Don't Panic! It's Just Data

Organisations who are in the early stages of data analytic maturity struggle with poor data quality, inconsistent processes and lack of co-ordination across their organisation. Also, those organisations with low BI maturity don’t have formal governance programs in place at all. These low maturity organisations often have BI platforms that are more traditional and reporting centric. In this podcast, Ronald van Loon speaks to Ed Thompson, CTO at Matillion about how an organisation can achieve data and analytics maturity.

Firstly, Ed outlines a typical customer experience and how you define data milestone along with the tools needed to start a data journey. Then he explains the challenges of data integration and how businesses maintain data governance over such large amounts of data. Finally, we learn about suitable cloud strategies as well as how to prepare teams to be ready for data, analytics and machine learning.

Across organisations, we see a drive for next-generation systems as organisations require more scalability and flexibility. With these demands comes the need for a change in architecture so that businesses can help develop the next generation of systems and move from traditional relational databases to NoSQL databases. In this podcast, Ronald van Loon speaks to Dr Mohammed Haji, Manager - EMEA North Solutions Engineering at Couchbase and Mritunjay Singh, Principal Solution Architect at BT to understand how NoSQL can transform enterprise application.

Firstly, they discuss NoSQL integration for supporting cloud-native applications, and the key role NoSQL plays in new stack technology. Then they consider how enterprise are using NoSQL to improve data performance and using it to support emerging trends. Also, Mritunjay and Mohammed review how data is categorised compared to SQL and the effect this has on scaling. Finally, they explore what organisations need to focus on when adopting a NoSQL solution to optimise the end result.

All businesses understand that there is real value in data and that it is a strategic asset for all organisations. However, a lot of companies are still struggling to rapidly unlock this value due to a lack of resources and time. In order to capitalise on this, organisations need to have a solid data warehousing solution in place. In this podcast Ronald van Loon speaks with Weelin Lim, Chief Product Officer at TrueCue and Pratim Das, Head of Solutions Architecture, Data and AI at Microsoft to understand the strategic power of data warehousing and people analytics.

Firstly, they address the business challenges that end to end data warehousing, and people analytics can address. Then, Weelin and Pratim discuss what's needed from an organisational, technological, cultural, and team perspective when adopting these solutions and who the SaaS end-to-end data warehousing solution is right for. They also explore the steps organisations need to take to meet the demands of evolving analytics environments and to put a people analytics strategy into practice. Finally, Weelin and Pratim discuss the short term and long term business impact of an end-to-end data warehousing strategy and offer their advice for organisations looking to implement this and a people analytics solution.

Data has become a valuable asset for businesses in every industry. In particular, it enables organisations to fine-tune their strategies, deliver better customer experience, and much more. As a result, cloud has become increasingly commonplace within enterprise environments. Simultaneously, Internet of Things (IoT) has also grown in popularity and will continue to do so as our future becomes increasingly connected.

In light of this, Ronald van Loon, Director at Adversitement, speaks with Hannu Valtonen, VP Product & Co-founder at Aiven, to explore real-time data's role in application development in the cloud. Firstly, Hannu delves into how companies use data in store and in operation for a competitive advantage. He then goes onto outline how organisations can use this to deliver a better customer experience.

Robotic process automation (RPA) has gained significant traction within the last year. However, despite having secured a place in the market, RPA is still fairly new. In light of this, Ronald van Loon speaks with Rob Hughes, VP – Head of Marketing EU at Automation Anywhere to find out more about this exciting technology.

Firstly, Rob defines RPA and what makes it such a hot topic today. In particular, he addresses the confusion between artificial intelligence (AI) and RPA and outlines AI's role in the RPA realm. Then, Rob explores what is driving the increasing popularity of RPA and demonstrates the use cases for it across various industries. Finally, he discusses the challenges associated with RPA implementation and how to deploy it successfully.

Augmented intelligence is driving the well-overdue reevaluation of data models. Michel Morvan at Cosmo Tech and Robert Plana at Assystem join us on this podcast to talk with us about augmented intelligence, as well as Cosmo Tech’s role in it. 

A recent 451 Research survey of enterprise users showed that 84% found at least some of their strategic decisions at their organisations are data-driven. Further to this, the survey found that data is becoming increasingly important to organisations. So, how should companies be acting on their data? Here to lend his expertise on the matter is John Walls at Looker. John shares his thoughts on the opportunities related to self-service analytics and how to deliver the benefits without compromising governance or unified metrics.

Advanced analytics are powering today's decision making and operational efficiency. Today’s organisations can now take advantage of real-time decision making with thanks to newer technologies. However, does this guarantee quality? Joining us in this episode to discuss how to manage the quality of real-time data is Syncsort’s Aisan Baird.