Matti Aksela, VP of analytics and technology for Comptel, spoke with RCR Wireless News’ Kelly Hill about trends in big data, including the impact of big data and the “Internet of Things.”
Aksela came to Comptel when the company acquired Xtract Oy, a Finnish data analytics startup that specialized in advanced analytics software, in 2012.
IoT, he said, is “one of the areas where big data can be very useful.” Aksela added that although some see potential data collection issues with IoT due to the proliferation of different types of devices, much IoT information will be structured and semi-structured data, which is easier to process than unstructured data. However, he said, the ability to process those large amounts of data very quickly will increase, especially if companies want to react in real time.
Aksela said that while telecom companies have long dealt with data mediation, with systems that were designed not to lose any information, the ability to leverage new and disparate sources of data such as social media information require data orchestration, rather than just mediation of a single data stream. IoT presents not only the likelihood of increasing data coming into the network — more data collection points as more sensors, home and wearables are wirelessly connected — but the chance to improve both network operations and marketing through the utilization of more of that data.
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