Engaging Customers Using Big Data: How Marketing Analytics Are Transforming Business

Dr. Arvind Sathi is the World Wide Communication Sector Architect for Big Data at IBM®. Dr. Sathi received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University and worked under Nobel Prize winner Dr. Herbert A. Simon. Dr. Sathi is a seasoned professional with more than 20 years of leadership in Information Management architecture and delivery. His primary focus has been in creating visions and roadmaps for Advanced Analytics at leading IBM clients in Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, and Energy & Utilities organizations, worldwide. He has conducted a number of workshops on Big Data assessment and roadmap development.

Prior to joining IBM, Dr. Sathi was the pioneer in developing knowledge-based solutions for CRM at Carnegie Group. At BearingPoint, he led the development of Enterprise Integration, MDM, and Operations Support Systems/Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) solutions for the communications market and also developed horizontal solutions for communications, financial services, and public services. At IBM, Dr. Sathi has led several Information Management programs in MDM, data security, business intelligence, advanced analytics, big data and related areas and has provided strategic architecture oversight to IBM's strategic accounts. He has also delivered a number of workshops and presentations at industry conferences on technical subjects including MDM and data architecture, and he holds two patents in data masking. His first book'Customer Experience Analytics' was released by MC Press in October 2011 and the second book 'Big Data Analytics' was released in October 2012. He has also been a contributing author in a number of Data Governance books written by Sunil Soares.