Small Data Group

Just as embedded processors (and cheap memory) sparked a new generation of smart systems and consumer devices like the smartphone, embedded BI and analytics – enabled by advances in big and small data processing, open source projects like BIRT and Hadoop, and rich APIs – has the potential to change the face of many categories of applications (and devices).

Think hyper personalized and portable customer experiences, or smarter trading grids that anticipate disruptions or automatically seek out the best deal. Or new views into markets or business operations that reveal previously unseen relationships or potential innovations.

Meanwhile we are all looking to get closer to our customers, by gaining a true 360 degree view of what they want and how they are interacting with us and each other. This is where some of the new Analytics-as-a-Service (“AaaS”) offerings like Watson Analytics and the recently launched OpenText Big Data Analytics in the Cloud fits in. Combining advanced and predictive analytics, delivered as an easy to use managed cloud offering, AaaS aims to bring the power of big data to everyday business users, creating one view of their customer base, with a super-fast dedicated analytics data base and pre-built algorithms for handling the most common marketing and operational analyses.

The future of analytics is clearly about these types of tools that serve the growing population of “citizen data scientists.” It’s also about delivering insights from new data sources (think IoT) to users on their device of choice like smartphones, tablets or even smart watches. And building on a foundation of good information design (as detailed by Edward Tufte), blending the right unstructured and structured content, and applying the latest digital engagement models and approaches (like those from my friend and former colleague Esteban Kolsky).

Discover more in Vegas at Enterprise World

All of these scenarios will be front and center in the Analytics track at the upcoming Enterprise World 2015 event in Las Vegas in early November. I’ll be there with a cast of 1000’s delivering a couple keynote addresses as well as parts of several breakouts and demos looking at the role of big and small data, analytics and digital asset management, and helping to premiere our latest IoT demo (hint: it includes a network of Raspberry Pi-based sensors, an MQTT broker, and visuals powered by the OpenText iHub).

Learn more about the event and our sessions by clicking here.