Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eastbanc Technologies, Chairman Wolf Ruzicka and Polina Reshetova, Head of Data Science (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You said earlier that you are a close partner of Microsoft Azure. Azure is one of the platforms that is really working hard to establish as much abstraction as possible so developers can develop AI applications on top of that. What opportunities do you see emerging out of that trend? Microsoft is investing

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eastbanc Technologies, Chairman Wolf Ruzicka and Polina Reshetova, Head of Data Science (Part 4)

Wolf Ruzicka: The fourth bucket is anything related to mobile applications. Please don’t think about Flappy Birds type of application. Think of the enterprise-level applications. If one of the startups gets listed on NASDAQ, NASDAQ will try to upsell that newly-listed company to products that we have developed for NASDAQ around mobile.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eastbanc Technologies, Chairman Wolf Ruzicka and Polina Reshetova, Head of Data Science (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk to me a little bit about the way your company is organized? You do generic software development, but it looks like you’re doing specific stuff in AI-related technologies. What percentage of your company is focused on AI-related technologies? Wolf Ruzicka: Before we go there, we have one more example that

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eastbanc Technologies, Chairman Wolf Ruzicka and Polina Reshetova, Head of Data Science (Part 2)

Wolf Ruzicka: We found some very interesting concepts that only the power of big data can bring, for instance, the causality of customer complaints. When a customer complains, you would assume that it is because of maybe heavy traffic or badly-maintained infrastructure. It turned out to be the marital status of the driver. That doesn’t

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eastbanc Technologies, Chairman Wolf Ruzicka and Polina Reshetova, Head of Data Science (Part 1)

Eastbanc Technologies is a services company that has spun off a number of product companies based on their services business. More recently, their focus has been on AI and Big Data. Sramana Mitra: If you would please set some context about Eastbanc Technologies to start off this interview, that would be ideal.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ganes Kesari, Cofounder & Chief Decision Scientist of Gramener (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You have not thought about productizing some of the visualization capabilities that you have developed? Ganes Kesari: That’s something that we are currently doing. There are several solutions like this that are domain-specific where we have highly specialized implementations of analytics or visualization solutions. We are creating horizontal solutions. We already have a

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ganes Kesari, Cofounder & Chief Decision Scientist of Gramener (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You don’t use off-the-shelf visualization tools like Tableau or FusionCharts? There’s a whole bunch of visualization capabilities available. You don’t use any of that. You do everything from scratch. Ganes Kesari: That’s right. We don’t use the official product. The approach we follow is more programmatic. Our platform is built on Python and

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ganes Kesari, Cofounder & Chief Decision Scientist of Gramener (Part 2)

Ganes Kesari: The final aspect is the storytelling. There can be great insights from analytics, but unless it’s used by the organization, it is a waste. That’s where we bring in a data visualization and storytelling layer to convert all of these insights into interactive stories. That’s consumed by all the teams – product, marketing,

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