Data – the humus for your innovation

A great turnout and interactions at the Q&A sessions confirmed that we had hit the nail on the head with the topic: In an increasingly connected world with exponentially growing amounts of data, all companies, regardless of their industry, face the same challenge: To develop the existing business models competitively based on a suitable data strategy. Intelligent data management offers enormous opportunities for the future of any company.

Data is the new humus – new technologies, processes, and ideas grow. It is an essential production factor that keeps you competitive, as emphasized by our speakers from well-known companies. They shared their experiences and valuable insights for intelligent solutions with the audience:

• Scott Wiggins shared his 4-step approach of his data journey at Andritz. They started with an ideation process as part of Nagarro's innovation toolkit. A newly developed datathon was organized to evaluate the existing data. This resulted in a first proof-of-concept, which eventually led to the successful implementation of a real data-lake project.
• Ewald Koller took us along his data-journey from (1) realize Postbus was sitting on an enormous data heap from their buses, to (2) data-analysis looking for anomalies in bus performance to (3) gain insights to enable predictive bus maintenance. And the journey goes on.
• Maximillian Schwarzmaier shared his experience on working with Nagarro replacing barcode scanner in the warehouse through Smart Glass with a 30% efficiency gain and high user acceptance overcoming obstacles on his data-journey.
• Anurag Sahay explained the three most important entry points into Big Data projects and gave his view on the relevance of Data Warehouses versus Data Lakes in the future.
• Live Demos showed how tons of data can be used in combination with analytics, data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning to make data profitable.