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Lillian TaylorRegional Director, Predictive Analytics & Business Intelligence

Global IBM Watson Data Platform ‘Evangelist’@LillianSaysSo

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilliangtaylor/

Big Data: The What and Why of Data LakesFebruary 23, 2017

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Who we are

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About Aviana

Founded in 1994 Zero Debt! One of the top IBM analytics partners Industries:

– Hospitality and Gaming– Retail & Distribution– Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences– Government and Education– Healthcare Payers and Providers

Agile Consulting Approaches

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BI and Analytics

Performance Management

Advanced Analytics

Information Management

• The most reputable Analytics partner in the West

• Certified, creative and passionate consultants

• Customized Training

• Deploy, Upgrade, User Adoption, Maintenance

• Focused on User Experience and adoptionAgile engagements - Lower costs - Accelerated value

Aviana’s BI and Analytics practice

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Why Aviana?

Aviana has documented over $1.8 billion in ROI for their clients. The overwhelming majority of Aviana clients are repeat clients because we keep working until our client is successful.

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Analytics Background– Finance, Operations, Sales, Marketing

• Coding Tribal Knowledge for Predictive & Prescriptive Post ERP Disaster Corporate Turn-Around

– Crisis Application / System Development – Quickly looking for opportunities to quickly grow

revenue, reduce cost Sales Career

– All Channels Retail, LAR, VAR, Web• Wireless

– Infrastructure, Apps, SCADA, Communication Platforms)

• AIDC: Barcode, RFID, Biometrics– Inventory , Asset Management– Point-Of-Sale, Time and Attendance

• Collaboration• Talent Management• Information Management & Analytics

Who is this crazy chic?

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The Evolution of Capturing and Sharing Data

Early Data Lakes

MetadataManagement

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Barriers to Entry have Crumbled!

Storage Capacity

Computing Power

Cloud

Open and Source and APIs

(Graphic shamelessly stolen from www.ctrls.com)

What’s Different Today?

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Guided

Learning

Then… Now… Next…

The evolution of Analytics

Engaging

PervasiveReporting CognitivePredictivePrescriptive

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The Analytics Journey

Descriptive- What's Happened?This is well established and while BI professionals will argue, customers have plenty of good enough choices, several have verticalized. Predictive - What's Likely to Happen?This field has some established players, such as SPSS and SAS. However, now that large sets of data are accessible and digestible it has sparked the explosion of Data Science. Newly available unstructured data has some folks almost seemingly taking a step backward into manually coding and open source with R, Python, etc.

Prescriptive - What are you going to do based on what may happen? Whether it’s advanced decision optimization or cognitive applications to aid decision making in a human capacity, leveraging *all* accessible data to make decisions.

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Fast Forward to the End *Before* You Begin

“Beat the meanest snake closest to you!”Workforce Planning

Retiring tribal knowledgeSpeed to ValueAttracting & Retaining Talent

Operations and Supply ChainCost Reduction, Predictive MaintenanceManufacturing EfficiencyStock-Outs, Surplus

Product Development & MarketingPublic / Customer SentimentMarket Analysis

Sales & FinancePerformance Management

Customer ServiceAutomation of ServicesFeedback and Net Promoter

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Greater Good Use Cases

Data for GoodHealthcare• Research and Clinical Trials• Population Studies• Patient, Caregiver Experience• Cost Reduction- Patients, Payers, and Providers• Predictive and Preventative

Environmental• Impact Studies• Disaster Preparedness• Research and Monitoring

All Greater Good Projects• Sharing of methodologies, resources, data sets• Ask me! Global Good Archive Initiative!

Education• Suicide, Violence, Bullying Intervention• Customized Learning• Cost Savings• Teaching Aids• Capacity Planning• Safety

Government• Fraud Detection and Prevention• Automation and Cost Savings• Retiring workforce• Crime Analysis, Body Camera / Monitoring Tech• Freedom of Information Requests• Multipurpose Systems• Interagency Collaboration

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Data First Methodology

Start AnywhereFocus on your biggest business opportunity or problem

Fill the GapsStrategy. Expertise. Skills. No more and no less

Build Value at Every StepAchieve a data-driven culture, one initiative at a time

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What is Watson?

Weird Sciencehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8dldLG_ZhI

John Kelly:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrOCrqNU1Bw

Watson How it Works:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xcmh1LQB9I

World of Watson Video 1.5minhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Nx16ulB0c

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Where is Watson Working? – Ummm everywhere….

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Understanding the Watson brand.

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The Watson Data Platform Path

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The Evolution of Analytics Platforms

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The Evolution of Analytics Platforms – What’s Happening?

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The Evolution of Analytics Platforms – What Happened?

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The Evolution of Analytics Platforms- Sharing What’s Happened

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The Evolution of Analytics Platforms- Data Mining and Discovery

SETI was doing this before it was cool

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Moving through this Journey – the barriers to success:– Infrastructure Costs– Expensive Rip and Replace– Migrations– Failed Migrations– Fast Evolving Technology and Demands

• Half way through – there’s something better, faster, cheaper• Executive Decisions – MUST BE NIMBLE

Heavy Demand on IT – poor employee satisfaction – Relearn, Retool, Stress – starts to say “No” – Do you blame them?Self Service – Shadow IT – poor data quality, security risksALL SLOWS THE JOURNEY TO THE END VALUE – then all is considering a waste and we’re back to spreadsheets.

The Evolution of Analytics Platforms- The Barriers

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THIS IS “THE GUTENBERG PRESS LEVEL” CHANGE!

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Watson Data Platform – Data Sources – Anywhere you choose!

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Watson Data Platform – Databases – Any flavor you want, yours, theirs or ours!

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Watson Data Platform – Analyze – Data Science, Open Source, or Traditional Applications

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Watson Data Platform – Development – What your resources know or want to learn

Don’t want to code? – Browse and Choose

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Watson Data Platform – Governance – One Version of the Truth

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Watson Data Platform – Don’t Get Locked in – Open Source Platform

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Watson Data Platform – Folks Who Understand The Business

Planning Analytics (TM1)

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Watson Data Platform – Folks who understand the nature of data

Planning Analytics (TM1)

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Planning Analytics (TM1)

Data Connect

Watson Data Platform – Folks who understand your data and know where it is

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Watson Data Platform – Folks who use the data to build and deploy

Planning Analytics (TM1)

Data Connect

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Watson Data Platform – All of them working from a single platform – agility!

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Watson Data Platform – Missing a piece? IBM has it, or it can work with yours

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Watson Data Platform – New Project? Lather, Rinse, and Repeat – Refine as you go – Cognitive and Collaboration – it only gets better

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Watson Data Platform – Not Ready? Get services Ala Carte, prepare for when you are

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Blue Mix – The Market Place for All – Bare Metal to IoT starter Kits and Watson API’s

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Ready to do a little Data Discovery with Watson Tech?

Start with the Watson Analytics 101 Tutorial on BigDataUniversity.comTrial Available – Don’t Build Work Product Just Yet! Call me first: 888-898-DATA

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Let’s Discuss a Future Proof Strategy! – Initial Consultation & Planning Advice– our gift you

• We don’t want to tell you later you need to rip and replace or migrate– Making an investment in a functional or vertical tool?

• Reporting / Business Intelligence• Marketing Analytics• Collaboration• Knowledge Management• Enterprise Content ManagementDON’T GET LOCKED INTO A SINGLE USE CASE! Leverage that investment for a full platform, you’ll get the functionality you need or almost all of it, plus the ability to know more, discovery more, and do more – making smart, data based, decisions!

Without data you’re just another person with an opinion! – Edward Demming, Data Scientist

Think You’re Ready to Leverage Big Data for your Org?

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Sensitive Data? – We have an opportunity!

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Don’t try to go learn it all – Trust Me!

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Lilian TaylorRegional Director, Global Evangelist888-898-DATAlilliant@avianaglobal.comText: 206-227-1733Skype: lilliantbTwitter: @LillianSaysSo

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