Shaku Atre Explained

Shaku Atre
Birth Place:India
Birth Name:Shakuntala Atre
Nationality:Indian
Education:University of Poona
University of Heidelberg
Occupation:Scientist, businesswoman

Shakuntala (Shaku) Atre (born 1940) is an Indian data scientist and an American business woman. After a fourteen-year career with IBM, she began her own firm and became widely regarded as an expert on business technology and database use. Atre is best known for her books Database: Structured Techniques for Design, Performance and Management: With Case Studies (1980), one of the first books written on managing databases, and her co-authored book Business Intelligence Roadmap, written with Larissa Moss. She has served as an adjunct professor of data science at University of Pune and at several institutions in the United States. Her works have been used as university textbooks.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Early life and education

Atre was born in 1940 in India and grew up in Panvel, a village near Mumbai.[7] She earned a Master of Science from the University of Poona, studying mathematics and statistics.[8] [9] During her education, she also studied languages, gaining proficiency in speaking five different languages.[1] Atre went on to begin her graduate studies in mathematics and physics at the University of Heidelberg, writing her thesis on astronomy.[9] [10] Because she needed to make large scale calculations to develop her thesis, she began studying computer programming, which led to an interest in the field of computer technology.[9] [11] During her studies, she was hired by IBM in 1967. When her student visa expired three and a half years later, Atre and her husband immigrated to the United States.[1] [9]

Career

When they arrived in New York City in 1971, IBM had implemented a hiring freeze, but Atre was able to convince them she was not a new hire because she had worked for the company in Germany.[1] They put her on staff as a systems programmer[1] and she worked for the company for the next ten years, moving up the ladder from installation and technical support, to trainer in IBM's Systems Institute, to branch office systems engineer and finally, as a program manager for international product releases.[1] [9] During her tenure at IBM, from 1977 to 1981, she served as one of the referees for the company’s Systems Journal, selecting which articles would be peer-reviewed for the publication.[12] In 1980, she published Data Base: Structured Techniques for Design, Performance, and Management with Case Studies, which would be used as a university textbook. It was translated into several different languages and had sold more than 150,000 copies within its first two decades of publication.[1] During this period, she also began teaching as an adjunct professor at various universities, including the Polytechnic Institute of New York.[13]

In the last quarter of 1981, Atre left IBM and began operating her own business consulting firm and working part-time managing long-distance telephone databases for AT&T.[1] [9] The following year, she began writing articles for Computerworld, which in 2003 would become a regular column for the magazine.[1] [14] Her book Data Base Management Systems for the Eighties was published in 1983, and provided a discussion of eight different data systems, comparing features and business applications to assist readers in analyzing which systems best met their needs.[15] [16] From 1984, her expert opinion of various data systems was regularly sought by trade magazines, such as Infosystems,[17] MIS Week,[18] Network World,[19] and Software News, among others.[20]

In 1988, Atre sold her firm, Atre International Consultants, of Rye, New York to Computer Assistance, Inc. of Hartford, Connecticut. She was retained as president of Atre International, which operated as a branch of Computer Assistance, and became a consultant to the fifteen other national branches of the firm.[21] The firm was acquired by Coopers Lybrand in 1989[1] [22] and the following year, she negotiated a joint-venture with Intec, Inc. a software firm from Mumbai to develop utilities and training programs for use with Windows 3.[23] In 1991, Atre published Distributed Databases, Cooperative Processing, and Networking, which became the basis for a series of seminars of the same name, which she presented at the Technology Transfer Institute in 1992.[24] She became a contributing editor to the journal DBMS in 1994.[25]

In 1998, Atre relocated to Santa Cruz, California, where her son had begun a web-based business, using her name-recognition in the industry to start his firm. From her new location, Atre operated both Atre Group, Inc. and Atre Associates. In 2003, she co-authored with Larissa Moss the book, Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications, which became frequently cited for its practical advice to business managers on how to integrate strategic company goals and varied business applications through database management.[26] [27] [28] That same year, Atre and Robert Blumberg, president of Blumberg Consulting, were hired by DM Review magazine to publish a five-part series of articles on business intelligence. The articles were designed to give information to business managers on how unstructured data could be transformed into usable content for their industries.[29]

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. News: Iacuessa . Michael . Organization Woman: New Book Covers Care, Feeding of Data . 10 May 2022 . . 10 December 2002 . Santa Cruz, California . 30 . Newspapers.com.
  2. Book: Byte . 1980 . McGraw-Hill . 197 . en.
  3. Book: Halper . Stanley D. . Handbook of EDP Auditing . 1985 . Warren, Gorham & Lamont . 978-0-88712-267-5 . 2 . en.
  4. Book: Conley . Diane . Peterson's Annual Guides to Graduate Study . 1981 . Peterson's Guides, Incorporated . 978-0-87866-218-0 . 372 . en.
  5. Book: Chernow . Barbara Ann . Vallasi . George A. . Durbin . Paul T. . Kaplan . Fred . Charney . Maurice . Kaufman . Paula T. . The Reader's Adviser: A Layman's Guide to Literature . 1986 . R.R. Bowker . 978-0-8352-2149-8 . 149 . en.
  6. Book: Handbook of EDP Auditing: Cumulative supplement . 1988 . Warren, Gorham & Lamont . 978-0-7913-0198-2 . 51 . en.
  7. Web site: Atre . Shaku . Memoirs . worldwomanwarrior.com . 11 February 2016 . 10 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190421035510/https://www.worldwomanwarrior.com/memoirs/ . 21 April 2019 . live.
  8. Book: Catalog: 1981-1983 . 1983 . Computer Science: Adjunct Faculty . 89 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20210427220042/http://bulletin.engineering.nyu.edu/mime/media/15/703/Catalog+1981-1983.pdf . 27 April 2021 . Brooklyn, New York . live.
  9. Snyders . Jan . Create That Opportunity: An Interview with Shaku Atre, President of Atre International Consultants, Inc. . Infosystems . October 1984 . 31 . 10 . 104 . 11 May 2022 . Hitchcock Publishing Co. . Wheaton, Illinois . 0364-5533.
  10. News: Dinner Meeting . 10 May 2022 . . 4 February 1982 . Port Chester, New York . 31 . Newspapers.com.
  11. Stoltenberg . John . Turning Problems into Profits . . May 1988 . 13 . 5 . 63–64, 68–69 . 11 May 2022 . Hal Publications . New York, New York . 0145-5761.
  12. Referees . IBM Systems Journal . 1981 . 20 . 3 . 365 . 10 May 2022 . International Business Machines Corporation . Yorktown Heights, New York . 10.1147/sj.203.0365 . 0018-8670.
  13. Radding . Alan . The Education of an Expert . . 2 May 1988 . 22 . 18 . 74 . 11 May 2022 . C W Communications Inc. . Framingham, Massachusetts . 0010-4841.
  14. Atre . S. . End-User Designed/Driven Data Bases . . 1 September 1982 . 17 . 35a . 61–63 . 11 May 2022 . C W Communications Inc. . Framingham, Massachusetts . 0010-4841.
  15. Data Dictionary, DBMS Guides Out from QED . . 21 March 1983 . 17 . 12 . 28 . 10 May 2022 . C W Communications Inc. . Framingham, Massachusetts . 0010-4841.
  16. QED Sciences Releases Reports on Software . . 28 March 1983 . 17 . 13 . 31 . 10 May 2022 . C W Communications Inc. . Framingham, Massachusetts . 0010-4841.
  17. Snyders . Jan . Let's Talk DBMS . Infosystems . December 1984 . 31 . 12 . 36, 38, 40 . 11 May 2022 . Hitchcock Publishing Co. . Wheaton, Illinois . 0364-5533.
  18. Conlon . Theresa . 'Ramis/PC Workstation' Bows . MIS Week . 16 March 1987 . 8 . 11 . 35 . 11 May 2022 . Fairchild Publications . New York, New York . 0199-8838.
  19. Cummings . Joanne . Analysts Contemplate Office of the Future . Network World . 11 January 1993 . 10 . 2 . 95 . 11 May 2022 . . Framingham, Massachusetts . 0887-7661.
  20. Update on Mid-Range DBMS Players . Software News . November 1987 . 7 . 12 . 64, 66–67 . 11 May 2022 . Sentry Publishing Company Inc. . Westborough, Massachusetts . 0279-9782.
  21. Computer Assistance Buys Atre . . 25 January 1988 . 22 . 4 . 30 . 10 May 2022 . C W Communications Inc. . Framingham, Massachusetts . 0010-4841.
  22. Brown . Jim . CA Uncovers Details of Its Distributed DBMS Strategy . Network World . 18 September 1989 . 6 . 37 . 7 . 11 May 2022 . . Framingham, Massachusetts . 0887-7661.
  23. Bride . Ed . et al . Atre, Indian Firm Form Joint Venture . . November 1991 . 11 . 13 . 14 . Rockport Custom Publishing, LLC . Beverly, Massachusetts . .
  24. Explaining Emerging Database Technologies . . 12 October 1992 . 9 . 41 . 51 . 10 May 2022 . C W Communications Inc. . Framingham, Massachusetts . 0887-7661.
  25. DBMS . DBMS . October 1994 . 7 . 11 . 12 . 11 May 2022 . . San Francisco, California . 1041-5173.
  26. Serghie . Dan . Balan . Ana Maria . Business Intelligence Systems in the business strategy - an approach to the Romanian reality . Studies and Scientific Researches . 2010 . 15 . Economic . 453 . 10 May 2022 . . Bacău, Romania . 2066-561X.
  27. Bustamante Martínez . Alexander Armando . et al . Soluciones de inteligencia de negocios en la práctica: apoyo a la toma de decisiones en proyectos educativos para población infantil vulnerable en el caribe Colombiano . UIS Ingenierías . December 2011 . 10 . 2 . 126 . 10 May 2022 . Business Intelligence Solutions in Practice: Support for Decision-Making in Educational Projects for Vulnerable Children in the Colombian Caribbean . . Bucaramanga, Colombia . https://web.archive.org/web/20180416102010/http://revistas.uis.edu.co/index.php/revistauisingenierias/article/download/125-135/3145/ . 16 April 2018 . Spanish . 1657-4583 . 8207461276 . live.
  28. Book: Loshin . David . Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide . 2012 . . Waltham, Massachusetts . 978-0-12-385890-0 . 53 . 2nd.
  29. News: Atre, Blumberg to Publish Series in DM Review . . 23 January 2003 . .

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