As businesses endeavour to effectively action their data, business intelligence (BI) software and analytics operating systems have become all the more important and cherished. Not only do BI software fulfil their purpose of helping companies attain useful business insights, but they can also support flexibility and strengthen governance. Joining Ronald van Loon and EM360 to lend his BI expertise is Ian Macdonald, Principal Technologist at Pyramid Analytics. Firstly, Ian gives a comprehensive introduction to analytics operating systems, before giving an overview of the BI market. He also delves into the improved work capabilities that BI provides to businesses, how BI can improve remote work experiences for employees, and how it helps employees achieve unique goals within their individual roles. Furthermore, Ian outlines the challenges businesses face when creating analytics environments within their organisation. He also advises on the technologies and organisational processes needed to successfully implement analytics.

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S4E9: The Power of an Analytics Operating System

When an organisation talks about data integration, there are a lot of hurdles to overcome. To achieve results they need to make sure their data is of high quality, organised and formatted. However, this is easier said than done as data engineers are trying to extract data from an ever-changing source. With cloud-based applications and siloed data, it raises a lot of questions as to how to achieve a unified view and gain insightful analytics. In this podcast, Ronald van Loon speaks to Mark Maxwell, Head of UKI Strategic Sales at Fivetran. Firstly, Mark outlines why an organisation should incorporate data integration into their analytic strategy. Then he explains what key decisions are needed for data warehousing and their workloads and analytics processes. Also, Mark demonstrates what a typical automated data integration process involves when an organisation is starting this journey. Finally, he looks at how this solution can help teams focus on analytics over ETL.

S4E8: Data Integration and Analysis

Data pipelines are becoming a quintessential part of every organisation that is wanting to be data fluent. This means DataOps is becoming increasingly more important in this process as it is used by analytic and data teams, to improve quality and reduce the cycle time of data analytics. However, now organisations are facing unprecedented challenges with current events and widespread lockdown. It's important to understand how to guide DataOps teams through these rapid changes and uncertainties so that data can remain functional. In this podcast, Ronald van Loon speaks to Suki Dhuphar, EMEA Field Engineering Lead at Tamr. Firstly, Suki outlines the challenges that DataOps teams face with remote work and how to overcome these challenges. Then he explains how DataOps teams streamline their data engineering processes once they're equipped with the right tools. Also, Suki explains how a remote work environment impacts an organisations data pipeline and creating a culture that is adaptable. Finally, he explains the best practices needed to help increase data and analytics efficiency for transitioning processes.

S4E7: Guiding DataOps Teams Through Rapid Change and Uncertainty

For organisations of any size, data management is key and data virtualisation is the next logical step in making that a reality. The role that data virtualisation plays within data management is to bridge the gap between IT and the business. This allows the combination of data in real-time and allows for true business transformation, so that the data is available to everybody while keeping it secure, allowing users or other applications to gain the access and insights they need. In this podcast, Ronald van Loon speaks to Paul Moxon, Senior SVP of Data Architecture & Chief Evangelist, Charles Southwood, Regional VP – Northern Europe & MEA at Denodo and Sylvain Dutilh – Principal BI Administrator at Landsbankinn. They discuss the vital role data virtualisation plays in modern data management and accelerating digital transformation strategies. Also, how this promotes a culture of data democratisation across an organisation. Next, they explore some interesting case studies and also discuss why data fabric is a key resource in improving exploration and discovery. Finally, they look at typical data virtualisation deployment scenarios and the next steps within the context of an organisation’s data journey.

S4E6: Modern Data Management Enabled by Data Virtualisation

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.

S4E5: How to Manage your Data and Analytics Journey

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.

S4E4: Transforming Enterprise Application through NoSQL

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.

S4E3: The Strategic Power of Data Warehousing and People Analytics

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.

S4E2: How Real-Time Data Supports Application Development in the Cloud

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, Automation Anywhere (https://www.automationanywhere.com/uk/)  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.

S4E1: The Evolution and Revolution of RPA Today

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.  For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

S3E11: How is Data Transforming Business? An Augmented Intelligence Podcast with Cosmo Tech

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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

S3E10: How Business Intelligence and AI Are Powering Today’s Data-Driven Organisations

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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

S3E9: Enabling Real-Time Data Management For The Modern Enterprise

Big data, IoT, and cloud are just three technologies that encourage businesses to become more data-driven. More and more organisations are recognising the benefits of leveraging data for strategic advantage. However, this boom in data has uncovered an IT skills gap, leaving business-centric staff trying their hand at filling it. Fortunately, the tools available today are easy to use, taking some of the burden off. Chris Maddox at Paxata and Jean-Luc Chatelain at Accenture, a key partner of Paxata, join us to talk about these tools. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

S3E8: Data Preparation and Advanced Analytics - How Data Practitioners Are Changing the Landscape

The promise of the public cloud has instead paved the way for inconvenient costs. This is a result of applications becoming more refined, leaving companies wondering where to deploy them. Does this mean that private cloud is the way forward? Joining us in this episode to talk public versus private is JR Rivers, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Cumulus Networks. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

S3E7: Cloudy Skies Lie Ahead - The Question Is: Public or Private?

In today’s rapidly-changing technological environment, data offers new ways for business to improve or even completely transform business models. But with this rapid change, it’s difficult to separate hype from reality and determine what practical steps can show value in real-world implementations. In this podcast series, we set out to ask, how is Data transforming business? Expect to hear opinions from leading tech vendors and the people who rely on data for day-to-day business such as Barclays Bank, Mastercard and DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team

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