13.Managing Hadoop Workflows in the Enterprise + Jumpstart your BigData Projects

We are pleased to invite you to the next meeting of Stockholm Hadoop User Group!

Two talks will be delivered:

• Managing Hadoop Workflows in the Enterprise

• Jumpstart your Big Data Projects!

Please find the details below!

*** PRESENTATION 1 ***

Title: Managing Hadoop Workflows in the Enterprise

Presenters: Amit Cohen, Joe Goldberg

Abstract:

No matter how real-time or streaming you think your Hadoop applications are or will be, batch workflows are as important in the Big Data landscape as they have been in “traditional” IT where industry analysts say batch accounts for almost 70% of all business processing.

Especially now, as Hadoop is going “mainstream” and is destined to make a big impact on IT and the Data Center, companies are looking for solutions that will help them develop and deploy their batch workflows faster, provide support for “traditional” applications and technologies like file transfer, ETL tools and even mainframes and help them deliver Big Data “services” that will be easy to manage for IT and easy to consume for business users.

Amit and Joe will discuss how a Hadoop-aware workload automation solution can accelerate creation of Big Data applications, simplify testing and deployment of such applications, enable organizations to better operate those applications to deliver superior service quality and provide organizations the flexibility to respond more rapidly to new Big Data demands.

Amit Cohen’s Bio:

Amit Cohen, joined the Control-M team in May, 2012, as a Sr. Product Manager. Amit holds 16 years of experience in the IT and Telecom management software solutions, filling product management, presale and system engineering positions. Prior to BMC, Amit was a Director product management at Alvarion, leading the Network Management solution, OSS Pre-Sale manager in Nortel, and Implementation team leader in Amdocs .

Amit holds an MBA from the University of Tel Aviv and a BSc in Industrial & Management Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University

Joe Goldberg’s bio:

Joe is an IT professional with over 35 years of experience in the design, development, implementation, sales and marketing of enterprise solutions to Global 2000 organizations. Joe has been active in helping BMC products leverage new technology to deliver market-leading solutions with a focus on Workload Automation.

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*** PRESENTATION 2 ***

Title: Jumpstart your Big Data Projects!

Presenter: Mathieu Lagrange

Abstract:

Data Scientists are finding that they spend up to 80% of their time to just access their data and only 20% for using data-science methods to get the value out of their data. In an study (IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology), a couple of data scientists expressed their frustration in preparing data for analysis: “I spend more than half my time integrating, cleansing, and transforming data without doing any actual analysis. Most of the time I’m lucky if I get to do any ‘analysis’ at all.”, and another data scientist explains that “most of the time once you transform the data … the insights can be scarily obvious.”

Learn how you can turn this relationship around and free up time to ask more and better questions. Free access to software for non-commercial use!

Mathieu Lagrange's bio:

Mathieu Lagrange holds 15 years of experience in the IT software industry, filling EMEA Informatica Big Data Product Specialist, presales and post sales engineer. Prior to Informatica, Mathieu was consultant at Accenture, in Telco Industry.

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Additional information

1. RSVP to the meetup

Please RSVP to this meetup, since we need to put everybody on a guest list for entering the Spotify office. The event will be held in the cafeteria of the Spotify office, so don’t go to the normal entrance but to the 11th floor.

2. Pizza and drinks

Thanks to Spotify, pizza and beverages will be available for the participants during the meetup. This is another reason to RSVP to this meetup, if you are willing to come - it will help us to estimate the number of pizzas and drinks based on declared attendance.

3. The entrance

The door will be open between 17:45 and 18:15* Because of fire regulations, we need to keep a list of everybody in the building, so please make sure that you get your name ticked off the list at the entrance or (in case of a +1), make sure that the person at the door puts your name on the list.

*Unfortunately we can not leave the door open all the time (the company security policy), nor have a person that will be constantly watching for guests coming late. If you need to come later, please let us know in the comments below, so that somebody will come to the door to open it a given time.

See you at soon!

SHUG Team