ASSIGNMENT: BIG DATA CHALLENGES CASE STUDY TITLE: CONVERTING DATA INTO BUSINESS VALUE AT VOLVO STUDENT’s NAME: JOSEPH OSASUMWEN LECTURER’s NAME: PROF. HOSSEIN FIROUZI COURSE TITLE: CIS 500 DATE: JANUARY 28, 2013. ABSTRACT Big data has posed both challenges and opportunity in our present world of technology sciences. The challenges related to searching, analyzing, manipulating, and organizing are experienced when data explode, this challenges cannot be assign to one sector or field because
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The Big Data Challenges Markesha Peterson Dr. Lazzara Information Technology For Management October 28, 2012 Volvo Car Corporation is now capturing massive amounts of data from their vehicles. (Strader 2011) Rich Strader who sat in the CIO’s chair at Volvo for a twelve month stint is now convinced that, in this world today the consumers now value smart tech as much as automotive engineering. Strader feels manufacturers need to create vehicles
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THE BIG DATA CHALLENGES by William Thomas Info System Decision-Making Professor Raied Salman July 21, 2014 Volvo was founded in 1927 and, is one of the more popular brands of vehicles with over 400,000 cars sold in 2013. Their largest markets are the United States, Sweden, China, Germany and the UK. Volvo has taken vehicle diagnostics to another level by using the data transferred from their vehicles to improve the quality and performance of their overall fleet on the street and on the assembly
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Challenges of Big Data Data driven decision making is one of many benefits Big Data provides, but before benefits can be discussed one needs to look into the challenges related to Big Data. Prior to the hard drive era, people logged data on paper and eventually stored it in a locker room. With so much data at hand, it was merely impossible for one to collate all of it into a structured format. Besides, analysis of this same very data was very unlikely to happen or likely to happen in a timeline
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Networks Volvo utilized data mining in an effort to discover the unknown valuable relationships in the data collected and to assist in making early predictive information. It created a network of sensors and CPUs that were embedded throughout the cars and from which data was captured. Data was also captured from customer relationship systems (CRM), dealership systems, product development and design systems and from the production floors in their factories. The terabytes of data collected was streamed
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Companies face many challenges when it comes to capturing, storing, searching, and analyzing Big Data. Big Data is a term used to describe the voluminous amount of structured and semi-structured data generated by companies. This paper will focus on The Volvo Car Corporation and how they were able to face this problem due to its voluminous amounts of data being streamed for their vehicles. I will go over how Volvo was able to integrate Cloud infrastructure into its networks, explain how they transformed
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ASSINGNMENT: CASE STUDY1: THE BIG DATA CHALLENGES NAME: MICHEL NGAKO EMOU PROF: HOSSEIN FIROUZI COURSE: CIS 500; Information System for Decision Making January 31, 2013. INTRODUCTION Volvo Car Corporation separated from his parent Ford in August, 2010; it was also breaking free from Ford IT infrastructure. That’s allows the company to developed and integrated new IT infrastructure, making a significant changes on their business. 1) Judge how Volvo Car Corporation integrated
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THE BIG DATA CHALLENGES References http://www.i-cio.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/8833/i-cio_Case_Study_Volvo.pdf http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000008490 http://esd.volvocars.com/local/us/Navigation_Manuals/2011-Volvo-Navigation-Manual-C30-S40-V50-C70-XC90.pdf Volvo integrates cloud infrastructure into their networks by the help of Windows Azure. Volvo’s marketing campaign wanted to release an ad during the release of the Twilight movies series
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The Big Data Challenges April 19th, 2012 Introduction When Volvo separated from Ford in 2010, it was breaking free from an IT infrastructure that consisted of a tangle of different systems and licenses. The need was there to develop a new stand alone IT infrastructure that could provide better Business Intelligence, boost communication capabilities and enrich collaborations. Volvo Car Corporation Integrates the Cloud into Its Networks The ability to collectively harness the
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Technology (IT) from an on-line host provider. The ability to rent programs and internet services instead of investing in buying and housing all of these programs saves an organization quite a bit of time and money. This cloud technology, often known as data demand centers, provides compute power, storage, and memory to companies at a price per hour so it gives companies the advantage of not having to invest in on-site hardware equipment (Lambert, 2011). Furthermore, this cloud infrastructure allows
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