Data Transforming Business EM360

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.

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 include data ecosystem sustainability and setting up a CDO from scratch.

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.

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.

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

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 has been implemented
Want to find out more about Yellowfin's approach to transforming business through data? Click here!