Viewing data as a liquid asset
SVB Analytics负责人Steve Allan分享了他对数据分析角色变化的看法，认为数据分析已从竞争优势变为企业必备的基础能力，并介绍了SVB如何在全公司部署可视化工具以提升数据可及性。
In an interview, Steve Allan, who joined SVB Financial Group in 2008 to run SVB Analytics, discusses what has changed in analytics since he joined SVB. Allan says analytics used to be a competitive advantage, and says it is now becoming table stakes. He says it is something companies just need to have to execute on the business competitively. He says SVB has gone from experimenting with some analytics tools to deploying one visualization tool across the entire enterprise so every person has access to data reports and the ability to look at the data from the exact viewpoint they would like. SVB Financial Group has $40 billion in assets and offices in the U.S., U.K., Israel, and China, and is the holding company of Silicon Valley Bank. Its analytics unit, SVB Analytics, supports SVB and its clients, which include half the venture-backed technology and life science companies in the U.S. It offers 409A compliance services to help private companies to value employee stock options, as well as provides strategic advisory services to help companies and their investors to benchmark key operational and valuation statistics.