Drill to Detail

Mark Rittman is joined on this episode by Branchworks CEO Eleanor Thompson to talk about partner programs, partner portals and the role partnerships play in making data analytics initiatives a success.

Branchworks homepage : Activating Partnerships for Revenue Growth

CastorDoc case study

Eleanor Thompson LinkedIn Profile

In this episode of the Drill to Detail Podcast Mark Rittman is joined by special guest Tom Gardiner, CEO @ Embeddable.com to talk about Embeddable's mission to create the leading developer toolkit for building fast, interactive customer-facing analytics directly into your product in partnership with Cube.dev and Rittman Analytics.

Trevor.io

Embeddable.com

Why Embeddable?

Embeddable and Cube - Easy Embedded Analytics for Everyone

Embeddable & Rittman Analytics

Facility Solutions Group case study

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Greg McKeon, Staff Product Manager at dbt Labs to talk about their recent acquisition of SDF Labs, the vision for dbt as the control plane for data collaboration at-scale and the upcoming drag-and-drop Visual Editor that’s soon to be part of dbt Cloud.

dbt Cloud: The control plane for data collaboration at scale

About the Visual Editor

Coalesce 2024 and the Launch of dbt’s Visual Editing Experience

dbt Labs Acquires SDF Labs to Introduce Robust SQL Comprehension into dbt and Supercharge Developer Efficiency

Drill to Detail Ep.115 ‘Airbnb, DataOps and SQLMesh’s Data Engineering Innovation’ with Special Guest Toby Mao

In this episode, Sean Zinsmeister from Google joins Mark Rittman to discuss the latest developments for Looker including the integration of Looker Studio, new modeling capabilities and the exciting potential of generative AI for BI.

We discuss how Looker is evolving to be a more open, composable platform that can power advanced analytics and data storytelling, with Sean sharing insights on Google's purpose-built Gemini models for natural language to SQL translation and how Looker customers can leverage these AI capabilities. 

We also explore Looker's agentic API strategy, the long-term vision of using Looker Studio as the primary Looker front-end and the opening up of LookML to tools beyond just Looker. 

Driving Looker customer innovations in the generative AI era

Previewing Studio in Looker, the (Eventual) Future of Self-Service Reporting for Looker

Looker now available from Google Cloud console

Delivering the third wave of BI in the AI era with Looker

Drill to Detail Ep.100 Special ‘Past, Present and Future of the Modern Data Stack’ with Special Guests Keenan Rice, Stewart Bryson and Jake Stein

Drill to Detail Ep. 73 'Luck, Thinking Different and Designing Looker Data Platform' with Special Guest Colin Zima

Join Mark Rittman in this special end-of-year episode as he speaks with Noel Gomez, co-founder of DataCoves about the challenges and opportunities of orchestrating dbt and other tools within the open-source Modern Data Stack, navigating the evolving semantic layer landscape and the future of modular, vendor-agnostic data solutions.

Datacoves Platform Overview

Build vs Buy Analytics Platform: Hosting Open-Source Tools

Scale the benefits of Core with dbt Cloud

Dagster vs. Airflow

Mark is joined in this episode by Johan Baltzar, previously Product Analytics Manager at Spotify and now co-founder and CEO at Steep to talk about the role analytics played in Spotify’s growth story, the startup scene in Stockholm, Sweden and Steep’s metrics-first approach to user-centric business analytics.

The Kry founders factory: Meet 15 employees-turned-founders

Steep homepage

New in Steep : Cube and dbt  

Targets & BI - How hard can it be?

Mark is joined in this latest Drill to Detail episode by Tobias (Toby) Mao, CTO and co-Founder at Tobiko Data to talk about SQLGlot, the innovation culture at Airbnb and the data engineering challenges solved by SQLMesh.

SQLGlot

Introducing Minerva — Airbnb’s Metric Platform

SQLMesh homepage

Tobiko Cloud

Running dbt in SQLMesh

dbt Mesh

Dlt (Data Load Tool)

Mark is joined in this episode by Christian Steinert to talk about his solo journey building Steinert Analytics, a data analytics consultancy transforming data into actionable revenue and cost-saving insights for Central Ohio's SaaS startups.

Steinert Analytics homepage

Christian Steinert LinkedIn Profile

“Helping a Roofing Company Define Their Sales Process”

“Transforming a Top 5 Fast Food Company's Operational Drive-Thru Reporting”

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Ethan Aaron, Founder & CEO of Portable, to talk about what you should do if you’re the first data hire at a company, when and when not to hire a consultant, the founding story of Portable.io and the long tail (and economic model) of the data integration connectors market.

Ethan Aaron LinkedIn Profile

Portable.io Homepage

“The biggest misconceptions about data integrations..” (LinkedIn)

“You join a 100 person company as the head of data. What should you do?” (LinkedIn)

“The stuff no one will tell you about running a data team” (LinkedIn)

Mark Rittman is joined by returning guest David Jayatillake, VP of AI at Cube.dev, to talk about Delphi Labs’ journey from a standalone data analytics chatbot to now becoming the basis of Cube’s new AI features within its composable semantic model product.

Drill to Detail Ep.102 'LLMs, Semantic Models and Bringing AI to the Modern Data Stack' with Special Guest David Jayatillake

Drill to Detail Ep.107 'Cube, Headless BI and the AI Semantic Layer' with Special Guest Artyom Keydunov

Introducing the AI API and Chart Prototyping in Cube Cloud

A Practical Guide to Getting Started with Cube's AI API

Cube Rollup London : Bringing Cube Users Together