Analytics and Big Data: What it Means for SaaS and Cloud Providers

Analytics and Big Data: What it Means for SaaS and Cloud Providers

Thursday 9th April 15.30-19.30

, Baker Tilly Offices, 25 Farringdon Street, London, EC4A 4AB

You've heard all the hype about analytics, big data and data science. Now it's time to get down to the business reality of what it means for SaaS and cloud providers

• What analytics capabilities should SaaS providers be offering?
• How will predictive analytics change the user experience of SaaS?
• Are there legal and compliance issues to take on board?
• What does big data mean for cloud hosting providers?
• What's the best way to get started if I don't know my Hadoop from my Cassandra or my Pig from my Spark?

At this event, you'll learn at first hand from SaaS and cloud providers who have already developed new products and lines of business to harness the potential of smart data.

Hear from a panel of expert speakers from leading industry vendors, join in the debate and experience EuroCloud's legendary network effect. Our speakers are:

• Ian Hargreaves, Solution Engineering Director, and Mike Wood, Principal Adviser, Wave Analytics Cloud, Salesforce UK
• Analytics for the rest of us: Salesforce Analytics Cloud powered by Wave demonstrates how cloud delivery allows more employees to derive insights from the increasingly varied types of data being made available by the rising tide of digitisation
• Tim Barker, Chief Product Officer, DataSift
• 360-degree nirvana or privacy poison pill?: As big data goes mainstream in the post-Snowden era, a privacy-first model is crucial. Tim explains how DataSift is providing insights while protecting identity in its Facebook partnership
• Spencer Earp, VP EMEA, ServiceMax
• Realising the promise of big data in service transformation: how service leaders action data now, and where this is leading next
• Emily Jones, Partner, Osborne Clarke
• Will big data give you a bigger data protection headache?: The legal and data protection issues for cloud service providers using or involved in big data
• Moderator: Phil Wainewright, chair of EuroCloud UK and co-founder diginomica, will present a brief market overview.

If you are a cloud provider, integrator or reseller, whether SaaS, PaaS or IaaS, you need to be at this event. In just a few hours you'll learn many new angles on a key issue and emerge better equipped to make smart decisions on your own strategy moving forwards.

You'll have the chance to network and talk with the great, the good, the best of UK Cloud. Our legendary networking afterparty offers a relaxed and convivial atmosphere in which to introduce yourself; take the market temperature and lay the ground for tomorrow’s alliances and strategic partnerships.

This event also marks the launch of EuroCloud Awards 2015 and we have a special short session launching Europe's most prestigious and hard fought Awards programme:

• Lindsay Smith, fame in song and poem, will canter through this year's categories & rules;
• Dr Richard Sykes, VP EuroCloud Europe, Chair CIF and Chair of judges on EuroCloud Awards in UK and judge in European and other technology awards, will explain HOW to WIN, as he provides tips from the judges robing room.