I find it exciting to write case studies or customer stories. Underlying every such story, you’ll find a coming-of-age angle; a story of transformation. There is some drama as someone is trying to find a solution to a problem. And a current of excitement as the solution helps them achieve something more than what they … Continue reading FORBES: How Analytics Automation From Alteryx Helped Stanley Black & Decker Empower Employees

Here is a B2B story on how companies such as Medtronic and IBM are fostering innovation. This is a story that I enjoyed working on, talking to leaders in the industry. Medtronic and IBM share how they are pioneering disruptive solutions in Asia to access new customer bases and a faster impact in the region. … Continue reading Innovation in Singapore

Over the past 12 years, Amazon’s cloud ecosystem has experienced astounding growth. It’s estimated that by 2020, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will register revenues of $44 billion, twice the combined revenue of its two key cloud competitors: Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. AWS Redshift is a major driver of that growth. One of Amazon’s flagship … Continue reading What is Amazon Redshift?

Data can be a double-edged sword. While the increase in availability of data makes it possible to make more effective business decisions, wading through a data lake is a huge pain point for technologists and analysts alike. This is where metadata can be a lifesaver. Metadata is simply data about data. It is information that … Continue reading What is Metadata?

Analytics are increasingly driving business decisions—and in the wake of the pandemic, companies that embed data-driven digital transformation into their organizational cultures will be leaders, pulling ahead despite a challenging business environment. How can organizations scale their data-driven decision-making this year? These three recent breakthroughs in analytics and data science are driving true organizational transformation. … Continue reading Forbes: Three Analytics Breakthroughs That Will Define Business In 2021

I sat with Suresh Vittal, the CPO of Alteryx, to talk about five data analytics trends in 2021. A piece that I wrote for forbes.com. The days when the person with the most experience in the room made the big decisions are gone. Today it’s data, and not instinct, that drives most business decisions.  Continue … Continue reading FORBES: 5 Leading Data Analytics Trends You Should Know About

A story of data fragmentation and how to tackle it. Loved working on this story because it was keeping with the current times. Interviewing Amit Walia, CEO of Informatica, to get key insights on this topic was a power-packed experience. Also, telling a powerful story through fewer words—a key lesson for me in writing this. … Continue reading FORBES: Ending the Data Fragmentation Age

The world of sports is not purely about adrenaline, fitness, and talent. It is also about brains, data, and analytics. Just a couple of decades ago, most sporting decisions were driven by the gut, or on the basis of a coach or agent’s personal evaluation. Much of this has changed today with instinct being supported … Continue reading Data Analytics in Gaming

In recent years, training has achieved center stage in corporate strategy. In 2015, US spending on corporate training grew by 14.2% to over $70.6 billion . Organizations understand that even though it’s discretionary, investments in training is the foundation of building a talented workforce. Companies who spend on Learning and Development (L&D) can compete more … Continue reading Intelligent Training Management System: The Gateway to Win Over Competition

What do you do when you are feeling rather unwell and are experiencing unfamiliar symptoms? I’m guessing the answer is: Google your symptoms or ask your social network for advice. For many of us today, the social media has become the go-to place for self-diagnosing health issues, gathering feedback on the efficacy of medicines, figuring … Continue reading Social Media for Pharma Companies: Just What the Doctor Ordered

If you think that the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart manufacturing are just buzzwords, it is time to think again. In a survey an overwhelming 97% agreed that IoT has the potential to make the production floor smarter. There was also consensus that it was the right time for manufacturing firms to invest in … Continue reading IoT in manufacturing

In today’s information age, analytics is one of the most talked about topics in IT. In fact, Gartner voted analytics as the leading technology accelerant for 20151. IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) in particular stands out with its ability to drive transformation in an organization. ITOA’s impact is far-reaching from performance stability to preemptive monitoring, seamless … Continue reading ITOA: The perfect poster child for transforming IT

The digital universe is doubling in size every year, and is expected to reach 44 trillion gigabytes by 2020. Up to 90 percent of that data is unstructured or semi-structured, which presents a two-fold challenge: find a way to store all this data and maintain the capacity to process it quickly. This is where a … Continue reading What is a data lake?

Hadoop is an open source, Java based framework used for storing and processing big data. The data is stored on inexpensive commodity servers that run as clusters. Its distributed file system enables concurrent processing and fault tolerance. Developed by Doug Cutting and Michael J. Cafarella, Hadoop uses the MapReduce programming model for faster storage and … Continue reading What is Hadoop?

In today’s data-driven market, algorithms and applications are collecting data 24/7 about people, processes, systems, and organizations, resulting in huge volumes of data. The challenge, though, is how to process this massive amount of data with speed and efficiency, and without sacrificing meaningful insights. This is where the MapReduce programming model comes to rescue. Initially … Continue reading What is MapReduce?

Definition of PowerShell PowerShell is the shell framework developed by Microsoft for administration tasks such as configuration management and automation of repetitive jobs. The term ‘PowerShell’ refers to both – the shell used to execute commands and the scripting language that goes along with the framework. The scripting aspect of it is similar to Perl … Continue reading What is PowerShell?