3 Things To Pack For Your Big Data Journey

Vodafone Group is a British multinational telecommunications company, with headquarters in London. It predominantly operates services in the regions of Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. Vodafone owns and operates networks in 26 countries and has partner networks in over 50 additional countries. Its Vodafone Global Enterprise division provides telecommunications and IT services to corporate clients in 150 countries.

- Mohita Ghosh

Technology has made it possible to track the minutest piece of information about customers and their behaviour across touch points, which was not getting captured in the past. This has led to humongous amount of data which has gamut of insights hidden in it and this welcomes us to the world of Big Data. Big data can concise in 3Vs i.e. more volume of variety of data with a greater velocity, exposing the business to bigger avenues of pre-emptive business decisions. This is the reason why today, whether or not an organization is ready to handle existing data, they are tying their seat belts for a big data take off. Hey, but take a minute to pack all you need before you leave for your big data journey.

Mistakes that Organizations do in Adopting Big data

Today from a C-level executive to a ground level associate, everybody is looking up to the Google, Amazon and Uber to get into the big data band wagon and reach as close to real time decision making as possible. But before we do that it is imperative to evaluate that whether the organization is ready for big data. Organizations need to understand that adopting big data is a transitional process. Readiness for big data can be established only after you have made sure that the existing data is used optimally.