The original post can be found here. AMA Interview with Prasad Bhandarkar, Head of Search & Profile Data Engineering, Facebook AMA Interview with Prasad Bhandarkar, Head of Search & Profile Data Engineering, Facebook As part of the Institute of Product Leadership’s continuous effort to engage senior executives in the industry to share their knowledge…
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A Case for Long Overdue “ERP for Customer Analytics”
Building customer analytics capability for organizations is a scary proposition these days. What your organization likely craves for is something like this – insights about customers that one has not even thought of analyzing, let alone do something about it. Unfortunately, you start with a combination of massive legacy data mess and a huge mumbo…
Database Platform Map
If you are as confused as most about various database technologies in play, here is a slightly dated map of technologies available. All credits to 415 Research. The real question is, how far away are we from the world where the focus in Big Data changes from technology stack to apps. When can we have…
Product Management Approach To Business Analytics Strategy
Historically, many organizations viewed data and analytics as a support function; one that provides reports, develops complex models, and helps make other functions smarter. However, according to a research report – High performing enterprises are 4.6x more likely than underperformers to agree that data is driving their business decisions High performance enterprises consistently analyze more…
The G Word – A Case for Lean Data “Governance”
Data Governance is one of those most misunderstood concepts. A lot of BS fills up around this word in many companies. A host of companies suck at this. In fact, Gartner had made some really drastic predictions in this area in 2012, such as – by 2016, 20 percent of CIOs in regulated industries would…
2015 State of Business Analytics – Interesting Research Reveals Fascinating Trends
I came across this fascinating research report – commissioned by salesforce.com and published on forbes.com. 2015 State of Analytics Here are some key themes and takeaways plus my own observations based on personal experience. Between 2015 and 2020, the number of data sources analyzed will jump 83% Number of sources actively analyzed by businesses has…
Bloomberg Research on Adobe’s Information Management Transformation
The following is link to Bloomberg Research article on Adobe’s strategy to accelerate cloud business transformation with Information Management. This is partly based on my presentation in SAP HANA user group. Adobe Gets Personal with Customer Excerpts: “A key piece of Adobe’s data strategy is Adobe Dash, a business intelligence platform that connects data…