Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with K.R. Sanjiv, SVP Analytics and Information Management Services, Wipro (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: And that is already exhausting the pool in Calcutta? K. R. Sanjiv: Yes, it is getting stretched. Calcutta is a place with a lot of statistical institutes.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with K.R. Sanjiv, SVP Analytics and Information Management Services, Wipro (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Is there anything else you would like to comment on in that domain? K. R. Sanjiv: As far as B2B companies are concerned, I think it is not so much of a fantasy. The potential they have today in terms of white spaces within their business processes is phenomenal. There are a few

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with K.R. Sanjiv, SVP Analytics and Information Management Services, Wipro (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Who are your top three clients in the BI/big data domain, who are really pushing the envelope on cutting-edge technology? K. R. Sanjiv: I will not be able to name customers, but let me throw some color on this. Historically, over the last 10 years, the big consumers of analytics have been retail

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with K.R. Sanjiv, SVP Analytics and Information Management Services, Wipro (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double down on how a data warehouse becomes an information warehouse, given what you are seeing. K. R. Sanjiv: Data itself is of limited value. Today the focus of an organization is to assimilate all the data and have data that is reliable, comprehensive, and consistent so that it can be used

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with K.R. Sanjiv, SVP Analytics and Information Management Services, Wipro (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: It is definitely not a volume game. This kind of volume is well within the capacity of data analysis. This has been around for a while. So why do you categorize it as a big data problem, and what is it that you are specifically doing in those circumstances?

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with K.R. Sanjiv, SVP Analytics and Information Management Services, Wipro (Part 1)

K. R. Sanjiv is the senior vice president of analytics and information management services at Wipro, a global IT, consulting and outsourcing company that provides services to companies by leveraging their data. In this interview Sanjiv defines the term big data and shares his opinion on what the future of big data will look like.

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Entrepreneurship in Bengal: A Blueprint for India’s Next Stage of Development

You have heard much about Jyoti Basu’s Bengal, Mamata Banerjee’s Kolkata, and various other dysfunctional views of the erstwhile capital of British India. Today, I am going to introduce you to Abhishek Rungta’s Kolkata, Pallav Nadhani’s Kolkata, Bimal Patwari’s Bengal, Srish Agarwal’s Bengal, and Arijit Bhattacharyya’s Bengal.

Outsourcing: Josh Lieberman, Co-Founder of KMS Technology, Atlanta and Ho Chi Minh City (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is the entrepreneurial landscape in Vietnam like? Josh Lieberman: It’s pretty interesting. For example, there’s a company by the name of VinaGame. I think the market cap is extraordinarily large, hundreds of billions of dollars. And there are other companies. From an entrepreneurial standpoint, a lot of the entrepreneurial energy is focused

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