Who is Business Data Technology?
BDT provides Amazonians to store and transform data using Andes Data Lake. Amazon Andes Data Lake currently have about 2.38 exabytes of internal data. BDT has 30+ applications in DataCentral, which is their landing page for apps. They have new 60K active users monthly that grows every day and gets 100,000 new data pipelines every month.
Meeting the needs of different user personas
Regardless of each user's technical acumen, Amazonians are encouraged to learn and use Amazon internal data to generate reports, improve Amazon processes, and create digital products for customers and team members.
I interviewed about 80 Amazon internal users to generate user persona and learn how and why they use BDT. The job functions for using BDT data are Designing data infrastructure, extract data to produce tables and datasets, building internal applications,Creating reports and data analysis to monitor inventory, budgets, and so on. This is an Example of a persona called The data pipeline creator. This describes what they do, what the pain point they face, their goals and motivations.
Summary of personas
The pipeline creator
The value adder
The modeler
The reporter
The automator
The resource manager
The auditor
Overall user journey of a BDT user when they are using DataCentral.
BDT user journey
Document each user persona's journey to study which part of DataCentral each persona uses the most.
Each persona's user journey
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