UBITECH participated at the Industrial Panel of DATA 2015 that took place in Colmar, Alsace, France, July 20-22, 2015. The conference, as well as the Industrial Panel, was held in conjunction with ICETE 2015, ICINCO 2015, ICSOFT 2015 and SIMULTECH 2015. The panel entitled ‘Big data and efficient software: a new make or buy dilemma on data and software quality’ had the presence of Chiara Francalanci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) as the panel chair; and Mirco Veltri (SAP, Italy), Dario Regazzoni (EMC2, Italy), Anastasios Zafeiropoulos (Ubitech Ltd., Greece) and Pascal Jansen (Thoughtworks, Italy).
The session explored the challenges on efficiently handling big data in various domains taking into account constraints imposed by the infrastructural operational environment as well as preferences of the involved stakeholders. UBITECH presented a novel programming approach –as it is under specification within the framework of the ARCADIA Horizon 2020 project- that aims at optimally placing applications over programmable infrastructure, taking into account –among others- big data aspects. Furthermore, UBITECH presented work in progress and challenges with regards to the production of big data analytics in various domains.
The need for design and implementation of innovative big data management solutions based on the peculiarities of each application domain was highlighted in the panel along with the need for investment on the human capital of enterprises in terms of data scientists that are aware of their daily business processes and can contribute towards the transition to analytically-drive enterprises.
