Company Overview

Big Data PartnershipTaking you on your Big Data journey

Big Data Partnership is a leading Big Data specialist solution provider. We are based in the UK, with an international client-base. We offer those clients a combination of Consulting, Implementation, Training and Support Services to help them unlock the value in complex data. Our team includes industry experts and thought leaders in all the major Big Data technologies. Big Data Partnership has the knowledge and experience necessary to Discover, Develop & Deliver scalable, reliable Big Data solutions that drive high-impact results for our clients.

Industry analysts consistently predict dizzying growth rates for Big Data and analytics spend(i), and new sources of available data to exploit are growing even more rapidly(ii). This presents major opportunities - and challenges - to organizations of all sizes, and the need to respond has never been greater as the gap opens between successful adopters of Big Data technology and laggards(iii).

In response to all this change, the landscape of Big Data technologies evolves and step-changes almost as rapidly. To meet the Big Data challenge, organizations need to have deep understanding at their fingertips, of emerging technologies and how they are applied to real-world use cases. Quality of organizational understanding is a major factor in an enterprise’s ability to create value from Big Data and to deal with tomorrow’s challenges today.

Successful Big Data solutions emerge only as a result of expert navigation through the discovery, development and delivery stages of an organization’s Big Data journey. Sustained success then depends on the skills to maintain, grow and support those solutions. Big Data Partnership’s full lifecycle offering allows us to help our clients as they:

+ Discover the strategic potential Big Data value,

+ Develop proof of the ROI of Big Data investments,

+ Deliver enterprise-hardened solutions to realise that return.

Our consultants are vendor-certified on many technologies and have worked extensively and successfully with many Big Data platforms and toolsets, including all the major Apache Hadoop distributions, Elasticsearch, Apache Spark, Apache Storm, Apache Cassandra, Couchbase and other NoSQL platforms.

Our Support and Training capabilities allow us to continue to add value as organizations take control of their growing Big Data portfolio.

“Big Data Partnership’s breadth of knowledge of Big Data technologies made them an obvious choice along with the extensive real-world experience of their consultants. The latter is critical, we need to know what works in practice rather than in a white paper.” Jamie Turner, CTO of Postcode Anywhere

References:(i) http://www.forbes.com/sites/ louiscolumbus/2014/06/24/roundup- of-analytics-big-data-business-intelligence- forecasts-and-market-estimates-2014/

(ii) http://wikibon.org/blog/unstructured-data/

(iii) http://www.bain.com/publications/ articles/big_data_the_organizational_ challenge.aspx

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Use cases

Media: Reducing churn and improving fraud detection, utilising Big Data tools and data science techniques for a global media powerhouse.

Energy & Utilities: Developed a ‘data lake’ platform combining new data sources including smart meter with existing data to gain new insights at lower costs.

Retail: Redesigning data architecture to gain a better understanding of the customer and their interaction.

Gaming: Improvements to the architecture enabling growth, better resource utilisation and cost savings in tools.

Betting: Increasing customer loyalty and retention models in ways which have never been possible with Data Science and Predictive Modelling.

Discover

Train Support

Develop Deliver

We have worked in a variety of vertical sectors, with clients including:

+ WorldPay

+ Sky

+ Global Tier-One Investment Bank

+ CERN

+ WGSN

+ Postcode Anywhere

+ UK’s Largest Online Gaming / Betting Operator

+ UK Government

+ Large Retail Insurance Firm

+ Global Pharmaceutical

+ Enterprise Utility Provider

+ European Energy Commodity Trading House

Big Data Partnership believes that close collaboration with clients is the most effective way to produce meaningful results and return on investment (ROI). Big Data Partnership consultants have the experience and expertise required to support customers through all phases of a Big Data project. And we provide a full range of service offerings to help our clients at whatever stage they are at in their Big Data journey.

Big Data Partnership works hard to build and maintain partnerships with the vendors of leading and emerging Big Data technologies. This gives us the up-to-date skills and effective relationships necessary to deliver complex solutions, that span multiple, complementary technologies. Partners include:

+ Hortonworks

+ MapR

+ Platfora

+ Databricks

+ Elastic

+ WANdisco

+ Amazon Web Services

+ Concurrent

+ IBM (InfoSphere)

+ SkyScape

Finance: Rebuilding platforms to overcome volume and velocity challenges. Creating two-year Big Data strategy aligned with business objectives to maximise opportunities and new business.

Clients

Capabilities

Partners

Big Data Partnership consultants have deep expertise in the latest emerging Big Data technologies and platforms. These include (but not limited to):

+ Apache Hadoop Ecosystem including:

+ YARN

+ MapReduce

+ HDFS

+ Hive

+ Pig

+ HCatalog

+ Ambari

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Technologies

+ Oozie

+ Falcon

+ Knox

+ Ranger

+ Atlas

+ Sqoop

+ Apache HBase

+ Flume

+ Apache Cassandra

+ Apache Spark

+ Apache Kafka

+ Apache Mahout

+ Lucene

+ Apache Solr

+ Elasticsearch

+ Storm

As organizations move into the new age of Big Data and Analytics, seeking to become masters of their ever-increasing sources of data, they can often struggle to identify where to start. It is by no means apparent where, in large and complex corporate data architectures, Big Data technologies and techniques can best be used.

Big Data Partnership helps organizations to identify the most valuable opportunities to exploit Big Data. We do this in short, intensive workshop engagements. These are typically 2-5 days long and tailored for each client’s specific needs and requirements. In the workshops we seek to discover where Big Data and analytics would drive richer insight, cut costs and provide the best ROI.

We also explore and explain the landscape of technologies that might be used to deliver these gains. Our consultants provide knowledge, experience and assistance with:

+ Defining Big Data strategy

+ Identifying Use Cases where Big Data analytics would drive insight and business value

+ Designing applications and architecture

+ Providing education on tools &

technologies available.

Even with solid use cases and a good understanding of where Big Data technologies and techniques can help, transformational change often requires a leap of faith to commit the necessary investment. We believe it is more appropriate to provide early returns from a smaller initial investment.

To achieve this, we recommend taking a single use case and developing a Proof of Concept to establish the expected benefit to the organization and to validate the chosen technology.

This level of engagement typically lasts a month and can help businesses make progress towards effectively exploiting Big Data and provides tangible evidence of the expected ROI. Combining Engineering & Data Science, our consultants work with your team to:

+ Review existing hardware requirements (including cloud vs. on-premise)

+ Design pilot systems using the most appropriate Big Data technologies

+ Install and configure platforms and the relevant tools to integrate best-practice for effective performance

+ Develop well-scoped functionality that will showcase the value of Big Data with your initial data set and processes

+ Apply data science & machine learning techniques to drive real- world insight and value.

Big Data Partnership helps enterprises to fully realize their Big Data vision by offering fixed-price and day-based consultancy to deliver full-lifecycle, analytics projects.

We understand that each organization has different needs, so we tailor our approach specifically to each client. Effective Big Data is not about pre-determined templates for business intelligence; it is about meaningful analysis and processing of information - in a way that is most relevant.

We have highly skilled Data Scientists as well as deep-rooted Big Data engineers who will help you deliver your implementations and ensure the success of your Big Data projects. Delivery engagements typically last a minimum of four weeks and may consist of the following and other activities:

+ Reviewing existing infrastructure including hardware, software and data flows

+ Installing & configuring production- grade environments optimised and tuned for enterprise use

+ Optimising platform, architecture, and team structure for production

+ Driving and embedding technological, organizational and cultural change.

Discover Develop Deliver

Big Data Partnership has a long-established track record of providing public classroom training and client-specific on-site training. We are certified to deliver courses for a number of our technology partners, including Hortonworks, MapR, Databricks, and Concurrent in the UK and EMEA. Our training capability extends across all the technologies our consultants use to design and deliver solutions.

We regularly rotate consulting team members into the delivery of training so that students get the added value of an active practitioner whilst they get to grips with the platform they are studying. The consultants then take their teaching experience back on-site.

Big Data technologies are radically changing the way enterprises gain insight and competitive advantage. The pace of change is rapid, so the technologies themselves are just entering into the mainstream. This represents a significant challenge to operations teams, who lack the experience to manage newly-deployed solutions effectively.

To help our clients meet that challenge, Big Data Partnership complements our capabilities in development and training with support services. We deliver SLA-backed support for key technologies used to deploy solutions. Our clients exploit this capability to reduce the risk that comes with all complex technologies. IT teams need to be adding value for their organizations; they are best served by delegating support of base technology to specialists. And the most appropriate specialists are those who also understand how the technologies are being used in the client environment.

Big Data Partnership is a unique organization that combines breadth of coverage and depth of knowledge. We can do this because we are focused on just one problem space – Big Data. It is a problem space that is the subject of an enormous amount of hype, but that is because it is a space that offers tremendous opportunities for successful adopters. Our clients value our ability to cut through the hype and vendor FUD to bring sound advice, effective implementation and to support them through the full lifecycle.

To help optimize technology investments, Big Data Partnership offers complete solutions that include professional services, technical support, and training. For more information, contact sales@bigdatapartnership.com or visit our website.

Training Support

Summary

Maximizing Investments

Big Data Strategy

Systems Integration

Use Case Discovery

Technical Review

Data Visualization

Business Case

Data Science

Proof of Concept

Training & Certification

Support

Discover Develop, Deliver,Train & Support

Big Data Partnership helps organisations across all industries become more data driven through data science and the adoption of new generation big data technologies, rapidly and at low risk. We help you Discover why and how to become data driven; we work with you to Develop and prove the value of this approach; we Deliver cost-effective solutions which exploit faster and more scalable technology. We reduce risk by Training your staff in the necessary new skills and by providing Support. For more information, visit www.bigdatapartnership.com or email info@bigdatapartnership.com.

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