The advancing digitisation of various areas of life and work in our society is making ever-increasing quantities of data available in a wide variety of forms.
Increasingly powerful and more networked devices such as smartphones, sensors, cameras, machines and servers produce measurement data, log data and process data, while commerce and social media platforms generate records of social interactions, as well as transactions involving goods and finances.
The collection, analysis and evaluation of that data aids better and more detailed understanding of existing business models and the establishment of new, ‘digital’ business models and products. Highly scalable data management forms the indispensable basis for many processes in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
‘Big Data’ is the collective term for the technologies, frameworks and tools that have arisen for this purpose in recent years. What they have in common is that they are scaled horizontally as distributed systems and their runtime properties can thus be comparatively easily adjusted to increasing quantities of data through the addition of further resources. Big Data Systems can process a broad range of data types from a wide variety of sources, both in large batches and in a continuous data stream with low latencies. With these properties, big-data technologies provide the foundation for complex analytical evaluations, scalable, reporting-oriented data platforms, and distributed software systems with an event-based processing paradigm.
Since as long ago as 2009, inovex has been one of the first IT service providers in Germany dealing in depth with big data, and has developed and implemented productive corporate solutions in many projects:
This means we can support you in all areas: from planning and development to operation of Big Data Systems, using on-premises infrastructure and/or in the cloud.
arvato Financial Solutions is collaborating with Microsoft, Cloud and Big Data specialist inovex GmbH, and three pilot e-commerce customers on an innovation project to create a Big Data architecture based on Microsoft Azure. The team will use the project to evaluate how the combination of Cloud Computing, Big Data and advanced analytics can improve fraud prevention and facilitate the development of new financial BPO services.
READ CASE STUDYThe IT subsidiary of dm, the chain of cosmetics and healthcare stores with the biggest sales in Germany, has more than 800 employees focused on digitalising the company’s retail operation.
The emphasis is on the development of innovative solutions: for the online shop and customer and employee apps as well as for the IT infrastructure in the dm stores, distribution centres and headquarters. With a number of innovations, a key role is played by the efficient handling and analysis of large amounts of data in order to produce added benefits from the combination of data sources (Big Data).
mobile.de is a marketplace for the buying and selling of vehicles. Every month, the web platform draws 13.5 million visitors who can choose from the more than 1.6 million vehicles on offer. Each visit to the platform creates a stream of data which contains information about the demand for particular vehicles, the quality of the vehicles for sale, and user requirements. mobile.de wants to use this data to continuously improve the user experience for both vehicle sellers and purchasers.
READ CASE STUDYIn optimising the group’s supply chain, inovex has worked with REWE’s IT subsidiary, REWE Digital. This arm of the company is responsible for all the REWE Group’s strategic online activities and aims to become the leading provider of online solutions in all REWE’s associated supermarkets and supply warehouses. These include those distribution warehouses that REWE set up specifically for their home delivery service, as well as the group’s in-store delivery and collection points all over Germany.
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