Distributed Data Management: Solving Challenges and Maximizing Opportunities – Results of New TDWI Best Practices Research
Webinar Speaker: Fern Halper, TDWI VP Research, Senior Research Director for Advanced Analytics
Date: Monday, November 18, 2024
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
Distributed data is a reality for most organizations today. As businesses grow and evolve, they often find themselves managing a variety of data sources, driven by past decisions and operational needs. Factors like business unit demands, the adoption of CRM and ERP systems, and the impact of mergers and acquisitions add to the complexity. To implement advanced analytics and AI, organizations are also collecting diverse data types—structured and unstructured, including text, machine data, and real-time data—all critical for building AI models and applications.
As organizations manage this growing data landscape, they often use a mix of on-premises systems and cloud platforms, which leads to distributed data across multiple environments. Previous TDWI research highlights that many organizations operate in hybrid environments, with data spread across both on-premises and cloud platforms. However, the challenge of managing distributed systems can lead to technical debt, particularly when retaining legacy systems that still hold value but add complexity and overhead to modern data management efforts.
Join TDWI’s VP of Research, Fern Halper, as she explores the results of TDWI’s latest research and moderates a panel of experts discussing best practices for distributed data management. Topics include:
- The state of distributed data management
- Challenges and opportunities for distributed data management
- Best practices for overcoming the challenges
- Recommendations for getting started
Guest Speakers
Paul Lewis
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Pythian
As CTO, Paul Lewis drives Pythian’s technology strategy, helping customers leverage and scale their data and cloud assets to deliver valuable business outcomes throughout their digital transformation journey. In addition, Paul steers technical innovations that continue to expand partner relationships.
As a 25+ year global CTO and technology executive, Paul is well-known in the industry for his impassioned technology evangelism, customer advocacy, and technological and business strategy, particularly related to digital transformation and operational IT strategy.
Colin Dover
Senior Director, Business Technology Platform Center of Excellence
SAP
As part of the Business Technology Platform Center of Excellence, Colin represents a breadth of solutions within the SAP portfolio; he is an evangelist for the SAP digital transformation strategy and vision as well as a passionate advocate for the value and best practices of corporate customer data strategy and analytics capability maturity. He has held a variety of technical and strategic consulting roles at a number of market-leading enterprise software vendors, gaining extensive experience over a 22-year period, working with many of the world’s leading corporations.
Scott Teal
Product Marketing Manager
Snowflake
Scott is a product marketing manager at Snowflake, focused on data lakes and data governance. Prior to Snowflake, he worked for Tableau where he held various roles in marketing, focused on growth and strategy for Tableau Public. Scott holds an industrial engineering undergraduate degree and an MBA from the University of Central Florida.
Date: November 18, 2024
Time: 9:00 am PT
Fern Halper, Ph.D.