As we move into 2017, Digital Transformation is seen as a core competency instead of innovation for information leaders (especially sales and marketing). In addition, digital spend is an important contributor in 2017 for IT and spend is projected to increase 2.9% (Gartner IT Spend Worldwide Forecast). Here is what the industry analysts have to […]
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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2017: Back to the Future with Artificial Intelligence and Big Data
As we move into 2017 and most of us are still recovering from the Christmas party, I want to pass along some focus areas for data gurus in 2017. I’ve provided some insights from industry analysts (Gartner, Forrester), Venture Capitalists, and the multi-million dollar software companies that are driving the next wave of data and analytics such […]
Perficient’s Portfolio of Data Accelerators
An important aspect of our transformational success stories with our clients and the fantastic journey of forming the Data & Analytical Insights practice within Perficient is the collection of accelerators that Perficient has built over the years. As I am working with different departments within Perficient, I realized the incredible work that teams have done […]
5 Ways to Build a Data Lake and not a Data Swamp
In the last 6 months, my customers and I have been on a journey with some of the largest cloud data lake vendors, open source Big Data vendors, and a team of the smartest Big Data architects that I’ve worked with in my career. As we explore this journey, often our clients are looking to […]
Is Data Warehousing Dead?
In my recent interactions with IT practitioners and leaders either on the software vendor side or on the business side, a common question keeps coming up. With the rise of Big Data, are data warehouse initiatives dead? My answer to them is a resounding NO. To clear this notion, let us discuss the commonalities which […]
SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL
Traditional SQL databases and data warehouses have been around for decades and have been doing really well. However, Big Data NoSQL changed the game with big returns for big investments. Concepts like Edge Analytics have been game changers “uberizing” foundational changes in business models. I recently attended a conference hosted by Snowflake, a data warehouse […]
Perficient’s Big Release in Big Data
An important capability of a services provider such as Perficient is to bring best practices and lessons learned to our customers and our projects. We at Perficient have been very proud of our Big Data capabilities and the transformational journey that we have helped our clients achieve. To better help our clients quickly achieve that […]
4 Ways Big Data is Helping Transform All Companies
A couple of years ago, I read several articles detailing the challenges of Big Data and the confusion around implementation. The message was as follows: Everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it. Since then, technology and Big […]
Dreamforce Day 1 Takeaways from Perficient – #DF16
What an exciting event of Dream Force 2016. First of all mind-blowing statistics of 170,000 registered attendees, 15 million online viewers, a cloud expo with many partners and ISV’s, and 2500+ sessions, 3000+ apps in AppExchange. The OHANA culture is very well displayed throughout the day. Day 1 was focused on Artificial Intelligence and what […]
To Space and Beyond: NASA’s Mission with Connected Data
Recently I heard an interesting story about a space mission shared by Captain Scott Kelly, an astronaut who set the record for the total accumulated number of days spent in space, and was most recently in space for 340 days on an International Space Station mission. Capt. Kelly compared the two different information eras of […]
Known Process, Unknown Tech vs Unknown Process, Known Tech
An interesting take on data from “The CUBE” interviewing Anil Chakravarthy (CEO, Informatica). Until recently, technology was driven by requirements from known processes such as CRM, ERP, and HR modules. In recent years, technology such as Cloud, Big Data, and SaaS applications have been driving new business processes and identifying opportunities for improvements and new […]
6 Disruptions in the World of Data – Day 2 Informatica World 2016
Day 2 at Informatica World has been equally as informative and exciting as day 1. The day started with Amit Wahlia (Chief Product Officer) discussing the 6 data disruptions leading to innovations that Informatica is watching – including mobile, social media, big data, IoT, security, and cloud. A cool example of data-driven disruption was Amazon […]