Monday, May 23, 2016

UNLOCKING THE VALUES IN BIG DATA

KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 (Bernama) -- BDO in Malaysia hosted its first Analytics and Big Data seminar at its office in Menara CenTARa on 27 April 2016, with the theme “Analytics and Big Data: Harnessing the Digital Footprint”. FUSIONEX was also invited to showcase its industry specific analytic solutions in this event.

More than 60 C-suite level participants attended the session with speakers from BDO and FUSIONEX. BDO Managing Partner, Dato’ Gan Ah Tee, in his opening remarks, commented that “Data is an unpolished diamond and the key challenge is how we unlock the value of this data. That is in essence the objective of the event”

Woon Tai Hai, Executive Director of BDO Consulting, Malaysia, in his presentation - Analytics and Big Data: Harnessing the digital footprint provided an insight into the overall landscape of Big Data, including the different maturity levels of Data Analytics adoption. He quoted from global research firms (IDC, Gartner and EIU) that “74% of organisations in the region acknowledge that data is a strategic asset. But 90% of the organisations cite internal issues as barriers to adoption”


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