Lisa Braun25
What's the most exciting business change you see as a result of leveraging new big data & analytics? You mentioned disruption in insurance and in financial fraud models, to name 2. What excites you the most? And where is the sweet spot for CSC?
eddie satterly
There are a ton of interesting ways that the new data technologies can help I picked a few fun ones on the call but there are many more
Lisa Braun
What's your personal favorite or where you see the most potential for CSC?
Sorin Costea
not forgetting healthcare or manufacturing implications...
eddie satterly
I talked to a COO today who is trying to do more analytics to sell to his customers but cant afford the CapEx investment so OpEx like the BDPaaS helps him get new services to market.
Lisa Braun
I think the impact on the insurance industry, a data-based industry, is going to be very intersting. All the models change with data from self-driving cars, for e.g.
eddie satterly
@sorincos Healthcare has a major need for these techs
Adrian Jones
Do CSC have any specific industries we are targeting with BDPaaS ?
Lisa Braun
Yes OpEx lowers the barrier to entry - the cloud's calling card. So having our analytics as-a-service gets the foot in the door.
eddie satterly
@sorincos From improved patient outcomes, to home monitoring devices to avoiding repeat hospital visits
John Furrier
Fraud detection is no brainer but the real time nature is critical in managing that
Sorin Costea
still sometimes capex keeps the spotlight - then we need more differentiator "aces" in hand
eddie satterly
CSC is targeting their core customers and the first real industry solutions are going to be out in Decemeber and will be manufacturing (smartX) and Insurance models
eddie satterly
Yes fraud has become a major conversation but many companies are having issues getting the data they need.
eddie satterly
The aces are coming as we evolve the platform with the 3.0 release in December we are really starting an all Aces play :)
Sorin Costea
@eddie_satterly Right, healthcare is the obvious, so let's focus (also) on the others :)
eddie satterly
Healthcare has a lot of Not Invented Here issues to be honest I think there is oppty but they need to try and fail first as in the past with other tech approaches
Lisa Braun
@eddie_satterly Can you say more about that the "Aces" are?
eddie satterly
Industry focused R models, pre-built industry focused dashboards, working with context data experts in the field to provide data science libraries for our customers to use on top of BDPaaS
Lisa Braun
@eddie_satterly And so we target our key industries for this I take it. Still, does one industry really stand out? Is it hard to create the data science libraries? A field all its own?
eddie satterly
Manufacturing and Insurance want and need the help and those will be what we release toolkits for in December
Adrian Jones
@eddie_satterly will the intention be to submit the models back into Open Source R
Lisa Braun
@eddie_satterly Got it.
eddie satterly
The March release will most likely be Healthcare and FinServ as they tend to try themselves first and then we can help when they are not as successful as they would like
eddie satterly
All of our work on the Apache projects we do Open Source back, however the toolkits will be CSC apps work and built for our platform.
Sorin Costea
@eddie_satterly that's the way, giving back!
Lisa Braun
As encouraged by our entire new open source program: www.csc.com/opensour...
