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Rise of the Chief Data officerHandling Big data is not a child’s play

Raj BalaChief technology Officer, Cognizant

THERE’S A BIG DATA EXPLOSION….

Unit of measurement – SI Units

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Big Data Landscape (ver 2.0)

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Big Data Infrastructure

Hadoop based services and tools

Cloud based IaaS Services

(Compute/storage etc.,)

Cluster computing & MPP

In-Memory Computing (BigMemory….)

Data Analytics Tools

Various databases (No Sql, Graph DBs..)

Monitoring and management tools

Taxonomies/Search/semantics tools

Video/audio/image analytics tools

Security tools

Collaboration tools ……..

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IT loosing control of software, hardware or data, even in the physical sense.

• Sales and marketing departments can use salesforce.com without reference to IT

• Corporate communications avails itself of social media channels

• Employees bring their own devices.

• System Management is very hard because of connectivity, instrumentation, data collection and analytics requirements

• Most CIOs do not manage information. In fact, no one does; CIOs manage Information systems..

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Duties of Chief Data Officers

The CDO is responsible for A. Enterprise-wide governance and control on informationB. Utilization of information as an asset:

Governance & control:• Cataloging and organizing information assets• Developing a strategy for information — particularly new kinds of

information• Creating standards (including "master data" management)• Reducing data duplication and waste across the enterprise• Sourcing needed data from outside the enterprise

Utilization:• Creating a commercial policy regarding data use and security need• Finding new value in existing data assets (analytics)• Monetizing information — for example, by selling it as a service

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Some Large enterprises that have a CDO todayFinancial Services■ Clydesdale Bank■ Bank of America■ Citigroup■ Capital One■ J.P. Morgan■ NYSE Euronext■ American International Group (AIG)■ TD Ameritrade■ Royal Bank of Scotland Group■ Fannie Mae■ HSBC (hiring in late 2012)

Information Services and Technology■ Boa Vista Serviços■ Yahoo■ Groupon■ Alibaba Group■ Bango

Public Sector■ U.S. Army■ Federal Communications Commission■ City of Philadelphia■ City of Chicago■ City of San Francisco (hiring in late 2012)