From On-Prem to Cloud - An Exec Roundtable

Gartner predicts that “by 2023, more than 33% of large organizations will have analysts practicing decision intelligence, including decision modeling”. In 2020, data analytics has evolved together with AI to produce more accurate predictions and educated suggestions. Join Eric Topham and a panel of industry experts and thought leaders to find out how data and analytics will transform human-machine relationships.

This month's episode of The Business Intelligence Report will look at the defining data and analytics trends to watch in 2021. Some of the topics to be covered during this session will include:
- The growing importance of external data
- Trends of how organizations are finding and using external data
- How data visualization enriches analytics and helps reveal correlations
- The evolution of dashboards. Where are we now and where are we headed?
- Data visualization in real-time for timely, actionable insights
- Visual analytics use cases. Building a data narrative to achieve business results.

Panelists:
- Mark Balkenende, Senior Director, Product Marketing at Matillion
- Dedy Kredo, VP of Customer-Facing Data Science at Explorium
- William McKnight, President of McKnight Consulting Group

This episode is part of The Business Intelligence Report original series with Eric Topham, Co-Founder & Data Science Director at The Data Analysis Bureau.

We welcome viewer participation and questions during this interactive panel session.

2020 was the year that defied all predictions, in both data management and just about everything else imaginable. Join Matillion’s product marketing team as we take stock of this 100-year probability event and begin to recalibrate for the decade ahead. Mark Balkenende and Paul Lacey discuss some of the hottest trends in the data integration industry and their expected impact in the coming year. Will 2021 be the year that Data Fabrics prove positive ROI? Will data pipelines finally become commodified? Are the Data Lake’s best days still to come? Tune in for speculation on these points and more as we share how a data-driven enterprise can make the world’s data useful over the next year.

Here are these trends:
- Data Pipeline Commodification
- More AI and ML functionality moving into the CDW
- Re-Advent of Data Lakes
- Rise of the Data Fabric
- Data Governance
- CDOs Taking Ownership of the Stack

In this newly cloud-first world - driven by the Digital Transformation necessitated by the pandemic - there’s never been a more crucial time to make sure your cloud migration is a success. But a successful cloud migration requires a clear roadmap to help mitigate risk and enable businesses to safely and securely bring their operations to the cloud - and this can be hard to find.

Join episode 16 of Digital Transformation in Action where host Alex Hilton and guest experts share the essential considerations of cloud migration, including:

- What the obstacles to cloud migration are - including a lack of skilled teams and unrealistic timelines
- Best practices for successfully overcoming these obstacles
- The benefits of successful cloud migration - including data and threat protection, flexibility and scalability
- What to be aware of once you’ve migrated: the good, the ‘bad’ and potential unknowns
- And more

Guests:
- Danny Keating - Director of Global Alliances, Data Intensity
- Arawan Gajajiva - Principal Solution Architect, Matillion
- Graham Bromham - Head of Regional Sales & Service Providers at Fujitsu UK

In this popular Matillion Tech Talk, Mike Nixon from Matillion’s Solution Architect team will debate Jython vs. Python and discuss best practices for using both in Matillion ETL, a cloud data integration and transformation solution.

In this 30-minute session, he will dig into topics such as:
- Python Dos and Don'ts: ELT not ETL, OOMs, and Dates
- Integration Examples: Variables and boto3
- Remote Python and Serverless Execution

In this Matillion Tech Talk, Jason Kane, Solution Architect at Matillion provides a demo of Matillion’s ETL solution built for the cloud and shares the most popular use cases from our customers.


In this 30-minute session, we dig into topics such as:
- Taking advantage of the power and scalability of popular cloud data warehouses.
- Addressing popular transformation use cases, such as how to populate a fact table and using SCD Type 2 User Dimensions.
- How to manage your initial setup using Matillion ETL’s straightforward UI.

Most businesses plan to migrate data platforms to the cloud or expand their cloud presence in the next few years. Moving to the cloud can help create new revenue streams, lower operations costs, and empower remote and distributed teams. But shifting an entire enterprise data architecture to the cloud is complex. Where do you start, and how do you avoid challenges that steer your project off track?

Join data leaders from Waste Management, Viewgol and Powell Industries as they share their journey to the cloud. You’ll hear:

- How the cloud helps companies move faster and see real results from data
- Practical, proven tips for successful cloud data migration
- How data integration solutions play a critical role in your cloud data strategy
- What key factors other leaders consider as they build for the future


Panelists:
Kelly Kohlleffel, VP of Sales, Marketing & Alliances at Hashmap
Tyler Wheatley, Senior Manager of Data & Analytics at Waste Management
Harry Hopkins, CIO at Viewgol
Ajay Bidani, Business Systems Manager at Powell Industries
Dan Shah, Director, Consulting Partners at Matillion

According to IDG research, the #1 reason enterprises migrate their data to cloud platforms is faster time-to-value for implementing analytics projects.

In today’s rapidly evolving business climate, you need “analytics-ready” data. This means that data transformation is critical to revealing the insights that your organization needs in order to pull ahead.

Join Uberflip’s Director of Data Science, Geoffrey Hunter and Matillion for How to Get From Data to Analysis Faster with Matillion and Snowflake. He’ll break down Uberflip’s multi-departmental use case, implementation lessons learned from start to finish, and share no-fluff, practical advice for enterprises like your company.

You’ll hear first-hand how Uberflip:

-Reduced the time it takes to build reports from 5 weeks to under a day
-Chose Matillion, Snowflake and Looker to complete their data tech stack
-Overcame internal and external challenges and how to address them quickly

To handle the scale and speed of 24/7 data operations, businesses are increasingly turning to the cloud. According to Gartner, "By 2022, 75% of all databases will be deployed or migrated to a cloud platform.” Join Ippon and Matillion to hear our cloud data experts share best practices for setting your strategy and selecting partners and solutions that work for you now -- and carry you into the future.

You’ll learn:
- How to determine your approach and solidify your strategy for a scalable cloud data architecture
- Methods for right-sizing your initial cloud data migration project to deliver fast business value
- The solutions and tools such as Snowflake and Matillion ETL that are available to help you streamline your cloud data model
- The questions you should ask any partner or vendor to safeguard your deployment

A lack of understanding around a comprehensive cloud data strategy often makes it difficult to overcome internal stakeholders’ traditional assumptions. It's commonly thought that all data migration, integration and transformation are cumbersome processes that exhaust valuable resources and are unable to scale in real-time. It's time to rethink. Prepare to learn how you can rapidly migrate to the cloud and extract and exploit the value held in your data to provide business insights that matter.

Join Matillion and Inawisdom to hear practical, no-fluff answers to common questions like:
- What data can I move to the cloud? Can it be added on top of my existing IT infrastructure? Why or why not?
- What role does a push-down ELT architecture play in the success of my cloud data strategy?
- Data-driven decisions: How can I get visibility into my business operation, reduce data latency and ensure my organization is making decisions from the most relevant, up-to-date data?
- My data is already in the cloud, how can I quickly get business values from it and drive insights about finance, customer success, sales and marketing, and more.

Speakers:
Robin Meehan, CTO at Inawisdom
Ian Funnel, Director of Solution Architecture

Moderator:
Dan Shah, Director, Consulting Partners at Matillion

Your Matillion server is running, your business is hungry for information, and your data team is ready to go. Now what? In this webinar, we will demonstrate how to tackle your first development iteration to accelerate success and reduce headaches. We’ll share our approach on defining MVP for your project, using common design patterns in Matillion to deliver value quickly and starting the feedback loop early for future development.

We'll also discuss the real-world case of an ecommerce business that used Matillion and Snowflake to build a greenfield data warehouse. You’ll see why Matillion is a great choice for teams just getting started, and how the lessons learned also apply to teams transitioning to a modern data warehouse.

Attend to learn:
- Best practices for defining and delivering MVP (Minimal Viable Product)
- Common patterns to process data from source to dimensional model
- How to accelerate development and ensure consistency using job templates
- How to automate a Snowflake development environment refresh using Matillion

Your business-critical data comes in all shapes and sizes–and from all different sources. If there’s a pre-built connector, that’s great. But what if there isn’t? Bringing data into your cloud data warehouse from less common sources can often be more challenging. Now, with Matillion ETL’s Create Your Own Connector feature, you can easily extract and load data from any source into your cloud data warehouse or data lake. Never ask “Is there a connector for X?” again.

Join Interworks and Matillion for a technical session to learn how to:
- Easily build the connectors you need and customize this feature for your unique use case
- Leverage this feature to save an issue like a relational system being overwhelmed by reporting
- Provide quicker ROI and remove adoption obstacles presented by various APIs with different standards

As firms begin to embrace a modern data architecture and undertake a move to the cloud, they need to make a lot of choices: the right cloud vendor, cloud data warehouse, ETL/ELT solution, and the right systems integration partner. However, one area they often overlook is building the right Modern Data Team. How do you find the right balance of skills and technologies? In this webinar hosted by Slalom and Matillion, you will learn:

- How to extend your current team's skills and capabilities to manage the transition and future operation of your modern data architecture environment
- How to retain the rich subject matter expertise and substantial business logic that your team has built to date
- Where to retool and enhance technology with automation and other modern capabilities
- How one Financial Services client successfully modernized their data architecture and upskilled their team

Join Ed Thompson, CTO of Matillion, and Vamsee Kata, Manager of Platform Architecture & Operations at Slack, to learn how taking an end-to-end approach to your cloud data strategy can achieve faster business value and deliver a future-proof solution.

We will cover:
- How a modern data architecture and cloud-native data tools are instrumental to unlocking data and analytical insights.
- The pros and cons of decentralizing data management and how to empower your team with the right knowledge, tools and support.
- Slack’s real-life use case, the challenges they experienced and how they overcame them.

LIVE AT 1:00PM PST

OROS Customer Case Study: Redefining the value of marketing by building on an open data platform

Marketing analytics is an over saturated and underserved market with providers offering plug and play technology at a low price point by stripping out customized and layered dashboards which leaves marketers with an overwhelming amount of siloed and fragmented data. OROS is built on two pillars; a truly customized and layered marketing analytics solution combined with data science and insights, all driven by a human-centric approach. With partner technologies Matillion, Snowflake and Tableau, OROS provides a robust marketing intelligence solution on a modern analytics stack.

Jared Miller, Vice President of Product, OROS
Kaci Eckel, Data Engineering Manager, OROS

LIVE AT 12:00PM PST

Come learn why a cloud technology stack is the best answer to unlock insights from your data generated in the cloud. This presentation InterWorks showcases Matillions unique ability to extract and transform data from cloud native tools and services, along with some helpful tips and tricks for users looking to take advantage of custom API integrations.

LIVE AT 11:00AM PST

Learn how customers are maturing their analytics stack using Snowflake Cloud Data Platform, deriving all the insights from all their data by all their business users.

LIVE AT 10:00AM PST

In market-leading organizations, every part of the business is data driven. Find out how a cloud-native, comprehensive approach to data integration and data transformation can help your business:
-Achieve faster time to insight
-Become more cost- and resource-efficient
-Use more of your data to drive business decisions
-Empower citizen data professionals across your organization