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Big Data could be the
death of you
Guy Harrison
Executive Director, Information Management
R&D
@guyharrison
guy.Harrison@software.dell.com
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But Seriously
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Big Data might
Kill you
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Smartphones
Cloud
services
Data
Exhaust
Social
Networks
Personalizati
on
Location
Services
The World is
flat
Sensors
Everywher
e
Wearables
, Glass
Data and
Algorithms
are Life and
Death for
business
Big Data perfect storm
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Retail as an
example
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Prevelance of Showrooming
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Consumer Electronics
Home Improvement
Pct
Garter Research G00249458
Survey Analysis: Focus on Customer Basics to Challenge Amazon, as 'Showrooming' Is Universal but Not Unbeatable
Published: 12 February 2013
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Why?
Selection
Stock
Faster
Cheaper
Dynamic Pricing
Predictive ordering
Assortment
optimization
Predictive
recommendations
Personalization
The Solution
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Some novel defenses
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The Revolution
is not over yet
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Willy Bowman
Nationality:
German
Don’t Mention the
WAR!
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Buying choices:
Amazon softcover: $45.99
Oracle Performance
Survival Guide
Amazon Kindle: $39.99
Say “screw you bookseller” to
buy kindle version
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First mover
advantage
• The First vendor to offer
you a product at a good
price has the advantage
• It is totally insufficient to
lay a bunch of products
on a table in a building
• Only big data analytics
can provide this first
mover advantage
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There’s a similar story in every
industry
Web
Transport
Power Grid
Dating
Retail
Security
FinanceGovernment
Science
Healthcare
Insurance
Telecom
Advertising
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Data Science is
hard
• Machine
learning, collective
intelligence, Hadoop, pred
ictive
analytics, R, Weka, Mahout,
are HARD
• Small-medium businesses
need help to compete
• Data scientists to the
rescue?
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We Need a Big
Data Analytic
platform for
the
mainstream
business
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Dell’s Kitenga Analytic Suite
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Dell Software Group
Toad for Hadoop (beta)
Toad BI Suite
Shareplex for Hadoop
Oracle->Hadoop replication
SQOOP adaptor for Oracle (Apache license)
Toad for Cloud freeware
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We’re Hiring
software.dell.com

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Editor's Notes

  1. And this of course doesn’t count the people who don’t go into the online store in the first place.