Productizing Big Data to create business value

The evolution of sensors, smart phones, medical devices, and wearables all collecting and uploading information in real-time has led to the rapid accumulation of health-related data, or Big Data. The sheer volume, velocity, and variety of the data being collected poses challenges for harnessing and ensuring its validity to benefit both the macro, population-level health and the micro, evidence-based precision medicine. Join Dr. Eric Louie, Chief Medical Officer, and Jessica Baker, Associate, as they discuss changes in healthcare data over time and how to overcome human biases, curate meaningful data sets, and better inform actionable decisions in the healthcare setting.

The global spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the economic impact that followed has prompted many businesses to furlough the workforce or migrate from the traditional office to remote-working environments. The volatile landscape has created incremental risks, especially for organizations heavily relying on IT Sec/Ops teams to monitor security and privacy and enforce regulatory compliance.

Data modernization, especially through cloud migration, is critical to realizing value from today’s fast, diverse, and high-volume data. Modernization is about overhauling legacy data management and practices that hold organizations back from achieving business goals, improving resilience, and reducing risk. However, often overlooked in the rush to develop new applications and migrate data is modernizing data governance. Poor attention to data governance will bake problems into overall modernization efforts that become hard to correct, increase risks, and ultimately reduce the value of data.

As organizations move into the cloud, the choices for handling high-scale data for analytical use are flourishing and evolving. How do we address BI/analytics, data science, security/application monitoring, and log data management workloads? Do we really need potentially overlapping warehouse, data lake, and security and observability capabilities on top of object storage, or can an evolved data lake or emerging “lakehouse” platform do it all? Join Doug Henschen, VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research and Thomas Hazel, Chief Technology and Science Officer at ChaosSearch for a broad-ranging discussion on the challenges and strategy considerations that go into choosing the right platform.