Interview with Robert Eve, Senior Director of Data Management at TIBCO Software
As the information age matures, data has become the most valuable resources for enterprises. Today, organizations are putting data at the centre of their decision-making processes to drive exceptional business value. In an interview, Robert (Bob) Eve, Senior Director of Data Management Thought Leadership at TIBCO Software reveals how the growth in big data has created a huge market for data analytics tools that help enterprises seamlessly implement big data solutions.
TIBCO helps organizations augment the intelligence of every person, system, and device in their ecosystem by interconnecting them with virtually all data sources and analytic capabilities needed to generate new insights, sharing them in real-time for better decisions and automated actions that drive business efficiencies and results. TIBCO’s analytics and data management specific portfolio includes the following products:
• TIBCO Spotfire® provides advanced, self-service visualization • TIBCO Jaspersoft® powers embedded analytics and reporting applications • TIBCO® Data Science lets organizations collaborate, operationalize, and scale machine learning • TIBCO® Streaming analyzes and acts on IoT devices and other streaming data in real time • TIBCO® Data Virtualization provides agile data access and delivery at enterprise scale • TIBCO EBX™ lets organizations govern shared data assets such as master and reference data consistently • TIBCO SnappyData delivers a unified analytics data fabric that enhances analytics, data science, streaming, and data management
Let me first decompose big data and analytics. Today, big data is just data. Just ask IDC, who recently updated their Global Datasphere Forecast. Organizations need to scale their data infrastructure quickly or risk missing out on the digital transformation opportunities enabled by these data assets. TIBCO, along with trusted partners, is smoothing that transformation on the infrastructure side. TIBCO offerings such as TIBCO Data Virtualization and TIBCO EBX can be combined to provide broad access, with the right level of governance, so that businesses can take advantage of all their data assets.
On the analytics side, the most significant shift is “analytics everywhere” with employees of all stripes building analytical skills, enabled by easier to use visualization and data science tools such as TIBCO Spotfire and TIBCO Data Science. In a world where data scientists are scarce, arming 100 times more knowledge workers is the only way businesses can deliver the analytics required to drive meaningful results.
Now, fast forward three to five years. Twice the data, if not more. And with the exception of private and regulated data, all of it is easily accessible by everyone across your organization, and likely many of your suppliers and customers. Further, by then, every employee will be “citizen” data scientist, each skilled at developing the kinds of insights and transformations needed to effectively compete in a world where data and analytics are ubiquitous.
