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XOMNIA B.V.

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X o m n i a T a l e n t s : C a r ee r a c c e l e r a t o r
Early 2015 Xomnia gave birth to Xomnia Talents to offer exciting career possibilities for data
science talents. We recon it is easy to find a cool job for Data Scientists. At the same time, we
know that companies face serious problems in hiring them. Or worse, when engaged, in getting
these bright people fully up and running.
This is primarily caused by the lack of hands-on data science experience at both the organization
and the data scientist level. As a result, companies face major inefficiencies and the data scientist
gets disillusioned. This gap needs to be filled!
Xomnia Talents is powered by Xomnia. Xomnia has a lot of hands-on experience with the full
spectrum of challenging data science projects (from concept to implementation), product
development, and training. Xomnia is very well connected. Both towards universities and talents
as well as to data science related business opportunities. We have access to all facilities todays
data scientist needs and we love to share this!
There are two tracks we offer to accelerate data science careers or to help your organization in
being data driven.

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T r a i n e e s : D a t a Sc i e n c e t r a i n e e s h i p

This program is designed for young data science talents who would like to kick-start their career.
During a one-year intensive program talents work 4 days a week at a clients organization and 1
day at the Xomnia office. The one day at Xomnias office both includes an extensive training
program as well as sharing best practices and experiences between talents and the Xomnia Data
Science team. Once a month a Lead Data Scientist, a senior Data Driven Innovation or a Big Data
Implementation expert is supporting the trainee on premise for coaching purposes. In other
words, the trainee is powered by a lot of expertise.
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R e c r ui t s : R e c r ui t m e nt & s e l e c t i o n a n d o u t p l a c e m e n t

This service is set-up for gifted data scientists and companies that want to support them within
the full spectrum of their job. We tailor this program to each talented individual that wants to
boost his (or her) data science career and to each company that wants to take the next step into
being data driven. Both the recruit as well as the company can count on the same team for
guidance and (technical) facilities that empowers the traineeship. However, on a pure flexible
basis.

Enquiries
In summary, with Xomnia Talents we offer companies and talents to benefit from Xomnias onhands data science experience, knowledge, network, and infrastructure. This is explained in a
little bit more detail in the appendices.
We love to get in touch. For further information or enquiries please contact Xomnia Talents per email at talents@xomnia.com or by phone +31(0)20 772 8425.

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Appendix A: Human guidance

As mentioned Xomnia Talents offers guidance for all talents to support them on their challenging
job from both a business as well as a technical point of view. There are three groups of experts
ready to take the trainee or recruit and your organization to the next level.

X o m n i a s D a t a S c i e n ti s ts

Xomnia has a track record of implementing high scalable real-time machine learning solutions.
We pursue our goals with a team of highly skilled data scientists using the right tools with a solid
background in machine learning and experience in big data related projects. Due to the
experience Xomnias Data Science team gained in projects in different kind of business domains
both corporate as governmental our data scientists are the best mentors for learning the job.

D a t a D r i v e n I n n o v a ti o n
Experts

Xomnias data driven innovation

experts are senior business and
project management consultants
helping organizations create
business value out of Big Data.
Both in B2C and B2B environment
they apply Agile and Lean Startup
principles to develop effective
best practices helping to get the highest potential out of the Big Data projects. The Senior Data
Driven Innovation Experts are available to recruits and talents for the business and project
management domain.
For more information: http://innovationdiggers.com/

B i g D a t a B u s i n es s I mp l e m e n t a t i o n e x p e r t s

Xomnias senior Big Data implementations experts have in-depth experience with both global
Enterprise Big Data implementations as well as implementations at medium sized and corporate
organizations.
Big Data deployments are not isolated but have a major impact on organizations. Their approach
and hands-on experience is focused on a quick and effective implementation of validated
experiments, which take existing processes and systems into account. The business
implementation experts will go beyond the technical part, they also take responsibility for the
complete business alignment and technical integration within the company.
These specialists have extensive experience with implementations in medium and corporate
organizations. They master the aspects of stakeholder management and understand the often
complex technical and architectural issues associated with data driven initiatives.

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Xomnias Big Data Business Implementation experts are ready to support Xomnia Talents recruits
and trainees!
For more information: http://innovationdiggers.com/what-we-do/

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A p p e n d i x B : T ec h n i c a l f a c i l i t i es
Next to the human guidance factor, it is vital for data scientists to be able to have the right
technical fundament to work with. In order to gain maximum organizational benefit Xomnia
Talents offers an extremely powerful technical infrastructure (via SURFsara) as well as a state-ofthe art analytical toolkit.

A c c e s s t o a h i g h p e r fo r m a n c e c o m p u t e r ne t w o r k

Data Scientists are getting confronted with enormous amounts of data that must be processed,
stored and analyzed. In such projects a powerful infrastructure is an necessity. Therefore Xomnia
Talents collaborates with SURFsara. SURFsara offers an integrated ICT research infrastructure and
provide services in the areas of computing, data storage, visualization, networking, cloud and eScience.
Trainees (and recruits on request) at Xomnia Talents will get access to SURFsaras High
Performance Computing (HPC) network and Hadoop Cluster. Thus, they will be able to use the
national supercomputer Cartesius and the national cluster Lisa. Both are fast and efficient tools
enabling trainees at Xomnia Talents to perform complex computations that are beyond the
capacity of "ordinary" computers.
Trainees at Xomnia Talents will also have access to
the SURFsara Hadoop cluster. The currently
configuration is 90 machines with the Hadoopdistribution HDP 2.2. The HDFS-file system is 1.2
PB BIG, and currently ~ 700 processes are parallel
distributed available. MapReduce, Pig, Cascading
en Spark are also available for the Xomnia talents.
The security is Kerberos.
With this state of the art high-tech computer power trainees at Xomnia Talents have the
opportunity to develop their skills on parallel computing. For our clients its also possible and
interesting to access the national supercomputer services provided by SURFsara for research or
pilot purposes. Xomnia Talents provides full service technical support to our clients.

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X o m n i a T a l e n t s M o de r n B i g D a t a A n a l y t i c s P l a t f o r m

Xomnia Talents trainees (and recruits on request) get access to the industry's easiest-to-use state
of the art open source Analytics Platform that significantly accelerates productivity from data
wrangling to predictive action. It is built by data scientists for data scientists, businesses analysts,
and developers.
Unlike complex traditional analytics providers it enables anyone to make the most of their data,
by its ease of use, creating a powerful code free advantage leveraging the wisdom of over
250.000 users. This platform is totally Big Data Proof and Enterprise ready.
This platform is installed on the Hadoop Cluster of SURFsara. Xomnia Talents and our clients can
work for free with the software to extract data out of Hadoop and build predictive models
without any coding.
The Modern Analytics platform data flow:

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A p p e n d i x C : D a t a S c i e n c e T r ai n i n g
This appendix describes a selection of the training possibilities that Xomnia Talents offers. A full
data science training package is part of the trainees 1-year program.
Recruits can join free training possibilities on a frequent basis too such as the two-week Big Data
Fundamentals training program that is part of the trainees program.
This training covers the basics of big data analytics from both a business as well as a technical
perspective. By following this course the talent gets

a proper understanding about the potential of big data

an overview of the different tools and techniques for collecting, saving, analyzing and
visualizing of large (possibly unstructured) data
knowledge that supports the talent in setting up and managing a big data project

Besides, it is a good way to get to know the other Talents, Xomnias data science team, the Data
Driven Innovation experts and the Big Data Implementation experts.
In addition to these free training possibilities recruits are welcome to benefit from any paid
Xomnia training program with a serious discount. If needed, Xomnia delivers tailored in-company
training tracks too.
For a better overview of Xomnias training possibilities, please visit the website:
www.xomnia.com

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Appendix D: Xomnia network

Xomnia is a very well connected company on many levels. You are welcome to join this network!
Xomnia has close ties with several universities, such as VU University and UVA in Amsterdam and
the Radboud University in Nijmegen. This provides direct access to scientific knowledge, talented
students and university related projects and institutions.
Next we have a profound network of business partners. We love to collaborate not only with
companies, large or small, but also with (semi-)governmental organisations. Together we do
research, create new business propositions and deliver end-to-end solutions.
Just like any organization we use numerous tools and software solutions to do our business. With
some of our technical enablers we actively cooperate in business and solution development.
So besides the network youll gain by getting to know Xomnias team and the other talents, we
offer you access to all our business relations to. This will provide you or your organization with a
strong fundament to be benefit from fellow experience and knowledge and it will be a bright start
for future collaborations.
For more information please visit our website: http://www.xomnia.com/partners/

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