PUNE

MANUFACTURING
Product Research | Engineering Analy cs | Predic ve Maintenance |
Process and Quality Analysis | Distribu on Op miza on
MEDIA AND
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Network Op miza on | Customer Scoring | Churn Preven on | Fraud Preven on
ENERGY
Smart Grid | Explora on | Opera onal Modeling | Power­line Sensors
HEALTHCARE AND
LIFE SCIENCES
Pharmacogenomics | Pharmaceu cal Research | Bioinforma cs |
Clinical Outcomes Research
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Many surveys point out that paucity of talent is one of the biggest challenges in this space. Companies are
struggling to find people who not only understand the domain, but are able to adopt and run Big Data and
Analy cal projects efficiently. In India, talent availability for Big Data and Analy cs is high in the usual
suspects­Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai.
Interes ngly, Pune too is home to a few success stories:
PERSISTENT SYSTEMS
It has been a pioneer in Big Data. The Pune­based company started off on its Big Data journey in 2009 just as the open
source Hadoop technology was beginning to mature. With partnerships and collabora ons with all the major Hadoop
players, Persistent has already worked on over 75 Big Data projects and technology proof of concepts.
With a strong technology team of more than 400 professionals including technology architects, data scien sts, business
analysts and domain experts, Persistent has established itself as a leader in Big Data technologies in a rela vely short span
of me. It has been recognized for the analy cs work it has done for the famous Indian Television show ‘Satyamev Jayate’. It
has also been named a 2013 Laureate of IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program in the Emerging Technology category.
The company has a separate Analy cs Prac ce that focuses on all the Big Data and Analy cs needs of its customers, and
ac vely contributes to various open source projects like Sqoop, SciDB, HDFS and Hive.
daVIZta
Headquartered in New Jersey, this company has its India team based out of Pune. Shekhar Yerramilli and Krishnan
Padmanabhan, founders of daViZta, come from two diverse backgrounds: Life Sciences and Financial Informa on
Technology respec vely. The combina on of the two gave rise to the business idea of Revenue Analy cs for companies in
the Life Sciences industry.
Set up in 2010, the company caters to pharmaceu cal companies in the United States and helps them manage their
revenue life cycles be er. A business journal NJBIZ that covers all important business developments in New Jersey has
chosen daVIZta as one of the fastest growing companies in the state. One of the main reasons why the company chose
Pune was because of the availability of talent. With the help of its consul ng arm, the company started genera ng revenues
from the beginning and has built its suite of solu ons for its pharma customers. Broadly, this includes three types of solu ons:
one for Data Management, one for Revenue Analy cs and enhancer or aid of Business Intelligence Analysis.
With companies warming up to the idea of Big Data and Analy cs, the opportuni es are aplenty, across sectors. Wariness about
security is s ll a cause of concern, especially among the financial companies but with advanced technologies coming up fast, this
fear is also being allayed.
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