OAK 20618 Business Intelligence Study

Hagen/Sinclair Research is looking for business and IT professionals in the San Francisco and Seattle areas to participate in a PAID GROUP about data warehousing and analytics solutions.

INCENTIVE: As a thank you for participating, those who complete the group will be paid $350.

DATE/TIME: The groups will take place March 27 (San Francisco) and March 29, 2018 (Seattle).

FORMAT: 2-hour focus groups.

If you are interested in participating, please provide the following information. If your answers pre-qualify you for the study, one of our recruiters will call you to complete the screening process.

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* 1. Demographics: We ask for your industry in order to send you appropriate studies that relate to your profession. We ask your address so we can send your incentive payment.

First Name:

Last Name:

Email Address:

Address:

City:

State:

ZIP:

Cell Phone:

Occupation:

Industry:

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* 2. Which of the following describes your company’s total annual revenue?

Less than $100M

$101M-$250M

$251M-$500M

$501M – $750M

$751 – $999M

$1B +

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* 3. What is your company’s industry?

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* 4. Which best describes your title level?

Manager

Sr. Manager

Director

VP / SVP

Chief

Other (please specify)

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* 5. How many people report directly to you?

I have no direct reports

1-5

6 or more

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* 6. Which best describes your primary role? (Check one.)

Analytics

Applications Management

Business Intelligence

Business Operations

Data Science

Data Engineering

Data Operations

Data Strategy

Data Warehousing

DevOps

Enterprise architecture

Infrastructure/hardware

Networking

IT Operations

IT Project Management

IT Security

IT Systems or user support

Other (please specify)

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* 7. To which area of business do you report directly?

Line of business

Technology / IT

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* 8. What is your exact title?

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* 9. Please describe your role as it relates to data warehousing.

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* 10. Which of the following tasks do you or your team perform weekly? Please check all that apply.

Manage the hardware and software supporting databases or big data systems (e.g. Hadoop)--patching, upgrades, monitoring, etc.

Tune and optimize database configuration and queries

Write SQL queries

Write data queries not using SQL (e.g. Spark, MapReduce, etc.)

Build reports and dashboards

Use BI and/or analytics tools

Develop SaaS platforms

None of the above

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* 11. Do you or others in your company use SQL or SQL tools to work with data?

Yes

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* 12. What types of data do you store or analyze?

Structured data (such as sales, conversions, revenue, costs, inventory, shipping, etc.)

Semi-structured data (such as JSON, Avro, XML)

Unstructured data (such as text, audio, video, social media, etc.)

All of the above

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* 13. Which of the following best describes your involvement in the purchase of data warehouse solutions?

Make the decision yourself

Make the decision with one or two colleagues

Provide critical input to the decision, but the decision is made by others

Have no involvement in the purchase decision

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* 14. Which of the following software do you currently use? (Please check all that apply.)

Amazon Redshift

Cloudera

Databricks

Datarific

Google Big Query

Hortonworks

Hadoop

HP Vertica

IBM Dash DB

IBM Netezza

Infobright

Instantia Data Systems

MAPR

MarkLogic

Microsoft Azure Data Warehouse

Oracle data warehousing platform

Qubole

SAP

Snowflake

Splunk

Teradata

Other (please specify)

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* 15. What is your biggest challenge with data warehousing?

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* 16. Please enter your LinkedIn address link if you have one

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* 1. Demographics: We ask for your industry in order to send you appropriate studies that relate to your profession. We ask your address so we can send your incentive payment.

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* 2. Which of the following describes your company’s total annual revenue?

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* 3. What is your company’s industry?

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* 4. Which best describes your title level?

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* 5. How many people report directly to you?

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* 6. Which best describes your primary role? (Check one.)

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* 7. To which area of business do you report directly?﻿

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* 8. What is your exact title?

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* 9. Please describe your role as it relates to data warehousing. ﻿

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* 10. Which of the following tasks do you or your team perform weekly? Please check all that apply.﻿

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* 11. Do you or others in your company use SQL or SQL tools to work with data?

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* 12. What types of data do you store or analyze?

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* 13. Which of the following best describes your involvement in the purchase of data warehouse solutions?

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* 14. Which of the following software do you currently use? (Please check all that apply.)

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* 15. What is your biggest challenge with data warehousing?

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* 16. Please enter your LinkedIn address link if you have one

* 7. To which area of business do you report directly?

* 9. Please describe your role as it relates to data warehousing.

* 10. Which of the following tasks do you or your team perform weekly? Please check all that apply.