Mark van Rijmenam Melbourne, Australia
March 26, 2014
Walmart Makes Big Data Part of Its DNA
Mark van Rijmenam Founder Datafloq
Big Data Strategist International Keynote speaker
Author Think Bigger
There was 5 Exabytes of information created between
the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much
information is now created every 2 days and the
Pace is Increasing
100 times back and forth
Accelerated Change is the only Constant
WalmartwasdoingBigDatabeforeitwascalledBigData1987:thelargestprivatesatellite
communica7onsystem
1990:Firstdatawarehouseprototypetostorehistoricalsalesdata
1990s:Walmartalreadyhas180Terabyteofdata
1980s:Op7mizingsupplychainwithdataandsta7s7cs
1996:LaunchofWalmart.com
2002:WalmartusestheInternetfordata
exchangewithsuppliers
WhatdoStrawberryPoptartsandhurricanes
haveincommon?
“Ourabilitytopulldatatogetherisunmatched.”
—WalmartU.S.CEOBillSimon,September2013
Walmart – the largest retailer in the world
Walmart averages a profit of AU$ 2 million - every hour
Walmart's net sales were AU$ 516 billion in 2012 – ¼ of Australia’s GDP
35 million people shop at Walmart - every day
The average Walmart Supercenter sells 140.000 individual items
Walmart opened between four and five new stores every week in 2012
90% of Americans live within 15 minutes of a Walmart
Walmart has 2.2 million employees – that’s more than the population of Brisbane
>1 million customer transactions every hour, creating 2.5 petabytes of data
Walmart reportedly has data over 145 million Americans – Petabytes of data
Walmart shares consumers’ online data with more than 50 third parties
In 2011 it bought Kosmix for reportedly AU$ 332 million & turned it into @WalmartLabs
Walmartwentonashoppingspree
Whataretheydoing?
1) TheSocialGenome2) ShopyCat3) SearchEnginePolaris4) Walmart.com&recommenda7ons5) Mobilesolu7ons
Walmart’sSocialMediaPresence
>34.500.000likesonFacebook
>800.000followersonTwiZerwithadozenchannels
>330.000followersonLinkedIn
~40.000followersonPinterest
>21.000followersonGoogle+
TheSocialGenome
Source:VintSoge7
TheSocialGenome
Source:VintSoge7
Shopycat:RecommendaGonsmadepersonal
• Builtinternallyfromscratchinjust10months
• Increaseconversionratesby10-15percent
• Usersdon’tonlygetresults,butareshowntopicpages
• Basedonseman7ctechnology
• Capableofqueryunderstandingandsynonymmining
TheSemanGcs
Reasoning
NaturalLanguageProcessing
Ontologysearch
Contextualanaly7cs
Walmart.come-commerceplaIorm
45millionmonthlyvisitors!
TrendingNow
ArichervisualbrowsingexperienceDiscoverandbuynewproductsReachingnewcustomersegments
200 million customers Global mobile sales to reach $ 700 billion
Source:@WalmartLabs
Opensourcetools
Hapi–Framework Mupd8–Server Lout–U7li7esJoi–U7li7es Flod–U7li7es Lumbar&Thorax-Web
“Wewanttoknowwhateveryproductintheworldis.Wewanttoknowwhoeverypersonintheworldis.Andwewanttohavetheabilitytoconnectthemtogetherin
transacGon.”
CEOGlobalE-commerce–NeilAshe
Thank you
@vanRijmenam
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