There are a lot of trends in data and analytics on the rise with AI, advanced analytics, IoT, and data science. But even with all of those new ways to explore and transform your enterprise data assets, business intelligence (BI) is still at the core of effective data strategy. Gartner estimates a $22.8 billion growth in […]
Arvind Murali –
Arvind Murali is the Chief Data Strategist for Data Governance with Perficient. His role includes defining data strategy and governance to deliver transformative data platforms. Arvind has served as an executive advisor for data strategy and governance to organizations across several industries. Arvind’s dedication to solving challenges and identifying new opportunities has provided valuable business-focused results for clients, such as providing self-service access to data for global sales teams; helping physicians create informed wellness plans; and delivering insights about current supply chain inventories. He is a passionate Vlogger on YouTube and discusses real-world insights, data platform trends, and the importance of governance as big data continues its exponential growth.
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Informatica World 2018 Takeaways for Intelligent Disruption
Another successful Informatica World 2018 concluded in Las Vegas last week. The conference provided many insights into how Informatica is playing a role in intelligent disruption with over 1,200 sessions and 112 customer and partner speakers. Below are my four takeaways from the conference this year. 1. Data 3.0 I remember discussing Data 3.0 last […]
Data Strategy Framework: Handle with CARE
As Gartner predicted, artificial intelligence is emerging as a core business and analytical competency. Although information is still not recognized as a line item in a corporate balance sheet (data as an asset), it is still a strategic asset that can drive business value. Therefore, it’s important to have data strategy framework in place. On […]
Amazon Knows What You Want to Buy BEFORE You Buy It
I was reading an article about “Amazon using its MultiDimensional Datasets”. The news never gets old to me that Amazon Retail leveraging its Big Data Ecosystem to access 1,000,000,000 GB of data on more than 1,400,000 servers to increase sales through predictive analytics does personalized recommendations, price optimization, and anticipatory predictions on what the customer […]
Field of Data Science in 2018
It is no secret that a data science and analytics specialty was one of the hottest and fastest growing careers in 2017, leading to resource shortages (as denoted by the picture below). However, in 2018 and beyond, a data scientist will evolve into data engineer, a data steward, and a governance lead. Every field will […]
Insights from Informatica World 2017
As mentioned last week, Perficient was a proud sponsor of this year’s Informatica World conference. We met with many Informatica customers and companies evaluating the suite of products. The event was also a great opportunity to hear from other thought leaders in the areas of Big Data, MDM, and cloud. It was clear from Informatica […]
3 Essential Elements of an Intelligent Data Platform
There are 4 major shifts in the market for data integration: Moving from a massive enterprise data warehouse to Hadoop for cost savings Moving from enterprise data models to data lake architecture for a quick time-to-value when on-boarding new data Hybrid on-premises/cloud approaches including a variety of enterprise SaaS applications Real-time streaming analytics and self-service […]
5 Themes from Gartner Summit and World Economic Forum
At the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) and Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, a few themes were resounding and common between the two large conferences. These themes all centered on driving innovation across the world with new data and analytics solutions, enabling “responsive and responsible leadership”. WEF was clear that over the coming years, jobs […]
Millennial Generation and their Relationship with Data
During closing statements at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Alibaba’s Jack Ma made the following recommendations: Focus on the next 30 years where the technology invented is going to help people Focus on people less than 30 (Internet Generation) since they will dominate the world Focus on companies less than 30 employees (small business) […]
Role of Analytics & BI Platforms in Digital Transformation
This is the era of “wanting to be engaged and needing to be informed”. For ages, lagging indicators such as customer sales and customer problem solving were the driving factors for customer satisfaction. However, using predictive analytics to understand valuable customers and appropriately engage with them is a key aspect of business intelligence, as pointed […]
Optimize Business Outcomes with Data-Driven Customer Journeys
CIOs are key contributors of new business models and organizational strategy. Data is the key asset for CIOs and CDOs to have a seat with the CEO, CFO, and CMO. In addition to unstructured data collection like social media and machine data, companies have started to consume strategic market competition data such as benchmarks, new […]
Role of Data in Enhancing a Customer Journey
As Simon Sinek pointed out, “people want to do business with you because of why you do what you do.” The story of Steve Jobs revolutionizing the marketing of Apple products and building a cult of Apple loyalists is timeless. This is the age of the customer and word of mouth is the best marketing […]