{"id":13941,"date":"2019-10-24T15:17:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=13941"},"modified":"2019-10-24T15:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:17:04","slug":"big-data-in-kazakhstan-press-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/big-data-in-kazakhstan-press-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data in Kazakhstan: press review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Big Data technologies are gradually entering the Kazakh market. Large companies use solutions based on them, schools of big data analysts open, state projects on digitalization are launched. A lot of materials on this topic have been published in the local media this year, here are the main ones.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Analysts schools<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaspi Bank, a retail-focused lender, has been training analysts since 2014 as part of the Kaspi Lab project. There is a story about it from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/the-steppe.com\/razvitie\/professiya-budushchego-kak-gotovyat-data-analitikov-v-kaspi-lab\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Steppe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In April, Alfa Bank launched <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/esquire.kz\/shkola-big-data-almaty\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alfa Data School<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to train big data analysts. Key elements of the training plan are the following: machine learning, an introduction to data analysis and Data Engineering. \u0421urrent bank experts, as well as representatives of partner companies (SAP, Informatica, Prime Source, IBM) teach in this school. In May, Alfa Bank also organized the first <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hirebee.kz\/hbmedia\/alfa-data-school\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alfa Data Meet Up<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which brought together more than 50 beginners in data analytics and experts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In October, Beeline to open the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeline.kz\/almaty\/about\/pr\/press-releases\/details\/987150\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Big Data School<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to train big data experts. The program includes the study of Apache Spark, Hadoop, Scala, NiFi, NoSQL, etc. Recruitment to the school is carried out according to the results of testing, training is free.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Big data in banks and companies<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the beginning of the year, Beeline and the First Credit Bureau <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeline.kz\/almaty\/about\/pr\/press-releases\/details\/986741\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">entered into an agreement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on scoring and verification services. Now, when applying for a loan, bank customers will be able to request data on the use of cellular services from the operator. This will allow you to obtain loans even if you don&#8217;t have a credit history.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alfa Bank is going to implement <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeline.kz\/almaty\/about\/pr\/press-releases\/details\/986741\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Informatica Data Quality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a data quality solution. It is expected that it will help to standardize data, enrich it, identify and remove duplicates, and build data quality management processes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kazakh microfinance organizations began to create a digital client profile that helps evaluate the solvency and protects against fraud, the newspaper Kursiv <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kursiv.kz\/news\/finansy\/2019-08\/kak-kreditory-ispolzuyut-cifrovoy-sled-kazakhstancev\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">writes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Expert Opinion<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kuanysh Abeshev, Dean of the AlmaU School of Engineering Management, said in an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bluescreen.kz\/tech\/kogda-kazahstanskomu-biznesu-zhdat-p\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interview<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> what needs to be done to more actively develop big data in Kazakhstan.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kapital.kz correspondents attended the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kapital.kz\/business\/77829\/est-li-buducshee-u-iot-i-bigdata-v-kazahstane.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">K-Tech 2019 conference<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to learn more about the future of big data and the IoT in Kazakhstan.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asem Nurgaliyeva, executive director of First Credit Bureau, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kursiv.kz\/opinions\/2019-05\/pochemu-dannye-tekhnologii-i-gr-stali-osnovoy-kreditnogo-biznesa-v-rk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">explained<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> why data, technology and GR (government relations) became the basis of the credit business in Kazakhstan.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sergey Akhmetov, CEO at Marketo.kz, wrote an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kapital.kz\/tehnology\/71257\/big-data-v-kazahstane-o-krupnom-zakazchike-kadrah-i-perspektivah.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">article <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for Kapital.kz about who processes big data in Kazakhstan and why. In short: there are no serious achievements in this field in the country, the main requisitioners are the state and big business, the market itself is very promising.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maksat Nuridenululy, Managing Director of&nbsp; Alfa Bank Kazakhstan, dispels <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forbes.kz\/process\/technologies\/6_mifov_o_bolshih_dannyih_chto_meshaet_biznesu_zarabotat_na_big_data\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">myths about big data<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yevgeny Shcherbinin, CEO at Prime Source, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kursiv.kz\/opinions\/2019-05\/cifrovoy-nasos\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">told <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what needs to be done to reduce costs, provide analysis, forecasting and big data management for business.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ekaterina Rehert, Data Scientist at Kolesa Group, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kursiv.kz\/opinions\/2019-05\/malyy-biznes-i-bolshie-dannye\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">explained<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that small businesses have the same chances of successfully using big data as big ones.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ilya Egorov, Chief Digital Officer at Technodom, in his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kapital.kz\/expert\/77747\/data-science-neotemlemaya-chast-vedeniya-biznesa.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interview<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> told why data science is an integral part of doing business today.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-13941 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Kenyan FinTech startup launches financial education academy'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/kenyan-fintech-startup-launches-financial-education-academy\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/kenyan-fintech-startup-launches-financial-education-academy-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-12469\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-12469'>\n\t\t\t\tKenyan FinTech startup launches financial education academy\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='BFC FinTech Monitor (1st \u2014 15th April)'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bfc-fintech-monitor-1st-15th-april\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/184508e0-4667-4f0a-be41-b299f01f186a1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-15976\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-15976'>\n\t\t\t\tBFC FinTech Monitor (1st \u2014 15th April)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='President signs restrictions for online loans'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/president-signs-restrictions-for-online-loans\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/filmstrip-regulation-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-6925\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-6925'>\n\t\t\t\tPresident signs restrictions for online loans\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Data technologies are gradually entering the Kazakh market. Large companies use solutions based on them, schools of big data analysts open, state projects on digitalization are launched. A lot of materials on this topic have been published in the local media this year, here are the main ones. &nbsp; Analysts schools Kaspi Bank, a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,76],"tags":[197,49,427],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13942,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13941\/revisions\/13942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}