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Women in Big Data Webcast Recap
Join us for these upcoming webcasts:
September 4 BI: SAP BW/4HANA Overview and Roadmap
September 5 BI: SAP Analytics Cloud – Data Connectivity, including Road Map
September 10 BI: SAP Analytics Cloud for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise customers – Roadmap Update
September 11 – BI: SAP BW/4HANA Conversion
October 9 Making the Right Connections with SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Webcast promotion:
In 2018, only 20% of all tech jobs were held by women. Join us as we discuss women in the big data field, and the opportunities that can arise from a more inclusive industry. Attend now:
This was an SAP webcast earlier this summer
Source: SAP
Women in Big Data was founded as a program 6 years ago from SAP, Intel, and IBM to address diversity gap
Provide opportunities in field of big data
Through connecting with each other, fostering, and inspiring each other, address diversity challenge
Source: SAP
What is big data; I assume we have all seen this before.
The 4 v’s; first is volume, large sets of data in data lake, data warehouse
Source: SAP
Where data is used; in marketing to automate campaigns
HR is a big data user; trend is towards digitizing HR, employees to access data using mobile device
Finance is a user of big data, for business intelligence, leverage data required to support close processes
Provide insight into investment decisions
Sales automation, for understanding improvements in sales cycle
Leverage machine learning to use cross selling opportunities
IT uses engineering and architecting solutions across the enterprise
Source: SAP
Where do they see opportunities to improve diversity?
Bring more women in field of big data
With big data, comes big opportunities
Growth in developing AI solutions, and data science
Opportunities are not just for engineering positions, positions such as business analysis, mine data using data science tools, set up and structure big data solutions
Female representation is shown above; huge potential
Many companies are sponsoring this; over 10 chapters across the globe. Companies expose their technologies, mentorship and more.
Source: SAP
Site: https://www.womeninbigdata.org/
Replay can be found here
Linked in https://www.linkedin.com/groups/6981086/ – I joined myself