BBBT - Alation - 2016
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Topic:
The role of the Data Catalog in building a Data-Driven Organization
Summary:
The goal of self-service analytics – to give employees a one-stop shop for data knowledge – requires not only making access to data easy but also requires organizational control over data consistency, accuracy and the appropriate application of data. Data Catalogs help sustain innovation in the data-driven organization by balancing data access and control. We’ll share a perspective on the modern data catalog that includes:
• Key technologies that define the modern data catalog
• New techniques like data curation that increase business user engagement with data cataloging
• How the organizational process of adopting a modern data catalog can raise the bar on data literacy in an organization
Presenter(s):
Satyen Sangani – CEO
Satyen is the CEO of Alation. Before Alation, Satyen spent nearly a decade at Oracle, ultimately running the Financial Services Warehousing and Performance Management business where he helped customers get insights out of their systems. Prior to Oracle, Satyen was an Associate with the Texas Pacific Group and an Analyst with Morgan Stanley & Co. Satyen holds a Masters from the University of Oxford and a Bachelors from Columbia College, both in Economics.
Stephanie McReynolds – VP of Marketing
With over 15 years of data infrastructure and application experience, Stephanie has a track record of bringing new technologies to market and into the hands of business analysts. Stephanie is currently the Vice President of Marketing at Alation. Prior to Alation, Stephanie was instrumental in building the first marketing team at the self-service data preparation provider Trifacta. She previously held senior product management positions at a number of data companies including Teradata, Aster Data and Oracle. Stephanie earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford University.
Company Profile:
Alation is the first data catalog built for collaboration. With Alation, analysts are empowered to search, query and collaborate on their data to achieve faster, more accurate insights. Alation automatically captures the rich context of enterprise data, including what the data describes, who has used it, and the fit between the data and different types of analysis. Alation’s catalog is generated and updated using machine learning and improved through human collaboration between analysts, stewards, experts and business users. Alation is funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Bloomberg Beta, Costanoa Venture Capital, Data Collective and General Catalyst Partners. Customers include eBay, Square, Safeway, and some of the world’s largest finance and retail firms.
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