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1 CIO Roundtable - Big March 13, 2013
2 Big and its Dimensions Big refers to internal and external data that is multi-structured, generated from diverse sources in near real-time and in large volumes making it beyond the ability of traditional technology to capture, manage and process within a tolerable amount of elapsed time. Big Environment Big Dimensions 2 billion page views daily CRM data ERP data million active users globally 300 million live listings 75 billion database calls daily ~ 20 petabytes and growing 250 million searches daily Server logs Click Streams Social Media Images/Video 3 rd party data Volume Velocity Variety The sheer size of data in organizations is exploding from TB to PB The pace at which data is being generated today is significant The data formats, structures and semantics are more diverse and inconsistent Source: - 2
3 Big Entails More than Just Growth in Volume Big refers to enterprise data that is unstructured, generated from nontraditional sources, and/or real-time in addition to being large in volume. Enterprises face the challenge and opportunity of storing and analyzing Big, respectively. Movies/ Videos M2M Interactions Search Engine Complexity High Customer Calls Stock Market Transactions Social Media Interactions Digital Images Text Messages Customer Location Company Financial Credit Card Transactions Weather Traffic Point-of-Sale Bank Account Employee Procurement System Travel Bookings Retail Footfall Low Scale High Note: Complexity refers to the different sources and formats of data. Scale refers to the volume and velocity of data. Denotes Big category 3
4 Big Entails More than Just Growth in Volume (2) What are the Implications of Big for Enterprises? Enterprises cannot ignore the influx of data, mostly unstructured, and will need to increasingly invest in storage technology. Gartner projects enterprise data to grow more than 650 percent over Moreover, eighty percent of the data will be unstructured. 2 Coping with Big Deriving Value from Big Enterprises can leverage the data influx to glean new insights Big represents a largely untapped source of customer, product, and market intelligence. According to the 2011 IBM Global CIO Study, 83 percent of CIOs cited business intelligence and analytics as top priorities for their businesses over Think of a stack of DVDs reaching from earth to the moon and back. David Thompson, CIO, Symantec 3 The promise and scope of Big is that within all that data lies the answer to just about everything. Vivek Ranadivé, CEO, TIBCO 3 4 información contenida en este [documento] es propiedad de Deloitte Consulting Group, S.C., por lo que queda prohibida su reproducción y distribución total o parcial de cualquier forma o medio
5 Big, Information Management and Analytics Big is the next step in the evolutionary path of Information Management and Advanced Analytics. Big Fast Leverage large volumes of multistructured data for advanced data mining and predictive purposes Management Initial processing and standards Reporting Standardized business processes Evaluation criteria Analysis Focus less on what happened and more on why it happened Drill downs in an OLAP environment Modeling & Predicting Leverage information for predictive purposes Utilize advanced data mining and the predictive power of algorithms Information must be real-time (i.e., extremely up to date) Query response times must be measured in seconds to accommodate real-time, operational decisionmaking Analyze streams of data, identify significant events, and alert other systems More operational decisions become executed with pattern-based, event-driven triggers to initiate automated decision processes integration Maturity Source: TDWI, HighPoint Solutions, DSSResources.com, Credit Suisse, Deloitte 5
6 Current State of Big Initiatives Big provides new tools and technologies that address problems in multiple functional areas across the enterprise. 1. What are the main business requirements or inadequacies of earlier-generation BI/DW/ETL technologies, applications, and architecture that are causing you to consider or implement big data? In traditional BI and DW applications, requirements drive applications. Big data turns this model upside down 2. What enterprise areas does your big data initiative address? Marketing 45% Operations 43% Sales 38% Risk management 35% IT analytics 33% Finance 32% Product 32% Customer service 30% Logistics 22% HR 12% Other 12% Brand 8% 3. What is the scope of your big data initiative? Big data need is enterprise wide Source: Deloitte Research, Forrester 6
7 People Technology Current Big Challenges Big provides opportunities however there are challenges that need to be addressed and overcome. Issue Scalability Integration Primary Challenge Flexibility of infrastructure to interact with extreme volume using a variety of data formats Cost and effort associated with scalability Increasing data volume, variety, and complexity results in increased time and monetary investments to remove barriers to compiling, managing and leveraging data across multiple platforms and systems Implications of standards and master data management Deployment Analytics Quality Identifying the best software and hardware solutions and determining the best overall infrastructure solution; internally, externally or using a combination Transitioning from legacy systems to newer technology Considerable time and money invested to create algorithms that scale to big data volume and variety and improve user experience Compromise of quality due to volume and variety of data Cost of maintaining all data quality dimensions: Completeness, Validity, Integrity, Consistency, Timeliness, and Accuracy Governance Privacy Talent Identifying relevant data protection requirements and developing an appropriate governance strategy Reevaluation of internal and external data policies and regulatory environment Privacy issues related to direct and indirect use of big data sources Evolving security implications of big data Identifying and acquire the skill sets required to understand and leverage Big to add value 7
8 Asking Relevant Questions to Solve the Challenges Area Scalability Integration Deployment Analytics Quality Governance Privacy Talent Questions What levels of availability and reliability are possible in mission-critical applications with large data volumes? Who can provide the best real-time scalability and storage? Is the cost to value justified for building the infrastructure to handle Big? With the increasing volume of data, what is the best infrastructure and integration strategy to keep up with the increasing demands from volume and processing speed. How can non-traditional unstructured data be integrated with data stored in traditional transactional systems? With an ever increasingly complex environment, how do we develop a strategy for integration and deployment? Given the specialized nature of processing needed, is cloud computing an appropriate platform choice, and if so, what variant of cloud computing (public, private, hybrid) is needed? With so much data, what are the right questions to gain additional insight that adds value to the enterprise? To our customers? How can we tailor the user experience for analytic insights? How can decision-makers comprehend the results of analyzing so much data quickly enough to act? With increasing volume of data, what data to we keep? And where do we focus on quality with the greatest returns? How do we insure the quality unstructured data? How do we measure the quality of extraction and processing procedures used with Big? What data governance is appropriate when analysis is distributed, needs change and data definitions and schemas evolve over time? What intellectual property, licensing, and data protection considerations apply when Big environments are distributed across organizational and national boundaries? How are regulations around audit trails and data destruction to be interpreted in a Big environment? How does the company plan to address Personally Identifiable Information? If externally hosted, what level of confirmation can we get that the provider will keep our customer data/information private? How can security and privacy concerns be factored into the design of a Big environment to reduce vulnerability to external and internal threats? Does your organization have the skills sets necessary to leverage Big? How can current IT skill sets best be leveraged in evolving the infrastructure to include Big? 8
9 Big Suggested Roadmap A Big Roadmap begins with the decision makers and their crunchy questions and then proceeds to the data sources and technologies that are required to address the needs Assess Current Capabilities Identify Opportunities 3 4 Identify and Define Use Cases Identify strategic priorities and ask crunchy questions 5 Implement Pilots and Prototypes Adopt strategic ones in Production Identify tools, technologies and processes for use cases and implement pilots and prototypes Based on the assessments and business priorities identify and prioritize big data use cases Assess and application landscape including archives Analytics and BI capabilities including skills Assess new technology adoptions IT strategy, priorities, policies, budget and investments Current projects Current data, analytics and BI problems Prioritize and implement successful, high value initiatives in production
10 Identify Opportunities 1 Identifying strategic opportunities starts with asking crunchy questions for sticky business issues. This process is independent of the underlying data (volume, variety and velocity) and therefore applicable to both traditional and big data analytics. Asking Crunchy Questions Customers and social media What s the buzz about your company online and how could it impact sales forecasts? What are analysts saying about your organization? What about Customers and online influencers? Who are the next 1,000 customers you ll lose and why? Which trade promotion programs have the highest impact on profitability? What factors most influence customer loyalty? Why? How do factors such as politics and demographics affect the price your customers are willing to pay? Which factors have the most adverse effects on customer satisfaction? Sustainability and supply chain Which facilities are using more energy than they should? Which suppliers are at risk of going out of business? What is the impact of shipping costs on pricing? Which locations offer the best options for setting up your next distribution center? Employees and risk Which new-hire characteristics best reflect your organization s risk intelligence profile? Which are most likely to steal from you? Why do high-potential employees leave your company? What would cause them to stay? 10
11 IT Architecture Organisation & Governance Reporting & Analytics The results are based on 9 answers coming from ICT, F&A, S&M and RER. As-Is: To-Be: (2 to 3 years ambition level) Assess Current Capabilities 2 Assessment of current capabilities is crucial for identifying the scope and requirements for Big initiatives. and Application assessment can provide information about the data assets that can be leveraged. Current Analytics and BI capabilities assessment can provide information on the tools that can be integrated with Big technologies. and Application Assessment Current and Application landscape assessment should reveal All data assets in the organization including archives All source systems in the organization and their dependency Associated data governance practices Standards, Quality and integration information Information about Master Management and maturity Analytics and BI Capabilities Current Analytics and BI capabilities assessment should reveal All Analytics and BI capabilities and maturity Ownership and usage of Analytics and BI Related skill sets Analytics and BI practices and policies Summary of Results Immature Developing Mature Availability of Reporting Reporting Capability & Usage Business Ownership of Standards, Quality, Integration Common Business Language Business Positioning of DW / BI Business Benefits of DW / BI Management Support & Governance Best in class Reporting Delivery IT Organization IT Architecture DW and BI Design Approach Other Considerations Assessment phase should consider Analytics and BI pain points assessment IT strategy, priorities, policies, budget and investments Current Analytics and BI related project Other potential projects where Big technologies can be leveraged 11
12 Assess Big Analytic Skill Sets 2 The drive to find and employ new skills sets comes with the need to manage rapidly increasing quantities of data and the desire to extract valuable insights from it. Functional experts with industry and domain specific skills Functional Expertise Professiona l Services Information Consumption and Decision Making Application Programming BI Analysis Management Infrastructure Management Enabling Big Management and Analytics Management, scientific and technical consultants Analytics oriented decision makers and Business Analysts Scientists Research Specialists BI Professionals Application Programmers Architects Management Professionals Infrastructure Management and Support Professionals BI, Advanced Analytics and Big experts Statisticians, Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, Mining Experts, Operations Research Analysts, Scientists Distributed database management experts, NoSQL experts Distributed Systems Management experts, Cloud Management experts Besides Growth, Technology Advances Are Driving The Competitive Landscape for New Talent! 12
13 Pilot and Adopt 4 5 Valuable time and money can be saved by adopting a business user driven pilot/prototyping approach that targets value providing initiatives. End user environment Production Visualize Delivery Spreadsheets, Specialized tools, Sandboxes Hypotheses / Question? Pilot 13 1 Business user Value? Yes 2 Repeat Process Repeat the POC / prototyping process with more value providing initiatives Implement POC Prototype 4 AND Adopt Implement successful, high value initiatives in production 3 Analysis Reports Dashboards & Scorecards Analytical Environment Big Environment LOB Applications Marts Quality Extract & Load Analysis Integration Discovery & Cleansing Ingestion Collection Governance & Stewardship Analyze Analysis Cubes Transform Warehouse Hadoop MPP Appliance In-memory Files Marketplace external data
14 Bringing Big into the current Business Ecosystem Big introduces new technologies and tools for coping with the volume, velocity, and variety that characterize data sources in current business ecosystem. The opportunities are exciting however a multitude of difficult questions need to be answered. What data sources should be collected and how can they be acquired efficiently? How is data quality managed across so many sources of data, many of which come from outside the organization, such as public social networks? What structure can be derived from non-traditional data sources (documents, Web logs, video streams, etc.) to make storage, analysis, and ultimately decision-making easier? How can non-traditional unstructured data be integrated with data stored in traditional transactional systems? How can decision-makers comprehend the results of analyzing so much data quickly enough to act? What data governance is appropriate when analysis is distributed, needs change and data definitions and schemas evolve over time? 14
15 Bringing Big into the current Business Ecosystem (2) What architectures and algorithms can be used to decompose problems and data for rapid execution in parallel environments? What levels of availability and reliability are possible in mission-critical applications, when data volumes are so large? Is specialized hardware required for a particular need, or can low-cost commodity hardware be leveraged to scale processing? Given the specialized nature of processing needed, is cloud computing an appropriate platform choice, and if so, what variant of cloud computing (public, private, hybrid) is needed? How can security and privacy concerns be factored into the design of a Big environment to reduce vulnerability to external and internal threats? How are regulations around audit trails and data destruction to be interpreted in a Big environment? What intellectual property, licensing, and data protection considerations apply when Big environments are distributed across organizational and national boundaries? How can current IT skill sets best be leveraged in evolving the infrastructure to include Big? 15
16 Big Analytic Skill Sets The drive to find and employ new skills sets comes with the need to manage rapidly increasing quantities of data and the desire to extract valuable insights from it. Title Skill Set Business Area of Expertise Business Need Analyst Architect ( Scientist) Engineer (Research Analyst / R&D Specialist) BI Professionals (incl. Directors and Specialists) Other (Marketers, Consultants, Statisticians, Governors, Risk Managers, etc.) Other??? Provide design and execution capabilities for the collection and analysis of data. Provide oversight and direction for monitoring and implementing the principles governing the design and evolution of systems including the data assets, components, relationships, and the fundamental organization of systems. Provide expertise on the latest software engineering tools, oversees the construction of precise and largescale data sets, and performs database research to recommend ways to improve the quality of data. Provide strategic design and implementation of BI software and systems, which include database and data warehouse integration. Provide implementation support for new enterprise systems and applications. General operational workforce to supplement the business needs around data. Some additional skills sets provided by this group are planning data collection, data types and sizes, and identifying relationships and trends in data and factors that could affect the results of research. Other skills sets required to augment the increased workforce? (Ex: HR?) collection System Design Policy Guidance Software Engineering Tools base Research Quality Systems Applications Life Cycle Development Analyze and interpret statistical data Adapt statistical methods Design research projects??? 16
17 There is a point of view that Virtually every industry will be transformed by analytics and data The transformation will require hard and soft capabilities Ultimately it s about making better decisions This is not business as usual it s an historic opportunity to transform your business! 17
18 Questions to Consider There is a claim that 90% of all data has been produced in the past two years. Is this nonsense or do you see data sources increasing exponentially at this rate? Are there new types of data, outside of the GL and other structured data, that you are being asked to capture for analysis? Overall, is the business asking you to provide detailed and huge data volumes ready for analysis that can produce significant ROI? What are the hot areas? Are these requests outside of your current system capabilities? 18
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Sweet Buttered Carrots
Remember my friend's husband, that makes this amazing cauliflower? Well, he also made the most amazing carrots I've ever tasted. I'm normally not a fan of cooked carrots. I can eat them, but I don't love them. Until now. It's amazing how something so simple as a carrot can turn into such a fabulously tasty side dish! Cooking them with the butter really brings out the natural sweetness of the carrots- no sugar needed. My boys scarfed down the entire dish of carrots and were begging for more. In fact, I only served the cauliflower and carrots for dinner and we were all so full we had to go for a walk afterwards. Who knew veggies could be so satisfying and filling?
Carrots, grated
Small onion finely sliced
Butter, 2+ tablespoons
Salt & Pepper
If you grate the carrots and slice the onions by hand they will look much better as far as presentation and you'll feel more like a real chef, but I'm kind of lazy, so I cheated and used the food processor.
I used 4 carrots, one small onion (the size of a golf ball) and grated them both in the food processor. Next, saute butter in a saucepan over medium heat, I used about 3 tablespoons. The butter really adds the flavor here, so don't scrimp. I start with about two tablespoons, add the carrots and as they cook if they start to dry out I add more butter. You want them to be really moist. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and cover. Continue cooking covered until carrots are tender, 5 to 10 minutes.
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Alan Dumond of aestheticsbodymod.com shows off his fresh super-cool scarification design of three lines near his left eye. The blue dot tattoo surrounded by these lines appears like a shooting star.
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Big Bang Theory
Great, witty, smart, and consistantly funny. We're working our way through Season 1 and we have not been disappointed.
Project Runway Season 5
I've always loved this show, and is one of my guilty pleasures. This show, along with Top Chef, is consistantly entertaining and creative. I love seeing what twists and wrenches the producers throw at the contestants. And, as Tim Gunn says, "Make it work."
The Ultimate Fighter Series
I've just finished season 8 (I think) and am currently working my way through Season 2. While I'm more of a lover and not a fighter, I love seeing these men compete in the octagon. I love the mixture of martial arts, wrestling, kick boxing, boxing, and jui jitsu. Great show.
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Modern Family
I've thoroughly enjoyed this show. It is a nice return of the situational comedy. The characters are great, especially the "traditional" dad Phil. I love how he fails at trying to be hip. And the gay couple, Mitchell and Cameron, have such great banter back and forth. Their trip to the Sams Club knockoff was hilarious. This is a show I hope sticks around for a couple more seasons.
Shark Tank
The Denver Broncos
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Zombie by The Cranberries
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Two Princes by Spin Doctors
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President Obama's Justice Department's decision to not prosecute medical marijuana users and distributors when they follow state laws that allow its use. I hope this nod toward federalism continues.
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The ongoing disproportionate burden of HIV/AIDS borne by gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States as well as around the world was the topic of a number of sessions and posters at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections Exit Disclaimer in Atlanta this week.
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Bozeman beats Helena on Thursday to put Americans in driver's seat
February 27, 2015
Bozeman goalie Denijs Romanovskis made 30 saves to lead Bozeman over Helena on Thursday.
Helena 2 @ Bozeman 4
- The Helena Bighorns tried their best to erase a three-goal deficit, but the Bozeman Icedogs would not be denied the victory and hung on to win, 4-2. The win put the Great Falls Americans in the driver's seat for the Frontier Division title, needing just one more win to do so.
Bozeman took a 4-1 lead during the third period, only to have Helena storm back on a Brandt Miller goal 18:44 into the third period to pull to two goals down.
Steven Nisbet was all over the ice for the Icedogs, as he tallied two goals and one assist in the win. Nisbet scored the first of his two goals on the power play at 4:16 into the second period to make the score 1-1. Bozeman had gotten the advantage when the Bighorns' Cody Vanthournout was sent off for head contact. Kegan Couture picked up the assist. Nisbet's next tally on the power play made the score 2-1 Bozeman with 14:47 left in the second period. A cross checking penalty on Jay Forbes had put the Icedogs on the power play. Gunnar Mogck provided the assist.
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May - My boyfriend of 13 months became my fiance, as he popped the question at dinner with some of our friends. This was a complete surprise! We went to mall once to look at rings a few months prior, but I had no idea that he was looking behind the scenes for what turned out to be the ring of my dreams...a pear shaped halo!
June - I went into full wedding "bridezilla" mode. Well, maybe not. I am probably one of the easiest brides-to-be on the planet! We (meaning I) quickly decided that we (meaning I) wanted a destination wedding. I chose Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and paid the deposit for our March, 2013 wedding. DONE! Our wedding is 9 months away.
July - I changed my mind. Now the wedding will be in the Riviera Maya, Mexico in June, 2013. Not only will it be a straight flight, but also much more cost effetive. A friend suggested a wonderful a travel agent and I quickly made arrangements and cancelled the original plans. I also went to a Bridal Extravaganza and got some great ideas! In addition, we had our engagment party in conjunction with my 38th birthday party. This was the month that I packed up my life, my son and our belongings in Sugar Land, TX to move and start a new one in Fresno, TX. New beginnings...Our wedding is now 11 months away. What was I thinking initially????
August - Not only did I move out of my house into my fiance's house, but my son also started Kindergarten...at my school! Talk about A LOT going on this month! We managed to take our engagement photos as well. Things are moving right along. Our wedding is 10 months away now.
September - So...I moved everything out of my house EXCEPT for the things in my scrap spot. In my mind, this was the perfect opportunity to purge and organize and purge and purge. I spent a lot of time doing just that. Purging. I was also able to get our Save the Dates created and sent out! Our wedding is 9 months away at this point.
October - This month was a complete blur! With the exception of Halloween, I can't even tell you what consumed my time in October. I didn't capture as many cute pictures for Halloween. We traded in our typically jam packed full itenarary of Fall events for a quiet dinner at Chipotle and Trick or Treating around the neighborhood with friends. By the way...our wedding is now 8 months away. WOAH!
Which brings up to now...today...November 5, 2013. I am in the process of totally revamping my scrapbook spot in my new home. My fiance has totally cleared out his gameroom to allow me to have the entire area to make my own. The challenge for this month will be to find an organization system that works for everything I have, and find the perfect table for the center of the room. I've been scouring Craig's List to find the perfect items. The REALEST of real challenge will be to keep everything nice and tidy as the gameroom is the first thing you walk by when you enter our home. YIKES!
I've started working on the cutest Back to School mini album and have set out pictures to do a few layouts. I don't want to get too far behind, especially with Thanksgiving and Christmas right around the corner!
Though our wedding is 7 months away, I am happy that I chose a destination wedding that requires little planning on my part! Next month I am ordering my dress and sending out the formal invitations which I have decided to make myself! When people ask me about wedding plans, I am truthful when I answer that they are done...well, sort of.
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