Inside Broadcom’s data simplification strategy that enables 26 business units to use the same data analytics platform
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Summary
Broadcom CIO Alan Davidson has revealed to VentureBeat that the company is standardising its data analytics tools on the Incorta platform, in a move that exemplifies the company’s approach of “ruthless simplification” to complex data issues.
Broadcom’s approach focused on cleaning data at the source, rather than transforming it, and creating one authoritative source for customer records, product information, procurement data and supplier details.
The simplification has enabled the company to more easily manage the 1,800 disparate applications and 187,000 product SKUs it took on following its $61bn acquisition of VMware.
Following the move, Broadco now has over 17,000 internal users relying on Incorta for analytics on top of over 200 terabytes of operational data.
Incorta’s new Nexus product, which provides generative AI capabilities, will help Broadcom users to more easily access the data they need without the need for dashboard creation or manual data preparation.