Bob BakerSenior Director, SAP Ariba
With host Andrew BrustMarket Strategy Advisor, Io-TahoeCEO, Blue Badge Insights
The state of the analytics union, with an industry veteran
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Speaker bios
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Bob Baker• Partner and channel marketing/operations specialist• Prior tours at Trifacta, Microsoft (BI, SQL Server)• At SAP, driving ISV ecosystem strategy and
execution
Andrew Brust• Covers Big Data and analytics for ZDNet• Strategy Advisor to Io-Tahoe• Data-focused tech career started in 1985
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Some stuff is “done”
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1. Data warehousing is a known thingThe problem has been solvedGet it built, provide access via BI tools
2. Data Lake technology is getting thereNo longer nascent: HadoopNot yet at full maturity but we’re moving toward itVendors advancing toward Enterprise-level solutions
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The stubborn next frontier
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The problem that isn’t solved
Self-service BI tools
won’t help
Insight from mass
unstructured data
AI, ML come into play There's no end-user SKU/toolset
to help
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• There's a whole set of use cases around unstructured data, especially when it's massive in scale, that aren’t “done”
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Use case: Retail data mashup
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What if you had weather reports well in advance?
Route inventory to those locales
Derive significant revenue as lone supplier
Insight = competitive advantage
Identify ordinarily warm climates that may be due for snow
This is the synergy intersection of OLTP, data warehouse, data lake and AISnow shovel inventory Special data
How can we sell snow shovels in ordinarily
warm climates?
Weather,supply chain,
operational systems,sensor/signal
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Market factors
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Shifts in incumbency
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Old WorldPlatforms were king
Installed base and licenses
Lock-in tough to beat
New WorldHyperscale clouds, data center
points of presence are the kingmakers
Successful applications run anywhere
Multi-cloud/hybrid is attempt to sidestep lock-in
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Center of gravity
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Everyone’s nodding towards the public cloud providers• “Hadoop distros, databases platforms are awesome, as
long as they run on my cloud”• SAP Cloud Platform running on AWS and Azure as well as
SAP data centers; beta on GCP.
It’s not so plug-and-play, yet• Customer maturity lacking?• Application integration provides the middle ground
between raw platform and ready-to-run software. Solution providers are critical.
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Thank you
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