Big Data has become critical to the enterprise because of the massive amount of untapped data sources, and the potential to gain new insights that were previously not possible. So, how to get started with Big Data and Hadoop becomes a question more pertinent than ever before.
Listen to leading analyst at Ovum, Tony Baer, as he discusses answers to the key questions around how to:
Approach Big Data and associated business challenges
-- Identify what types of new insights can be revealed by Big Data
-- Staff for this undertaking and implement the technology necessary to be successful
-- Take the first steps toward getting started with Big Data on Hadoop
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4. Tony Baer @Ovum
Principal Analyst
Tony Baer leads Ovum’s Big Data research area.
Over his 25 years in the industry, he has studied
issues of data integration, software and data
architecture, middleware, and application
development. Having tracked the emergence of BI
and data warehousing back in the 1990s, Baer
sees similar parallels emerging in the world of Big
Data today. His coverage focuses on how Big Data
must become a first-class citizen in the data center,
IT organization, and the business.
@TonyBaer
About Our Speaker"
5. Azita Martin @datameer
CMO
Azita Martin is Chief Marketing Officer at Datameer
with extensive marketing leadership experience at
high-growth start-ups and category-creating public
companies like Salesforce and Siebel.
Azita has global responsibility for scaling all
aspects of Datameer’s product and corporate
marketing, including defining go-to-market strategy,
driving thought leadership, and increasing brand
awareness and customer acquisition.
Prior to Datameer, Azita built and led marketing
teams for both fast-growing start-ups and major
public companies, including Get Satisfaction, Moxie
Software, LiveOps, Salesforce, Siebel and SGI.
#datameer @datameer
About Our Speaker"
25. Combining More Data for New Insights"
Social Media
Mobile
Ads
Web Logs
CRM
Product Logs
Transaction
Call Center
Are keywords related to
customer segments?
Which campaign
combinations accelerate
conversion?
Which product
features drive
adoption?
Which features do users
struggle with?
What behavior
signals churn?
Where do hack attempts
originate?
How do we determine
which cell towers to
upgrade?
Can we predict production
failure?
But as we said up front, appealing to the enterprise changes the script for Hadoop –
When Hadoop was invented by Yahoo, Facebook, and others, it was for solving highly specialized problems. And as a new technology that they open sourced to the Apache Foundation, the practitioners were a small, select, highly elite group. Hadoop clusters were their own specialized environments set apart from the operational systems, and run by their own dedicated teams.
Hadoop emerged as an island of its own. That model will not be sustainable in the enterprise!
That’s why we at Ovum firmly believe that for Big Data – and Hadoop – to gain traction with the enterprise, it must get off the island. It must become a first class citizen in the enterprise.
Updated Nov. 1 (Non-NDA)
This use case study is a major credit card company (AMEX) that spend millions of dollars in both digital and non digital advertisement. This credit card company used Datameer to correlate purchase history, profile information and behavior of their customers on social media sites. For example, they collected customer profile data on their platinum customers. Then they’d correlate this data with transaction history and things the customers “liked” on Facebook.
From those findings the company targeted their advertisement on TV channels their high value customers like to watch (food network) and offered promotions at an organic foods store, where their customers frequently shop at. As a result of using Datameer, they were able to decrease their customer acquisition costs by 30% . For a major credit card company this represents millions of dollars in annual savings.
Additional detail:
This financial services company gathers data from Facebook and generate profiles of what people likes. They gather and correlate this data to check for patterns. With these patterns, they can set their marketing strategy to target people of certain profiles with certain advertisements. As a result of using Datameer, they were able to decrease their customer acquisition costs by 30% and the time it took to create these reports down to 1 day from 16 weeks.
The average customer acquisition cost is about $60 per customer for credit cards. For first 3 months of 2013, new cards increased 3% to 42.5M for this company. So that is 1.275M new customers. If we reduced customer acquisition costs by 30%, that is $18 per customer, or $23M.
http://about.americanexpress.com/news/pr/2012/earnings-preannouncement.aspx
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50496724/ns/business-small_business/t/how-much-did-new-customer-cost-you/#.UYPBwSuAe24
http://www.rtefs.com/images/Forrestor_20Financial_20Services_20Firms_20Open_20Up_20About_20Customer_20Acquisition_20Costs.pdf
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1351731-american-express-gains-on-consumer-spending-and-international-growth
Vivint
— Serves 800,000+ homes, Vivint’s touchscreen panel (their hub) creates a streamlined network that connects all of the home’s smart systems (security, HVAC, lighting, small appliances, video, etc).
— Uses Datameer to:
— integrate and analyze not just row data but also streaming data, which is a key component to their smart home analytics solution.
— to parse, join and sessionize various complex data streams to determine occupancy and vacancy patterns in an effort to reduce the number of false alarms and improve the overall efficiency of their devices.
— sessionize data based on events and looking at log windows before and after a selected event.
—Ensures a better customer experience by improving the understanding of the customers behavioral patters.
— Time savings due to rapid implementation of the analytical solution for sensor data
— Cost savings due to minimal investment in skilled Hadoop resources
— Can compare to other to others homes and learn behavior
— Based on outlier detection - e.g. unusual movements within house and detect thieves, improve products from this insights)
NetApp
This enterprise hardware company was generating and collecting data that was doubling every 15 months. In addition to the rapidly growing data volumes, there were hundreds of different semi-structured and unstructured log formats. Before Datameer, analysts were forced to write ad hoc Perl code to parse a subset of the log files and store data locally. By using Datameer, the company was able to derive valuable insights that helped virtually every group -- Support, Development, Marketing, Services. They also use their data-driven intelligence to offer “Premium Support” as a new revenue service offering.
For example, Support was able to send out a replacement part before the component actually failed. Sales was able to look at usage patters to improve forecasting and renewal negotiations.
Additional detail:
http://documentation.datameer.com/documentation/display/SALES/Device+Analytics
QUESTIONS?
Well, that ends our webcast today. Thank you to Tony and Azita for talking with us today as we wrap up 2014.
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This concludes the audio portion of our webcast today. Thank you and Happy Holidays. See you in 2015.