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Why Maruti Suzuki Is Building Data Lakes

Rajesh Uppal of Maruti Suzuki Shares How to Become More Data-Driven
Rajesh Uppal, executive director - IT, CIO and CHRO, Maruti Suzuki

For Maruti Suzuki, India's largest car manufacturer, the digital transformation journey is currently focused on how to best use the data in the company to derive meaningful insights and make better decisions.

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In an exclusive interview, Rajesh Uppal, executive director - IT, CIO and CHRO, Maruti Suzuki, shares the company's data strategy and how it is working on capturing data from various sources, including shop floor, customer interactions, social media and most recently, its connected car platform, and co-relating it to forecast demand, pre-empt quality issues, understand customer, and plan supply chain. He is also currently building the data lake, which is fundamental to the company's data strategy.

This article was previously published on the DynamicCIO website on Feb. 18, 2019.


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Shipra Malhotra

Shipra Malhotra

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Malhotra has more than two decades of experience in technology journalism and public relations. She writes about enterprise technology and security-related issues and has worked at Biztech2.com, Dataquest and The Indian Express.




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