Hadoop Enabler of a Data Driven Strategy

Strata Hadoop – June 2016 Abed Ajraou – Director of Data & Insights @First Utility

First Utility – Putting customers in control; saving them money

Cheaper tariffs Great service More knowledge

First Utility & Hadoop

Data - the new power Internal Data

Allow us to deliver a

better service for our

customers

Allow us to optimise the

business and give the

better price to our

customers

Allow us to give more

knowledge to our

customers

The MPP DWH reach a maturity level

Source: TechRadar™: BigData, Q1 2016 by Forrester

Top issues of DWH modernisation

Source: TDWI Data Warehouse Modernization in the Age of Big Data Analytics

Data & Insights team – How Hadoop help us to resolve our challenges

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Industry

Data Individual

Transaction-Level Data Internal Data

Stored Procedures Hue – Impala SQL Query

R project Scala Sample Code

New Role like

Hadoop

Administrator

& Story Teller

Data & Insights

Team

Business

Department

Business

Department

Business

Department

Data Business

Partners

Data Steward

& Owner

Data Driven Company – Flipping to the new way to consume data

Business Queries Ask a business question

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IT Service Preparing the answer of

the requirements

Traditional way to get the data

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Business Queries Can use the data to

answer their own question

and refine their query 2

Data & Insights Preparing a scalable Data

Platform to allow the usage

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New way to consume the data

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