Our Customers at Pivotal Recognize the Importance of Bridging Traditional Data Warehousing into Next Generation Platform

Cross posted from my blog at Pivotal POV:

Recently Gartner published the report, “Gartner Critical Capabilities for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems” that shares survey results of customers from a variety of Data Warehouse solution vendors.  The report ranks vendors in 4 categories of use cases in the Data Warehouse market: “Traditional Data Warehouse”, “Operational Data Warehouse”, “Logical Data Warehouse”, and “Context Independent Data Warehouse.”

Based on existing customer implementations and their experiences with data warehouse DBMS products, the report scored Pivotal in the top 2 out of 16 vendors in two use cases: “Traditional Data Warehouse” and “Logical Data Warehouse”.  In a third use case, “Context Independent Data Warehouse”, Pivotal scored in the top 3 relative to the 15 other vendors.

In the report, Gartner writes “the adoption rate for modern use cases (such as the logical data warehouse and the context independent warehouse) is increasing year over year by more than 50%—but the net percentage for the context independent and logical data warehouse combined remains below 8% of the total market.”

Modern Data Warehouse Use Cases Generate Trillions in Value

Many of Pivotal’s big data analytics customers started out as Greenplum Databasecustomers. These customers are both well established in traditional data warehousing techniques and take advantage of modern data warehousing scenarios supported by Greenplum Database’s advanced analytics capabilities, and other products of Pivotal Big Data Suite: Pivotal HAWQ and Pivotal HD.

Industry leaders like General Electric are using Pivotal Big Data Suite to create new solutions that cut weeks of analysis time that would be required using traditional data warehouse approaches. For example, a process for refining insightful analytics from sensor data streams generated by industrial machinery was compressed from 30 daysto just 20 minutes.

Other companies are using these approaches to improve customer retention, target advertising, detect anomalies, improve asset utilization and more. The combined potential benefit of these opportunities is staggering. GE alone predicts its solutions will boost GDP by $10-15 trillion in the next 20 years by saving labor costs and improving energy efficiency.

Clamoring for Innovation Ideas Using SAP HANA at HANA 2014

Cross posted at the blog at SAPHANA.com…

As I leave the HANA 2014 conference in Orlando this week, I am simply impressed with the enthusiasm I felt from a room full of enterprise architects looking for ways to support innovation for their companies with SAP HANA.

When I was asked to present at SAP Insider’s HANA 2014 Conference in Orlando about business innovation as it relates to SAP HANA, one of my favorite topics, I jumped at the opportunity.  I was pleasantly surprised to find a room full of eager attendees waiting for me at my 8:30AM session this morning.

I always start by asking a few questions to get to know my audience. At HANA 2014 for both my sessions the audience responded as follows to my unscientific poll:

•          50% work for SAP customers
•          50% are consultants serving SAP customers

•          25% are working for customers that already have or are actively considering  purchasing SAP HANA

•          Less than 25% were business analysts concerned with software requirements
•          75% said they are Enterprise Architects
•          A smattering, around 5%, said they are developers

As I said, the poll was unscientific and audience members did answer multiple times in the poll choices.

You can get an idea of the perspective and interest of the people attending a session about building innovative custom applications on SAP HANA. They were not developers, but they were very interested in hearing about how they could support developers in creating innovative applications on SAP HANA.

While it’s not my intention to recreate my session in blog form, I have some interesting takeaways for myself as a result of interactions with the attendees in my sessions.  Check out the slides of my presentation on  Slideshare.

 

1.  When it comes to fostering a “culture of invention” 90% of my attendees companies appear not to partake in more forward looking approaches such as holding company Hackathons or cross functional innovation days with employees. Nor do many of them partake in crowd sourcing programs such as Kaggle, or check out SAP’s crowd sourcing program for SAP HANA customers: SAP Idea Incubator.

2.  Audience members appreciated my “3 Questions to know if you have a SAP HANA Application” slide. Many of their questions were related to geospatial data capabilities of SAP HANA and predictive analytics functionality.

 

 

[SOURCE: © SAP, used with permission] Three questions for determining if your custom application might be suitable for developing on SAP HANA.