Capgemini will use customer examples to show that Big Data is about the ability to analyze and act, using data from sensors, transactions, or interactions from inside as well as outside the organization, to solve tougher business problems, create more competitive advantage, and make more informed decisions in a tightly connected world.
Amerika – Douane – Paspoort controle – Heisenberg – Breaking Bad
Walter "Walt" Hartwell White Sr., also known by his clandestine pseudonym "Heisenberg", was a chemist and a former chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who, after being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, started manufacturing crystalmethamphetamine to both pay for his treatments and provide for his family in the event of his passing.
Werner Heisenberg was a German physicist and one of the key creators of quantum mechanics. In 1927 he published his uncertainty principle for which he is best known. This principle states: “It is impossible to determine accurately both the position and the velocity of a particle at the same instant.” This might require a short explanation for the physicist illiterates like me
Data at rest
The same seems to apply for many organizations today. They know where they are (or have been) but they do not know where they are going.
The main reason for this is that their (big) data is at rest. It is mostly inactive data that is stored physically in any digital form, for example a database or a datawarehouse.
It used primarily for historic reporting or analysis on mostly internal data. Although the quality is high (Datawarehouses for example are often associated with a high level of data quality and creation of the single version of the truth), the time-to-market is often low (batch oriented overnight architectures) and the value of the data is therefore relatively low.
Outside-In-telligence
Big Data has created a paradigm shift in the way we look at decision making. We see structured data coming from inside the organization (like ERP, POS) or unstructured data like sensors in machines or applications. But this is also the time where external data, from websites or social media, tells us much more about our own performance. Not with facts or dimensions from your Datawarehouse but with opinions on Twitter and likes on Facebook. This is the time where Facebook can predict when somebody is about to cheat or commit suicide, where Google can predict a flu outbreak or retailers can predict that your teenage daughter is pregnant. It is about bringing outside intelligence inside your organization.
OPEN DATA