This document discusses how telecommunications companies can use big data to improve their business. It notes that currently telecom networks generate a lot of data but it is stored in silos and only a small percentage is analyzed. The document advocates building a user-centric data architecture to better understand subscribers and their usage patterns. This involves ingesting different data sources into a flexible system like Pivotal HD and then analyzing the data. The goals are to provide customized tracking and predictive insights to enterprise, individual and internal customers in order to improve customer experience, marketing and network performance.