We’re excited to bring you a brand-new episode of Executive Spotlight, our special series where we sit down with business and industry leaders who are redefining the future of data-driven innovation. In this episode, we’re joined by Ravi Shankar, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Denodo, and Andrew Milroy, Chief Analyst at Veqtor8. Together, they explore how organizations are maximizing their ROI with Denodo, accelerating insights, and achieving AI readiness alongside modern data lakehouse architectures. Andrew shares his findings from his recent white paper, “The ROI of Using the Denodo Platform alongside the Modern Data Lakehouse,” highlighting how enterprises worldwide are realizing significant financial and operational gains by combining Denodo’s logical data management with leading lakehouse platforms like Snowflake and Databricks.

💡 Key Insights from This Episode: 

• Unlocking ROI: How enterprises achieved a remarkable 345% ROI over three years, saving millions in data management costs.
• Engineering Efficiency: Why organizations using Denodo reduced data integration effort by 75% and accelerated delivery of insights.
• Infrastructure Optimization: How avoiding data duplication led to over 60% cost savings across systems.
• Faster Insights: How logical data management enables 3–4x faster time-to-insight compared to traditional approaches.
• Governance and Trust: Why integrated governance and metadata management reduced compliance costs by 77%.
• AI Readiness: How Denodo’s logical layer delivers trusted, real-time, AI-ready data to power advanced analytics and innovation. 

Tune in to hear how Denodo empowers enterprises to cut costs, accelerate insights, and unlock AI potential - all while maximizing the value of their existing lakehouse investments.