TIKET . COM
Maria Tjahjadi , VP of Data Analytics at tiket . com discusses the company ’ s use of data , becoming agents of change and driving a data driven culture
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W ith over 10 years ’ experience with data and data analytics , Maria Tjahjadi is the current VP of Data Analytics at tiket . com . “ I joined the data industry by accident , I never planned to take this route , when I graduated from school , I had one dream to become an ERP consultant . But I couldn ’ t find any suitable companies , so after 3 months , I decided to switch my career . I started my career as a business intelligence consultant in a technology consulting company . It was after becoming a business intelligence consultant that I realized there was a lot of opportunity in the data industry as at that time , people didn ’ t really understand how to use generated insights from the data .”
Over the years , Maria has seen the data industry change drastically . “ Start from the evolution of big data . It started when we realised huge amounts of data were being generated by internet users and the data processing was not only for structured data , but also involved
JUNE 2020