Data Transforming Business

Analytical data is the beating heart of enterprise. It's the critical information we collect to improve customer relations, make better business decisions, and find growth opportunities. But to get it business-ready requires careful consideration and preparation for the right analytics solution. Where There's Data, There's Growth and Profitability In this podcast, Susan Walsh, Founder and MD of The Classification Guru, walks through the practice of transforming business data through analytics with Glen Rabie, CEO at Yellowfin, and Dan Schafer, Senior Database Administrator at Rocknel. Learn from the experts how to simplify complex data and transform spreadsheet data for better business use, ways to approach different data sets more effectively, and how to tackle user-adoption problems head-on. Key Learnings: What organisations should pay most attention to when selecting a data analytics tool, especially from an implementation perspective The importance of supporting an organisation after an analysis tool ha

Instant analytics and reporting culminate in the new open-source, column-oriented DBMS, ClickHouse. The system has grown to be one of the most popular database projects, with thousands of users generating analytical reports via real-time SQL queries since it publicly launched in 2016 following an 8 year internal testing period with Yandex. When faced with trillions of rows of data and the need to filter, explore, and interact with it, ClickHouse is the solution for businesses. ClickHouse is the Future of Analytics and Reporting In this podcast, Scott Taylor, Principal Consultant at MetaMeta Consulting, is joined by Robert Hodges, CEO at Altinity, to discuss ClickHouse, the first open-source, SQL data warehouse that competes with the major DBMS players. Over the course of the conversation, they look at: The history and background of ClickHouse Benefits of open source from a data perspective Management perspectives of the data journey Applying ClickHouse across small to large organisations

Application Programming Interface, or API, was initially built to tackle the historic IT issue of system integrations. The software enables two applications and their individual data siloes to communicate with ease, leaving companies to focus on matters that do not allow for automation. However, this isn't the only tech problem that API, when managed correctly, can be used to solve. Martin Buhr, CEO and Founder of Tyk is joining Scott Taylor, Principal Consultant at MetaMeta Consulting, to explore how API management can drive digital transformation and continuity. Martin lends his expertise on making data 'talk' and delves into how GraphQL and Tyk's Universal Data Graph is changing the game. He also discusses the differences and benefits of best-in-class solutions versus home-grown solutions, before explaining the importance of digital transformation projects through use cases and customer stories.

Data sharing plays a vital role in ensuring organisations can generate insights, manage risk, and understand their customers. It can, however, be a highly complex and labour-intensive endeavour, with differing regulations across jurisdictions around how financial organisations review, approve and track data sharing activities. In this podcast, Susan Walsh, Founder and MD of The Classification Guru, speaks with Kate Platonova, Group CDO at HSBC, and Lorraine Waters, CDO at Solidatus, about how HSBC is modernising data sharing with their DataVisa initiative. Kate and Lorraine explore the history of data sharing and how HSBC and Solidatus are revolutionising the industry from a digital transformation, ROI, and automation perspective. The two also lend their expert advice on what organisations need to consider when allowing legal experts access to information in a single repository.

Data powers the cogs of every business today and nearly every company wants to transform through the help of it. In a nutshell, data has become a true 'asset' to the modern enterprise, especially in respect of how data analysis can be used to inform and drive business decisions. How Data Analysis Can Inform Business Decisions Joining Scott Taylor, Principal Consultant at MetaMeta Consulting, to unpick and analyse this further is Philip Dutton, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Solidatus, and Wade Munsie, Global Chief Data Officer at GSK Consumer Healthcare. Philip and Wade share their thoughts on the realism of what goes into making data an asset, data-led decision-making, and the purpose of the CDO. The pair answer key business questions such as: how should companies begin their data transformation journeys and manage their assets effectively? How should a business approach the purpose of the CDO from an investment and governance standpoint? And, how should we deal with data quality? Additional topics of discussion i

Digital transformation has changed over the years, especially in light of COVID-19. No longer just a term used to describe 'out with the old technology and in with the new', it now refers to everything from digitising assets to implementing a master data management (MDM) system. Joining Scott Taylor, Principal Consultant at MetaMeta Consulting, to delve deeper into the matter are Kerry Young, Enterworks VP and General Manager for Winshuttle, and Jonathan Varo, Product Information Management Team Lead at Fender Musical Instruments. In this podcast, Jonathan starts by defining what digital transformation is and what it means for a brand like Fender. Following this, Kerry explores digital transformation's relationship with MDM and how the two technologies have helped businesses and their supply chains during the pandemic. To end, Kerry and Jonathan both share their expertise on how companies can kickstart their MDM journey.

In this podcast, Scott Taylor, Principal Consultant at MetaMeta Consulting, is joined by Robert Hodges, CEO at Altinity, to discuss ClickHouse, the first open-source, SQL data warehouse that competes with the major DBMS players. Over the course of the conversation, they look at: The history and background of ClickHouse Benefits of open source from a data perspective Management perspectives of the data journey Applying ClickHouse across small to large organisations Instant analytics and reporting culminate in the new open-source, column-oriented DBMS, ClickHouse. The system has grown to be one of the most popular database projects, with thousands of users generating analytical reports via real-time SQL queries since it publicly launched in 2016 following an 8 year internal testing period with Yandex. When faced with trillions of rows of data and the need to filter, explore, and interact with it, ClickHouse is the solution for

This week's guest is making his third appearance in our 12 part series with Cloudera. In this podcast, Scott Taylor welcomes back https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-mackay/ (Paul Mackay), EMEA Cloud Lead from Cloudera, to lend his expertise on how CDP is driving business transformation with cloud-native data and analytics. Paul appeared in episode 1 and episode 7 to lay the foundations of what enterprise data cloud is and explain the benefits of hybrid cloud strategies. This time, he draws on examples from major banks, telcos, and manufacturers to explain some of the use cases that are currently being delivered on CDP. Next week's final episode: GO ALL IN ON DIGITAL Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss an episode of this fantastic series.

Episode 10 of our 12 part series with Cloudera. In this podcast, Scott Taylor speaks to Wim Stoop, Product Marketing Director at Cloudera, about the data centre of the future by running a private cloud. Wim previously appeared in episode 8 to discuss security and governance. This time, he explores the current landscape and challenges of public cloud and what the futuristic utopia of private cloud in data centres means in terms of implementation, benefits, and future-proofing. Wim also touches on whether data analytics on-prem can behave as it does in public and the challenges private cloud addresses around cluster sprawl, upgrade complexity, and missed SLAs, in which he draws on a few helpful use cases. Next week's episode: Enterprise Data Cloud in Action Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss an episode of this fantastic series.

We are in the final stretch of our 12 part series with Cloudera. In this podcast, Scott Taylor speaks to Chris Darvill, RVP Solutions Engineering at Cloudera, about the business benefits of data visualisation. Chris begins by explaining how companies can bring data to life with data visualisation tools, before exploring what it means to have a 'common language' between data teams and the business. He then sheds light on the relationship between data storytelling and data visualisation - including the human element in visualisation - and outlines the key aspects that data leaders need to consider when implementing these types of tools.  Next week's episode: Data Centres of the Future: Private Cloud Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss an episode of this fantastic series.

Episode 8 of our 12 part Cloudera series features two excellent guests. Join Scott Taylor hosting Ana Gillan, Senior Solutions Engineer, and Wim Stoop, Product Marketing Director at Cloudera, as they deconstruct, rationalize, and discuss solutions for this ongoing business challenge. Topics range from how to think of security and governance as a 'business enabler', balancing usability and security, positioning automated security and governance as a benefit for cloud-based businesses, and the burning question: why are we still talking about security and governance in 2021?  Next week's episode: Data Visualisation Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss an episode of this fantastic series.

A returning guest comes back to provide more fantastic insight into our 12 part Cloudera series. Join Scott Taylor and Paul Mackay, EMEA Cloud Lead from Cloudera, as they discuss how data - and the devices on which it's generated - becomes ever more prolific and why businesses need a hybrid cloud strategy that can span a multitude of different environments and enable them to say yes, not no.  Next week's episode: Security and Governance Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss an episode of this fantastic series.

This episode marks our halfway point through our 12 part series with Cloudera. In this podcast, Jeff Fletcher, Senior Director of Product Management at Cloudera, explains why we need to rethink how we operationalise ML within the enterprise. Jeff starts by talking about what technology types apply to ML and what people should keep in mind about the operational side when testing. Also, he outlines the boundaries of machine learning, AutoML, and artificial intelligence and how cloud fits into this process. Finally, Jeff explains the importance of feeding and caring for how the data is trained. Next week's episode: Hybrid Cloud and the Power of Yes Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss an episode of this fantastic series.

Episode 5 of our 12 part Cloudera sees a returning guest joining us. In this podcast, Jan Kunigk, CTO EMEA, returns to discuss what is needed to set apart a modern data warehouse PaaS (platform as a service) in the cloud from the traditional warehouse solutions. Jan explains the benefit that container technology has in a data warehouse and how that impacts the end-users. He also describes how containerisation in a PaaS offering leads to cloud-native flexibility and how organisations can leverage this for multi and hybrid cloud mobility for cloud spend. Finally, he outlines the role of open standards to truly facilitate the mobility of queries, data, and metadata that enterprises demand from their warehouse solution. Next week's episode: Machine Learning - Take Risks and Fail Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss an episode of this fantastic series.

Episode 4 of our 12 part series with Cloudera. In this podcast, Simon Elliston Ball, Director Product Management, Streaming Analytics, and Cyber ML at Cloudera explain why real-time streaming has become so important. Simon starts by talking about the role real-time data streaming plays in encouraging digitally driven innovation. Also, he explains the types of data structures organisations need as well as how this differs from traditional data practices. Finally, Simon discusses the potential that ML brings to real-time data streaming and the considerations for compliance and governance. Next week's episode: Cloud Native Data Warehouse Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss an episode of this fantastic series.

Episode 3 is here as part of our 12 part series with Cloudera. In this podcast, Jan Kunigk, CTO EMEA, shares his architectural knowledge of hybrid and multi-cloud deployments for data and analytics. Jan starts by talking about the considerations needed when making the choice between hybrid and multi-cloud. Also, he explains the different architecture and deployment styles for both options. Further to this, he outlines the cost difference and what analytic opportunities they present. Finally, Jan discusses the role CEOs should play in making cloud decisions and how involved they should be in the process. Next week's episode: Data in Overdrive Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss an episode of this fantastic series.

It's episode 2 of this fantastic 12 part series with Cloudera. In this podcast, Scott Taylor speaks to Abhas Ricky, Managing Director, Global Head – Strategy & Transformation at Cloudera. Abhas starts by talking about why people implement the cloud and how enterprises can have a better understanding of the costs involved. Secondly, he explains how organisations should define their total cost of ownership model. Also, Abhas explains how ephemeral workloads can be beneficial and the differences between analytical and operational workloads. Finally, he outlines where the complications and nuances come in around the cost of data and analytics. Next week's episode: Critical Technology Decisions for Cloud Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss an episode of this fantastic series.

Welcome to season 5! This new and exciting series from Cloudera will take us on a journey across all things cloud and data over the next 12 weeks. In this podcast, Scott Taylor speaks to Paul Mackay, EMEA Cloud Lead at Cloudera. Firstly, Paul outlines what an enterprise data cloud is and how to assess the need for a cloud initiative effectively. Next, he details how organisations make the right choices to leverage cloud correctly and the data management implications. Finally, Paul explains the importance of enterprise-class security and governance. Next week's episode: Optimise the Cost of Data and Analytics with Hybrid Cloud Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss an episode of this fantastic series.

Hybrid working has become a common talking point of many organisations in the last year as the increase of remote working has transformed several industries. As one might expect, a change in our work culture drastically changes the demands of our workers, meaning that more skilled professionals are required to handle independent working. The problem is that in its current state, the UK is underprepared for this paradigm shift; according to Coursera's Global Skills Report, the UK has the lowest proficiency for business skills in Europe, ranking only at a 29% proficiency.  There is hope for the UK yet; since the pandemic, 24% more women and 32% more unemployed people have enrolled for STEM courses in the UK. This would help to fix the gender gap in STEM, a current concern for many businesses, and it will also help to increase our number of skilled professionals that can perform in the private sector. In this Data Transforming Business podcast, EM360 Head of Content Max Kurton speaks to

While organisations are gradually becoming more data-driven, there are still organisations that rely solely on instinct. According to Talend's 2021 Data Health Survey, a whopping 36% of executives are still making gut based decisions, a method which has proved time and time again to be both inefficient and unpredictable. One of the contributing factors to gut based decision making is a lack of trust in data. Data quality varies from industry to industry but within single organisations, it can also vary from person to person. In fact, 38% of data users state that there are no data quality standards in place in their organisation, so why would executives trust data to make decisions? The key to becoming data-driven means ensuring that everyone, from the data-producer to the data-user, is involved in the data lifecycle. This means decentralising data processes to ensure that every member of the team both has a transparent understanding of how data is being used but also feels equally involved in the process. In