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Major Domo: Building a data driven
culture at Rakuten
David Ramos
Rakuten Inc, Big Data Dept
@anotherdatageek

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Agenda
Who is
Best Practices &
Lessons Learned
Challenges

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The Empowerment Company

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Shopping is Entertainment!
Powered by
Rakuten’s
Ecosystem
E-Commerce
Credit
Card
Banking
Securities Telecom
Travel
E-Money
Digital Goods
Portal &
Content
Database
Loyalty
Program
Log-In

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Diverse
E-Commerce Content Reservation
Pro Sports Finance ..and more

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Global • E-commerce in 14 countries and regions
• All services and businesses in 28 countries

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Innovative
Listed in Forbes Top 20

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Building a Data Driven Culture

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A Global BI Ecosystem

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Capability Assessment
Discovery Discovery
TODAY
HISTORY
Daily Active Users
What
happened?
Why?

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Capability Assessment
Discovery Discovery
TODAY
HISTORY
Daily Active Users
FUTURE
Prediction
What
might happen?

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Capability Assessment
Discovery DiscoveryPrediction
What should
we do?
PREDICTION
Business Risk Identified
Action
Stable
Action
(Prescription)
Email?
Point?
Coupon?
Price?
…?

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Capability Assessment
Model developed by TDWI

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Data Platform Ecosystem
Discovery to Action
Dashboard Data Driven ServicesReporting and Visualization
Data Lake

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Domo Deployment at Rakuten
Data Lake
Global View
BU View
D2D
Category
View
Category
View
BU View BU View BU View
Local
Data
Sources
Super
DB

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Growing the Data Culture with Domo
54 Total Instances 807 Monthly Users61k Logins 1,542 Unique Users
+600% Growth
Year over Year

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Challenges

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Global Expansion
Rapidly Expanding Worldwide from 2010
• E-commerce in 14 countries and regions
• All services and businesses in 28 countries

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Need for Platform Unification
Data Movement
Mess
Too Many Data Platforms
Group Companies Custom AppsEnterprise Apps
Too Many Reporting Platforms
2 3
1
4
$$$$ COST
API’s
File Processing
Direct DB

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Governance
Common KPI Definitions
Islands of Resources
Technical Debt
TCO
System Integrations
Lack of processes

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Best Practices & Lesson Learned

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Keep it Simple Stupid!
We do not need a complex framework to start

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Expanding Self Service
BU View
Local
Data
Sources
Rakuten Data Lake
Phase1
Phase 1
Data Driven Apps
Phases 3 &4

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Center of Excellence
Visualize & Socialize Data
Self Service
Rapid Deployment
Cloud Platforms
Biz Optimization
• CoE Advantages Rakuten:
 Teams & Processes
 Development
 Deployment
 Knowledge Sharing
• By enabling global:
+

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Supporting BU Expansion
1 2 3
Connect to
Data
Sources
Transform
Data
Build Cards &
Dashboards
Biz
Unit
CoE
• Workbench
• Salesforce
• MySQL, MSSQL
• File extracts
• Playbooks
• API connectors
• Emailer
• Custom connectors
• Beast Mode*
• Data Fusion
• Data Flow
• Card-building
• Page management
• Users & Permissions
• Training
• Knowledge-sharing
workshops

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Play all your cards!
Data Source
Domo
KPI Cards
Data Flow
1-Click Playbooks

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Manage Sources
Connectors
Flat files
Data Center
Workbench

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Eat your own dog food

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Deliver Value QUICKLY!
DISCOVER DELIVER DRIVEDEFINE
Business
Optimization
• Biz Sponsor
• Projector Team
• Objectives
• Biz Drivers
• KPI
• Data Sources
• Dashboards & Alerts
• Guided Analytics
• 3rd Party Integrations / Playbooks
• Domo Training
• KPI to Data source Mapping
• Tech Specification for Ingestion
• Grow business
• Prep for deeper
analytics
Executed in 2-4 weeks

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Automated Executive Dashboards
Daily Paper Reports Dashboards

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Cultivate expertise
Periodic Best
Practices Training
CoE to BU’s
TOPICS:
• How to manage login accts, pages,
rights.
• Conventions (e.g., data source
naming, page naming, etc)
• How to define KPI’s
• How to implement into a card
• Playbooks
• Workbench
• Card-building, Beast Mode, etc.
• KPI forms
• Etc…
Periodic Cross-BU Knowledge
Sharing Workshops
CoE as Facilitator
TOPICS:
• Business Process Change
• How does a meeting change, now that
we have always-on data?
• How does data-sharing change the
decisioning process?
• Do we follow a DACI model in
DomoTalk, and hashtag our
#decisions?
• How do QBR’s change?
• Etc…
Create
skilled
Professionals…
…who
Optimize the
Business.

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Thankyou!
David.Ramos@Rakuten.com
@anotherdatageek