How Open Analytics Impacts Organizations

Last week Ikanow, AOL, and Cloudant hosted an Open Analytics NYC Meetup and I wanted to provide a brief recap.

The title of this meetup was “How Open Analytics Impacts Organizations” and the goal was to talk about how open technologies can have a positive impact on organizations and individuals. The 3 presenters did a great job of staying on topic and below are links to their slides along with a brief recap.

Up first was Amir Halfon, the CTO, Financial Service at MarkLogic. He talked about how MarkLogic is enabling information discovery by unifying search and data management. He covered a few use cases, one of which was about getting a 360 degree view of your customer (in the financial sector) and the value that bringing in mortgage, credit cards, personal connections, and other data can have on financial institutions.

Chris Morgan, Ikanow’s President, was up next. He spoke about the organizational benefits of leveraging open source and cross-functional teams. He touched on problems organizations face today and how adopting agile methodologies with open analytics can result in some powerful results. He provided examples of how organizations utilizing Ikanow’s platform have seen drastic improvements to their internal processes, identified millions in fraudulent activities; and more.

Last up was Darshan Somashekar, the Co-Founder of Image Easy Solutions, the creators of EasyBib. EasyBib is a literacy platform that provides citation, note taking, and research tools that are easy to use and educational. He talked about how open source technologies such as Cloudant, MySQL, and Solr are helping them to use data to improve student research.

For a list of all of the Open Analytics meetup groups, click here (bottom of the page).

Lastly, don’t forget we’ll be releasing An Open Future in the next few weeks. This is a free eBook written by members of the Open Analytics community. To get a copy of this eBook and/or provide your own feedback, click here.

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