The Internet of Things (IoT) and Analytics at The Edge
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to change everything by enabling
“smart” environments (homes, cities, hospitals, schools, stores, etc.)
and smart products (cars, trucks, airplanes, trains, wind turbines,
lawnmowers, etc.). I recently wrote about the importance of moving beyond
“connected” to “smart” in a blog titled “Internet of Things:
Connected Does Not Equal Smart”. The article discusses the importance of
moving beyond just collecting the data, to transitioning to leveraging this
new wealth of IoT data to improve the decisions that these smart environments
and products need to make: to help these environments and products to
self-monitor, self-diagnose and eventually, self-direct.
But one of the key concepts in enabling this transition from connected to
smart is the ability to perform “analytics at the ... (more)
I spend a lot of time helping organizations to “think like a data
scientist.” My book “Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data
Science” has several chapters devoted to helping business leaders to
embrace the power of data scientist thinking. My Big Data MBA class at the
University of San Francisco School of Management focuses on teaching
tomorrow’s business executives the power of analytics and data science to
optimize key business processes, uncover new monetization opportunities and
create a more compelling, engaging customer and channel engagement.
However in work... (more)
Industry after industry is under siege as companies embrace digital
transformation (DX) to disrupt existing business models and disintermediate
their competitor's customer relationships. But what do we mean by "Digital
Transformation"?
Digital Transformation
The coupling of granular, real-time data (e.g., smartphones, connected
devices, smart appliances, wearables, mobile commerce, video surveillance)
with modern technologies (e.g., cloud native apps, Big Data architectures,
hyper-converged technologies, artificial intelligence, blockchain) to enhance
products, processes, and bu... (more)
Special thanks for the help on this blog to the coolest, most hip group of
industry experts that I have ever met: the Pathfinders. The Pathfinders is an
elite forces group of master system engineers inside of Dell EMC who tackle
our customers’ most difficult and inspiring challenges. I am honored to be
part of that club!
Suppose an autonomous vehicle learns of a more efficient route and wants sell
this knowledge to other autonomous cars for a fee (using blockchain to handle
machine to machine transaction). Suppose the autonomous vehicle could start
to monetize itself; to self-f... (more)
[Opening Scene]: Billy Dean is pacing the office. He’s struggling to keep
his delivery trucks at full capacity and on the road. Random breakdowns,
unexpected employee absences, and unscheduled truck maintenance are impacting
bookings, revenues and ultimately customer satisfaction. He keeps hearing
from his business customers how they are leveraging data science to improve
their business operations. Billy Dean starts to wonder if data science can
help him. As he contemplates what data science can do for him, he slowly
drifts off to sleep, and visions of Data Science starts dancing... (more)
Bill Schmarzo, author of “Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business” and “Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science”, is responsible for setting strategy and defining the Big Data service offerings for Hitachi Vantara as CTO, IoT and Analytics.
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