Making Sense of Esports Data, with Milan Cerny of SAP - HIVE Berlin

Global enterprise software company SAP made waves in the industry last spring when it announced a partnership with Team Liquid to provide in-depth Dota 2 analytics using its HANA data platform. Since then, SAP has made partnerships with tournament operators such as ESL, DreamHack, and PGL. "In the end, it's not about the amount of data anymore. It's about finding the relevant bits and pieces of it.", said Milan Cerny, SAP's property owner and innovation lead for esports. Q&A: 00:13 // Having worked with Team Liquid, where do you see the market for team-focused data tools? 01:43 // SAP is heavily involved in Dota 2. What value can a specific game community provide? 03:07 // What are the key similarities between how SAP measures sports and esports data? 5:00 // What is the biggest lesson you've learned since entering esports? Follow Milan at: https://twitter.com/othermilan ► Follow us at: https://www.twitter.com/esportsobserved https://www.instagram.com/esportsobserver/ https://www.facebook.com/esportsobserver ► More TEO: Podcast: https://esportsobserver.com/teo-podcast/ News App: https://apple.co/2MfLhye Homepage: https://www.esportsobserver.com