Every company has
a data problem
Imagine this...
The weekly Excel report comes out and is delivered to your
email. As you review it, you see an anomaly in the financial
data that you don't understand, despite the pivot table
provided in the report that allows you to drill down to at
least some level of detail. You ask your operations analyst
what's going on. To which your analyst responds, "I'm not
sure. Let me find out."
The next day, the analyst tells you that the reason
for the anomaly is productivity was way down at the
manufacturing plant.
"That doesn't make sense," you say. "Can you ask
HR if sick days are impacting the productivity
numbers? Or could it be that there was an issue
with the time capture application at the plant?"
"It will take a week to get at that data and merge
it with the financial data," your analyst says.
"Can't you just send me a dump of the data from
the ERP and time application, and I'll work with
it myself?"
The analyst responds, "I don't have access to the
data, and it will take a few days to submit the
right tickets to get access to it."
If this scenario seems all too familiar to you, your
organization has a big data problem.