1. Software is Eating The World
But Data is Digesting It
10.20.2005
Dreamforce 2013

2. Software is Eating the World
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5. Source: PwC
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6. All were founded
before 1989
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7. The average age of the
Top 20 Software Companies is
47 years
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8. Software sales growth
is slowing
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9. The Four Stages of
Software Production
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10. STAGE 1
“The money is in the hardware,
not the software”
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11. STAGE 2
“Actually, the money is in the software”
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12. STAGE 3
“The money is not in the software,
but it is differentiating”
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13. STAGE 4
“Software is not even differentiating,
the value is the data”
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14. The Age of Software
The Age of Data
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15. Pressure is Growing
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16. The Shock of The New
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17. The CIO is the Last To Know
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18. Systems of Record
Systems of Engagement
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19. Engagement with customers,
partners, employees,
and other stakeholders
generates data
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Location, location, location
Influence patterns
Customer service feedback
Sentiment
Geographical trends.
Search Findings
Predicting retail and property sales
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21. Software is a means
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22. “The lumber industry sells what used to be waste —
sawdust, chips, and shredded wood — for a pretty
profit. Today you’ll find these by-products in
synthetic fireplace logs, concrete, mulch, particle
board, fuel, livestock and pet bedding, winter road
traction, weed killing and more.”
Jason Fried, 37signals
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24. “In contrast to most traditional survey
methods, search data are collected as a byproduct of normal activity”
- the Bank of England
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28. What you Share Changes What You Drink
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29. When Web Companies Grow Up
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30. The Role
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31. The 2013 Language Scape
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32. The Trends
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34. Source: John C. McCallum
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35. Many Tools – the Rise of Polyglot
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36. Database Types
Key Value Stores: RIAK, Redis, Voldemort,
Document databases: CouchDB, MongoDB
Column store – SAP HANA, Hbase, Vertica
Graph databases – Neo4J, Infinite Graph, Giraph
Column/Key Value Store Hybrid- Cassandra
Schemaless != Structureless
“Eventual Consistency” and CAP.
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37. Analysis Modes
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38. The Players
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39. Hadoop is Eating the World
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40. Data Viz
D3.js
Processing.org
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41. GitHub Growth and the RedMonk Experience
See Story of Data post here.
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42. Source: Google Trends
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43. Source: Google Trends
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44. Source: Hacker News
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45. Source: Hacker News
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46. Source: Stack Overflow
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47. Source: Stack Overflow
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51. Social Coding
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52. Social Data
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53. Hadoop at Facebook
http://hadoopblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/facebook-has-worlds-largest-hadoop.html
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