Fern Halper, Ph.D.

VP and Senior Director of Research for Advanced Analytics, TDWI

Overcoming Factors that Hamper Analytics Productivity

Organizations are looking to modernize their data infrastructure for numerous reasons, but the top reason we see at TDWI is to support modern analytics, such as self-service BI and machine learning. Often, organizations are moving to cloud platforms as part of this modernization effort. However, the cloud doesn’t necessarily solve challenges such as data findability, data governance, or putting advanced analytics to work. In fact, in some cases, it can cause more complexity.

In this presentation, Fern Halper, Ph.D., VP and senior director of research for advanced analytics at TDWI, will discuss some key data and analytics challenges organizations are facing as they try to derive insight from data and how to overcome them. Solutions include both technology and the organization's best practices.

Paul Lacey

Senior Director of Product Marketing, Matillion

Finding the Information Gaps in Your Organization

We all know the nagging feeling that somehow, despite our best efforts and intentions, calamity awaits just around the corner. With the growing complexity of today’s cloud data and architectures, it seems it’s only a matter of time before we discover yet another issue lurking in the data.

What if there was a way to spot these challenges ahead of time? A way to predict common problem areas and address them proactively before they hit the critical path?

Join Paul Lacey, senior director of product marketing at Matillion, as we review recent survey submissions from hundreds of data professionals to identify common challenges with information creation in the cloud. We’ll uncover trends, pitfalls, and solutions to help your team stay on track and start closing information gaps you never knew existed.

Speaker Bio: Paul Lacey is a senior director of product marketing at Matillion. He has extensive experience with big data processing, analytics, and OCR data extraction technologies, having led both product marketing and engineering teams across several SaaS technology companies. At Matillion, Paul focuses on helping customers make their data useful by leveraging best-in-class emerging technologies in the cloud.

Naval Bal

Solution Architect Manager, Matillion

Speaker Bio: Naval Bal is a Solution Architect Manager at Matillion. He has hands-on experience with a wide array of technologies and tools in the ETL/ELT, data and analytics space. At Matillion, he enjoys working with customers to help facilitate modern data implementations using Matillion with other cloud native technologies and services.