They are searching for providers, in the
same way, they would search for any other product on
Amazon, taking into account reviews and star ratings. This
shift in thinking means that patients are no longer just
going to the provider around the corner, but are instead
choosing the one that best meets their needs. Data
Analytics is allowing providers and medical practices to
track their patients' behavior when searching for a doctor,
this includes understanding which consumer profiles are
visiting certain pages the most and scheduling more
appointments for certain specialties and why. Here data
analytics plays a crucial role in helping practices
understand why patients are searching for a particular
doctor or service. This information can be used to improve
the overall patient experience and drive more business.
In this area, the business decisions taken based on
consumer profiling and behavioral analytics can set certain
businesses and practices as clear winners.
DATA AWARENESS
Open your health app and the first you might see is a
dashboard with data about your steps today, heart rate,
sleep quality and others. Medical practices are becoming
more data savvy and are increasingly leveraging data to
make more informed decisions to make accurate decisions.
But wait, Elver, this is not a trend or anything new. Get
your head in the game!
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The healthcare industry is constantly evolving, and one of
the most notable changes is the average age of
providers. As new, younger providers join the workforce,
they bring with them a greater comfort level with
technology, graphs, filters, excel, and dashboards. This
shift is driving the demand for new, better solutions that
are more user-friendly and interactive and most
importantly, fast ways to make decisions. Having a
dashboard with your net revenue collection, outstanding
AR, and even provider occupancy is now the norm within
medical practices. More and more decisions are being
made based on data rather than intuition. The challenge
becomes then, the everyday challenge for data experts,
how do you condense, gamify, and allow for better
decision-making with 3 seconds' worth of attention span?
Creating data is not enough, but true business
intelligence is becoming the norm.
PATIENT-CENTRIC FOCUS
Remember we spoke about consumerism in healthcare?
This also brings a new trend: patient-centric healthcare
versus illness-centric healthcare. Metrics such as wait
times, patient level of effort, patient experience, and post-
appointment surveys are every time more predominant in
our every day for providers, who now are shifting their
focus from not only curing the illness but also ensuring the
best possible patient experience resulting in better
outcomes for everyone involved.
Using data analytics, practices can get a better handle on
which metrics are most important to their patients and how
they can improve in those areas.
This new trend is benefiting both patients and providers by
giving them a better understanding of their needs and how
they interact with the system and each other. This patient-
centric focus helps to improve patient outcomes and
satisfaction while also reducing costs. If patients are
thinking like consumers, practices must start thinking like
service providers, which are now more than ever easily
exchangeable for the provider's next block.
DID YOU NOTICE IT?
Did you? All my experience with my daughter, the
provider, and a pesky cold, from beginning to end, was
engineered by and through data, designed to produce
more data, that then can be analyzed for my providers to
make even more decisions based on data. Every step of
the way, the practice was aware of what was happening,
where I was, and what was I doing, setting a bar for how
long I should have been there before my experience
deteriorated.
And practice management softwares are also catching up
to these trends, making it easier for providers to manage
every step of the process, from positioning themselves to
the right audience and target patient segments to
understanding their performance during and after every
patient visit, all the way to analyzing, in very simple and
organic ways, very complex things as revenue generated
and outstanding balances. Tech healthcare is here to
stay, and so is a new era of business intelligence in
healthcare, not only for the tech giants but the provider
down the street also now using data to provide a better
consumer experience even before the experience starts.
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From Data To Insight:

Tips For A Great Data
Strategy
S o there’s a lot of data out there. Now what? How is that
going to make a difference to you? That depends on what
you want it to do, how many resources you have to
Brainstorming on Current and Future Goals

You would be surprised by how many people forget to

devote, and how much effort you want to put into
maintaining your data-driven approach over the long term.
Make no mistake. There are a lot of different options for
solutions out there, some more human-intensive than
others. But only some will transform the data that is
important to you and turn it into relevant and insightful
information you can use. To get there, you should start
with a great data strategy.
Any suitable data strategy is going to involve
understanding key factors that will impact implementation.
Some of it will be obvious and based on what you should
expect in any data strategy piece. For instance, there
should at minimum be some sense of requirements, how
the pieces will work together, how data flows will be
managed and visualized, and how different users will
interact with data over time. But if the process is really
good, it will also explore the burgeoning potential of new
data-driven approaches and help you determine which is
right for your approach. To get to great, consider the
following:
figure out what they really want their approach to
achieving. Many hold minimal discussions with
organizations about capturing requirements from the
immediate mission and move straight to designing
implementation schema without fully exploring what is
possible. But a great strategy will involve asking the right
questions to get you beyond what you know and into the
realm of “Hmm… I didn’t think about that.” It will get you
thinking about how to use data now and how you could
use it years from now. It’s only once you understand the
potential goals and possibilities that you can narrow down
your options into something realistic that will meet
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Understanding your End-to-End Business Processes
Yeah. This one is pretty obvious. But for a data-driven
solution, some strategists will just look at business
processes related strictly to data flows. To design a great
approach, a strategist will look beyond immediate data
flows and seek to understand how your organization’s
broader goals, and current and future processes could
potentially be impacted by data, how users work with data
now, and how they might work with data in the future.
Indeed, a really good exchange will get into the details of
the process and reveal the possibilities of where the right
data approach can provide multiple levels of insight, and
help your key personnel save time and resources over the
long term.
Audit Data Inventory
One of the great opportunities data-driven approaches
provide is the ability for organizations to look at the data
they currently have and explore how it can be augmented
by the ever-growing availability of new data sets and
streams. Some of that new data might emerge from the
implementation of new tools or techniques that enable you
to mine untapped sources within your organization.
Others might be well-structured feeds provided by
vendors, structured data coming from the ever-expanding
web of inter-connected things (the Internet of Things),
semi- or unstructured data coming from indexed sources
on the internet, or even data emerging from alternate,
non-obvious sources that exist but have not been fully
integrated into any grid (aka, the “wild”). A good data
inventory will get the basics of what you have, but a great
data inventory will also help you understand what is out
there that is relevant and will be available soon.
Knowing which Tools and Techniques to Use
With hundreds of different tools and techniques available,
knowing what the strengths and challenges of different
approaches are and what will work for you is critical. It’s
not always obvious which tool is right for you. Some
techniques may be more than what you need. Some, not
enough. Indeed, when it comes down to your architecture
and design, your strategy will need to explain how these
components will work together, identify potential issues
that can emerge, and provide workarounds to help your
approach succeed. Because a good strategy will be
designed based on how the tools should work, but a great
strategy will reflect the experience of what actually does.
How your Approach will Work in Different Locations
We’re going mobile and we’re going global. And we are
increasingly finding ourselves deploying approaches to
collect and analyze data in multiple, cross-cultural
operational environments.
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It’s no longer enough to develop good strategies that look
at approaches with a single “global” or “national”
standard. With mobility and accessibility to data from
multiple devices as the new normal, the strategies we
develop for our data approaches must enable us to adapt
to different, increasingly localized environments. That
means we have to understand the differences in
infrastructural capacity, geophysical climates, bandwidth,
accessibility, and user usage norms that can exist at the
local level. It can also mean understanding what is local
from a local’s perspective and how that will affect the
implementation of your approach, whether that locale is a
small farming village in Sri Lanka, a manufacturing zone
in a Baltic State, an elephant preserve in Kenya or a
technology firm in a small town in North Carolina.
How your Target Market will Interact with your Data
It used to be that we could design interactive experiences
based on assumptions of how users have interacted with
data in the past.
But data-driven approaches are just starting to enable the
exploration of what data can do and how users can
interact with it. There are very few, if any, use cases of
direct relevance to most organizations or industries from
which to look for inspiration. As a result, developing
interactive experiences for use within a great data-driven
strategy means more than just research into user
preferences and knowing what’s already been done within
your industry. It also requires knowing what has been
done in other industries, and in other related and
unrelated sectors. Inspiration can come from anywhere,
and a great strategist will recognize when it is relevant to
your approach.
Conclusion
This is all to say, it’s worth it to invest resources in
developing a data strategy before you start implementing
and testing any approach, whether that strategy is good
or great. Investing a smaller sum at the onset of any
data-driven approach will help to assure that the system
you ultimately implement works the way you want it to,
avoiding costly modifications in the future.
But if you’re going to invest in a data strategy, it’s worth it
to spend a bit more and get a great one. Why? Because a
good data strategy will help ensure that the approach you
choose will work within your current business processes
and grow with you in the short-, medium-, and long term.
But a great strategy? That’s what will let you see what is
and is not possible, and ultimately help your data tell the
stories that really matter to your bottom line.
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How Data
Analytics Is
Reshaping
Manufacturing
A s far as the manufacturing industry is concerned, whether it
is the technological wave of “Industry 4.0” or the industrial
Internet as one of the key directions of “new infrastructure”,
the tide of the manufacturing industry turning to data-driven
has long been surging.
Few industries have seen the impact of data analytics as
sweeping as manufacturing. New methods of measuring,
processing, and interpreting data have brought about a
transformation in everything from product design, to
manufacturing, to inventory management and delivery.
The manufacturing industry has begun to adopt real-time
data streams to improve operating models. Data captured
in real-time response to equipment maintenance, demand
fluctuations, and supply chain disruptions, increasing
productivity and reducing maintenance costs.
To fully capitalize on the business opportunities presented
by real-time data streaming, manufacturing companies
must rethink their data management approaches and focus
on effective data utilization. This data analytics-driven
approach to “connected manufacturing” is helping
traditional manufacturing move toward a more efficient
operating model that delivers value to businesses,
shareholders and customers. Through the use of data and
advanced analytics, manufacturing companies can realize
a variety of powerful applications, especially in the
following five areas:
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Real-time process monitoring
Real-time process monitoring provides a consistent,
real-time monitoring view of operational status. This
data provides insight into key sensor parameters and
key performance indicators (KPIs), and can measure
production metrics such as cycle time, productivity, and
defect rates.
Predictive maintenance:
Manufacturers can reduce costs and increase efficiency
by predicting maintenance needs based on sensor data
based on the actual condition of the equipment, rather
than relying on reactive maintenance as before.
For factory managers, predictive maintenance is a
crystal ball with a laser focus on your production floor.
In the past, industrial maintenance was about preventive
maintenance. You fixed problems as they arose. Now
predictive maintenance analyzes sensor data and
develops a model of your industrial equipment,
predicting when things might go wrong, and what to do
about it. In the olden days, when a job went wrong, a
worker had to go out on the site, read the meter, then
come back and fix the problem. It was inefficient,
expensive, and, frankly, dangerous. But the advent of
predictive maintenance changed all that. Now, the
technician knows about the equipment, and its status
and has all the information, and often, software tools, he
needs to be productive on the factory floor.
Computer Vision Improves Quality Control:
Using computer vision, manufacturing companies can
automate visual inspections with unprecedented speed and
precision, allowing computers to effectively manage quality
control while reducing costs.
For manufacturers, improving quality control means improving
profits, as well as minimizing risks. Using computer vision, they
train the system to recognize objects, such as threads, that are
too small, too large, or too jagged.
Yield optimization:
The goal of yield optimization is to use data analytics, AI and
optimization techniques to deliver a high-quality product at
optimal cost all while increasing profitability by reducing waste
and productivity.
In any manufacturing process, raw materials are an essential
ingredient. The properties of the raw materials used can have
a significant impact on the eventual production output. This is
especially true for industries such as chemicals, mining, or
pharmaceuticals, where even small variations in raw materials
can lead to large fluctuations in manufacturing yield. While
hundreds of different production parameters are available to
be controlled in the modern manufacturing plant, it can be
difficult to determine which of these parameters are the most
important to monitor in order to ensure a consistent and high-
quality output.
Different materials require different amounts of time to
process. If a machine is not operating at peak efficiency, it can
hold up production. Data analytics tools can help by analyzing
all data related to input material across facility machines and
telling operators how changing each of those input variables
will affect the machine throughput. This information can then
be used to make changes that will improve production
efficiency. Data, analytics, and machine learning can help
optimize yield by dynamically identifying and eliminating
bottlenecks, increasing productivity, reducing inventory, and
improving asset utilization.
Supply Chain Optimization:
The supply chain of any manufacturing unit is critical. The
whole process of manufacturing, from start to finish, involves a
lot of processes that are dependent on each other. Hence, if
one part goes wrong then the entire manufacturing process
becomes inefficient. Data analytics helps companies to identify
bottlenecks and inefficiencies in their supply chain. Supply
chain applications range from simply providing visibility into
inventory levels to complex supply chain optimization and
transformation, with real-time data and high-performance
analytics enabling new levels of supply chain performance.
In order to stay competitive, manufacturers must shift their
focus from just producing products to delivering a better
experience at every touch point in their supply chain – from
product planning to sales to delivery to support. This success
largely depends on how effectively companies can extract
value and insights from their data and use it to build a
profitable manufacturing process that is optimized for their
customers and returns the best ROI to their shareholders. As
AI-based solutions integrate further into manufacturing
operations and production processes, companies will be able
to make better and faster decisions by monitoring real-time
data streams and using analytics to find inefficiencies and
improve operational performance across supply chains.
Discrete Event Simulation
DES provides a high-fidelity representation of a manufacturing
process, taking into account many of the factors that affect
production, such as machine utilization, process constraints,
and material handling. DES can be used to accurately
characterize uncertainty in batch processing times, which is
vital for optimizing production schedules. Data analytics can
help identify patterns in batch processing times and thereby
improve the accuracy of DES models. Ultimately, the use of
DES and data analytics can help reduce costs and improve
efficiency in manufacturing.
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Data
Governance,
Analytics And
The Role Of
The CIO
TIM PATRICK-SMITH
CEO - TPS IT MANAGEMENT

CIOs and executives need to recognize that the CDO role goes beyond technology.
A data governance program is more than just a reporting tool or a data modeling
discipline; it encapsulates the enterprise's entire data management strategy.
To succeed, a CIO must partner with the CDO on their data analytics strategy and
involve them in their BI solutions. - Tim Patrick-Smith

Trends such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and
tighter data protection regulation (GDPR) are set to
exponentially increase the volume of data that
businesses gather and have to manage. Certainly,
IT infrastructure will need to be updated to enable
and secure the myriad of new devices wishing to
connect but for CIO’s, improving IT infrastructure
alone is no longer enough. Instead, they need to
step up and work along with their IT departments
and other areas of the business, to employ effective
strategies to analyze and extract value from the data
available so that their business is in the best
possible position to both compete and succeed in
their relevant markets.
Due to the large volumes of data now in play, the
integration of automated processes is also
necessary to cost-effectively analyze and extract
value. Purely collating huge amounts of data is
useless for a business if there is no structure in
place to analyze it and produce valuable insights. In
addition, there is an ever-growing need to correctly
catalog and control the data a business uses, to
extract value and then remove data within the
constraints of fixed retention timescales. For IT
departments to maintain relevancy and drive
efficiencies, it is important they utilize automation
throughout their organization to deliver value as well
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In recent years we have seen the IoT enter the wider
public consciousness. Today we are seeing many
organizations begin to deliver real insights and ROI from
the technology. For example, automation is increasingly
having a huge impact on the IT service desk. Machine-to-
Machine (M2M) communications can proactively monitor
systems and devices, providing intelligent updates before
users notice or report a problem. This leads to a more
efficient and pre-emptive service desk, cutting the time
and cost of investigating user-reported errors and
improving customer perception of the business and its
systems.
As a result, the simpler requests, such as password
resets that used to be the ‘bread and butter’ work for tier
one support professionals, are now disappearing to be
replaced by self-service portals and automated diagnostic
tools.
But this hasn’t meant that life is easier for IT
professionals. CIO’s need to be careful that the data
gathered by such automated systems are in line with the
data governance rules and that employees understand
and agree to the information gathered and the uses it will
be put to. The consumerization of IT has meant that IT
departments’ own services are now being compared
against other external suppliers.
At the same time, expectations are being set by the
support interactions that employees experience in the
consumer world. Therefore, if IT departments do not
embrace automation, they could find themselves heavily
criticized by others through the use of systems that are
negatively impacting staff and customer satisfaction
levels.
We are seeing a shift in responsibilities for the CIO,
moving away from the provision and maintenance of
physical infrastructure, systems, and devices, to being
primarily concerned with the management and
governance of data.
Digitalization is now center stage and CEOs have an
expectation for their CIOs to play a leading role in
developing this throughout their organization. This means
that CIO’s need to flip their focus from IT efficiency to
one that focuses on value creation.
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To drive this value, data analytics now takes a key role.
As already mentioned, there is now a surplus of data
available at the CIOs fingertips. It is vital that they take
the time to understand what is available to them, what it
all means and how they can leverage it to make
operations run more smoothly, more efficiently and so on,
across all aspects of the business. For the smart CIO,
automation offers an opportunity to elevate their position
at the C-suite level, using the data to provide key insights
that will drive business goals and unearth new insight
opportunities which will provide a competitive market
advantage.
To drive this value, data analytics now takes a key role.
As already mentioned, there is now a surplus of data
available at the CIOs fingertips. It is vital that they take
the time to understand what is available to them, what it
all means and how they can leverage it to make
operations run more smoothly, more efficiently and so on,
across all aspects of the business. For the smart CIO,
automation offers an opportunity to elevate their position
at the C-suite level, using the data to provide key insights
that will drive business goals and unearth new insight
opportunities which will provide a competitive market
advantage.
Therefore, CIOs and IT departments need to adapt to
manage the increasing amount of data available to them
and implement systems and architectures to be able to
extract key information from the data and communicate
this across the organization whilst at the same time
ensuring data governance rules are rigidly applied. While
we are used to seeing the CIO spending time running the
IT shop, those who are high-performing will be spending
less time on this, and more time engaging their board and
senior leadership team on their insights. Educating and
inspiring are now central tasks for the top CIOs.
In order to fulfill this ‘new role’, it is important for the CIO
to become the innovator and visionary for the business.
Through the use of automation in analyzing data, the CIO
must enhance his/her position as key strategic business
advisor. With the information the key asset for any
business, CIOs must provide a clear understanding as to
what information is available to them, how this data can
legitimately be used, and what parts of this information
are valuable to their organization. They then have to
deliver this insight to the board in a way that will provide
key value in meeting the business goals and objectives.
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BIG DATA ANALYTICS :

A LOOK AHEAD
Tatiana Langseth
CEO, Augaroo, Inc

A s 2023 is about to begin we are entering a new era for

data analytics that centers around some core
transformations of the entire industry.

In recent years we saw the migration of corporate data

to the cloud--faster than most people had imagined
would be possible from the previous world of on-
premises data warehouses, the emergence of serverless
and pre-trained general-purpose machine learning
systems, and the rising dominance of the three major
cloud providers.

These themes, and several new ones, will occupy the

days and minds of Chief Data Officers and others
responsible for data and analytics as we enter 2023.
Here are some things to look forward to in this new
year.

LAST THROES OF ON-PREMISES

DATA MANAGEMENT

Hadoop has been called by some the biggest head fakes in

the technology world in the last 50 years. There was so
much momentum behind the big data platform just a few
years ago that it seemed like any other data management
the approach was on a fast track to the dustbin of history.
While Cloudera has since consolidated the Hadoop
industry, and has pivoted away from many discussions of
Hadoop at all, the desire for companies to have a complex
the data management platform is starting to wane.
Data warehousing platforms such as Teradata, Netezza,
and Greenplum was hard enough for companies to scale,
operate, and pay for, and Hadoop seemed to end up
taking that to an even higher level of complexity.

What people want now is a simple platform for data storage and data analysis, one that is easy to operate and use, and
compatible with all of their existing data analytics and data transformation technologies. They also want a data platform
that can be on an on-ramp into the world of machine learning. As we enter next year there are no remaining on-
premises data platforms that can meet these needs, and also provide a level of cost control yet instant scalability that
can be achieved by data platforms that are native to the cloud.

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THE EMERGENCE OF FULL-FEATURED
CLOUD DATA PLATFORMS
Maturing seemingly just in time to catch the fallout of the
above trend, cloud-native data platforms are the obvious
solution as we enter 2023. Even large companies that a
a few years ago said they would never store and process
their data on a public cloud system are doing just that.
The cost savings, scalability benefits, and potentially most
importantly the ability to access cutting-edge machine
learning and AI services in a seamless manner are too
compelling to ignore. Further, concerns about the security
of the cloud have turned out to be relatively unfounded, as
companies realize that large cloud providers have hired
all the best security experts and they may as well leverage
that versus trying to hire their own.
Big Data Processing has become one of the largest drivers
of cloud-based computing growth, and with the increasing
use of machine learning and AI techniques, big data will
continue to be a driver for many years to come.
The cloud data platforms offered by the large cloud mega-
vendors such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, as well
as by independent data platform upstart Snowflake
(together, the “GAMS Platforms”) represent the best of
breed cloud data platform offerings as we enter into 2023.
If you are not using or exploring the use of one of these
platforms as the core of your data management strategy
by the end of this year, you will be in a small minority of
the world.
SERVERLESS, PRE-TRAINED
MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS
One of the benefits of using a modern cloud data platform
in 2022 is that you can have seamless access to pre-
trained machine learning models that are starting to be
provided by large cloud vendors. In the past, you would
need to assemble training data, train an ML model, and
then deploy it to get benefits from machine learning. But
these cloud vendors have now done all of that for you, for
popular machine learning areas like forecasting, image
recognition, sentiment analysis, and personalization.
For example, Amazon Forecast is trained by Amazon using
Amazon and other data that they have gotten from their
own business--some of which would likely be impossible
for any other company to replicate on their own. Amazon
has trained this model to forecast any real-world set of
events. It takes your own data, and uses what it has
learned from Amazon-sourced data, and can predict any
future time series based on what has happened in the past
Amazon Personalize is similar but it predicts the best offer
or other things to offer to a user, based on what users like
them have done in the past.
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If your data is stored in a cloud data platform, it is very
easy and very inexpensive to deploy these best-of-breed
machine learning models against your data without doing
the normal legwork to assemble training data and train
models.
This is definitely an area worth exploring in 2023 as
large benefits can be achieved with relatively small
amounts of effort, and without having to hire your own
army of data scientists.
RISE OF DATA AS A SERVICE (DaaS)
As the amount of data companies manage continues to
rise, the need for scalable and flexible data storage
increases as well. Businesses today face an
unprecedented challenge: the volume of data they
collect and use is growing so fast they are unable to
keep up with the demand for new data-savvy employees
or systems to maintain it. Furthermore, keeping all the
data inside a single organization can't provide the
visibility needed to manage all the information assets an
enterprise has gathered over time. Fortunately, there is
a new way to manage enterprise data – Data as a
Service. As more organizations realized the importance
of their data and their need to adapt to new expectations
related to governance, security, and governance, there
is a rise in the adoption of DaaS solutions.
The advantages of this type of service include the ability
to scale quickly and pay only for what is used, as well as
the elimination of the need to invest in on-premises data
infrastructure. DaaS is becoming an increasingly popular
option for organizations that want to take advantage of big
data but do not have the resources to invest in their own
data infrastructure.
In coming years, DaaS providers are expected to offer
even more sophisticated tools and services, making it an
attractive option for organizations of all sizes.
2022, JUST THE BEGINNING ON ALL
THESE FRONTS
And 2022 is just the beginning in these areas. Cloud data
platforms' capabilities are leaping forward by the day.
More and more pre-trained machine learning models are
being offered by large companies and also by smaller
companies. And privacy concerns and regulations may
start out as a constraint or drag on your business but if
properly complied with, could unlock new avenues of
value-add for your customers, and increased trust
between you and your customer base.
So keep an eye on these trends, and make sure you are
focused on getting the most of them as we enter 2023, as
their importance will only grow from here!