Independent industry analyst and TDWI Research Fellow focused on data intelligence, BI, analytics, AI, and the mellifluous application of information technology
@KNBR What a terrible decision to fire Tom Tolbert (and John Lund). Oh well, more time just became available to listen to @KNBR competitors. Looking forward to it.
#TDWI research finds that time it takes to cleanse data is a big problem hindering analytics, slowing time to insight. Mike Isbill, @LockheedMartin Fellow, Digital Sustainment Analytics gave good example of using @SASsoftware Viya to reduce cleansing time by 80%. #SASInsight2024
Fascinating discussion about in-practice use of gen AI to accelerate answers to real-time manufacturing process problems w Bryan Harris, @SASsoftware EVP and CTO and Roshan Shan, VP of Collaboration and Support Center Operations @GeorgiaPacific#SASInsight2024
The faster your company can get through the AI life cycle, the faster your learning rate. The faster your learning rate, the more competitive advantages you have today – SAS CTO, EVP Bryan Harris #SASARConf
Sandeep Bisawa @StanChart described how data is the "water and oxygen" - not the new oil - and how the company has carefully nurtured an analytics culture to support data innovation for risk management and more #Data22
Quotable quote: “Demos are like Tinker Bell; if you don’t cheer for them, they don’t work as well.” It worked. Great stuff showing @ThoughtSpot self-service empowerment, live data access, and reverse ETL capabilities #BeyondData22
Brendon Hill, VP HealthSight Platform, BD, on stage talks inspirationally about “when we started, we were science experiments.” Now his data and BI projects have tremendous influence and importance. However, he advises patience. “The journey can take some time.” #BeyondData22
Sudheesh Nair, ThoughtSpot CEO, invites Sunny Bedi, Snowflake CIO and Data Officer for interesting discussion about “not being a pleaser and appeaser”: enabling people to find and speak the truth w/data. Break through silos and establish culture to be data-driven #BeyondData22
I'll be heading to Las Vegas with @ThoughtSpot for #BeyondData22 next week. Join me and @Cindi Howson on #TheDataChief Live on May 10. We'll be talking through highlights from Day 1. You can tune in and participate here: https://t.co/25McGNJkUN
Hillary Ashton, Teradata Chief Product Officer, notes that with #Vantage, cloud compute and storage are “fully separated" and can so companies can scale them independently. Full embrace of cloud-native, open format object store #TDInfluencerSummit