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>>Okay. We're back here in the cube, focusing on the business promise of the cloud democratizing data, making it accessible and enabling everyone to get value from analytics, insights, and data. We're now moving into the eco systems segment the power of many versus the resources of one. And we're pleased to welcome. Barb Hills camp was the senior vice president partners and alliances at Ultrix and a special guest terror do week head of technology alliances at snowflake folks. Welcome. Good to see you. >>Thank you. Thanks for having me. Good to >>See Dave. Great to see you guys. So cloud migration, it's one of the hottest topics. It's the top one of the top initiatives of senior technology leaders. We have survey data with our partner ETR it's number two behind security and just ahead of analytics. So we're hovering around all the hot topics here. Barb, what are you seeing with respect to customer know cloud migration momentum and how does the Ultrix partner strategy fit? >>Yeah, sure. Partners are central, our company's strategy. They always have been, we recognize that our partners have deep customer relationships. And when you connect that with their domain expertise, they're really helping customers on their cloud and business transformation journey. We've been helping customers achieve their desired outcomes with our partner community for quite some time. And our partner base has been growing an average of 30% year over year, that partner, community and strategy now addresses several kinds of partners, spanning solution providers to global size and technology partners, such as snowflake and together, we help our customers realize that business promise of their journey to the cloud. Snowflake provides a scalable storage system altereds provides the business user friendly front end. So for example, it departments depend on snowflake to consolidate data across systems into one data cloud with Altryx business users can easily unlock that data in snowflake solving real business outcomes. Our GSI and solution provider partners are instrumental in providing that end to end benefit of a modern analytic stack in the cloud providing platform guidance, deployment, support, and other professional services. Okay, >>Great. Let's get a little bit more into the relationship between Altrix and in snowflake the partnership, maybe a little bit about the history, you know, what are the critical aspects that we should really focus on? Barb? Maybe you could start an Interra kindly way in as well. >>Yeah, so the relationship started in 2020 and all shirts made a big bag deep with snowflake co-innovating and optimizing cloud use cases together. We are supporting customers who are looking for that modern analytic stack to replace an old one or to implement their first analytic strategy. And our joint customers want to self-serve with data-driven analytics, leveraging all the benefits of the cloud, scalability, accessibility, governance, and optimizing our costs. Altrix proudly achieves highest elite tier and their partner program last year. And to do that, we completed a rigorous third party testing process, which also helped us make some recommended improvements to our joint stack. We wanted customers to have confidence. They would benefit from high quality and performance in their investment with us then to help customers get the most value out of the strength solution. We developed two great assets. One is the Altrix starter kit for snowflake, and we coauthored a joint best practices guide. >>The starter kit contains documentation, business workflows and videos, helping customers to get going more easily with an Alteryx and snowflake solution. And the best practices guide is more of a technical document, bringing together experiences and guidance on how Ultrix and snowflake can be deployed together. Internally. We also built a full enablement catalog resources, right? We wanted to provide our account executives more about the value of the snowflake relationship. How do we engage and some best practices. And now we have hundreds of joint customers such as Juniper and Sainsbury who are actively using our joint solution, solving big business problems, much faster. Cool. >>Tara, can you give us your perspective on the >>Yeah, definitely. Dave. So as Bart mentioned, we've got this standing very successful partnership going back, whereas with hundreds of happy joint customers. And when I look at the beginning, Ultrix has helped pioneer the concept of self-service analytics actually with use cases that we've worked on with, for, for data prep for BI users like Tableau and as Altrix has evolved to now becoming from data prep to now becoming a full end to end data science platform, it's really opened up a lot more opportunities for our partnership. Ultrix has invested heavily over the last two years in areas of deep integration for customers to fully be able to expand their investment, both technologies. And those investments include things like in database pushed down, right? So customers can, can leverage that elastic platform, that being the snowflake data cloud with Alteryx orchestrating the end to end machine learning workflows, Altryx also invested heavily in snow park, a feature we released last year around this concept of data programmability. So all users were regardless of their business analysts, regardless of their data, scientists can use their tools of choice in order to consume and get at data. And now with Altryx cloud, we think it's going to open up even more opportunities. It's going to be a big year for the partnership. >>Yeah. So, you know, Terike, we we've covered snowflake pretty extensively and you initially solve what I used to call the, I still call the snake swallowing the basketball problem and cloud data warehouse changed all that because you had virtually infinite resources. But so that's obviously one of the problems that you guys solved early on, but what are some of the common challenges or patterns or trends that you see with snowflake customers and where does Altryx come in? >>Sure. Dave there's there's handful that I can come up with today. The big challenges or trends for us, and Altrix really helps us across all of them. There are three particular ones I'm going to talk about the first one being self service analytics. If we think about it, every organization is trying to democratize data. Every organization wants to empower all their users, business users, you know, the, the technology users, but the business users, right? I think every, every organization has realized that if everyone has access to data and everyone can do something with data, it's going to make them competitively, give them a competitive advantage with all traits is something we share that vision of putting that power in the hands of everyday users, regardless of the skillsets. So with self-service analytics, with Ultrix designer, they've they started out with self-service analytics as the forefront, and we're just scratching the surface. >>I think there was an analyst report that shows that less than 20% of organizations are truly getting self-service analytics to their end users. Now with Altryx going to Ultrix cloud, we think that's going to be a huge opportunity for us. And then that opens up the second challenge, which is machine learning and AI, every organization is trying to get predictive analytics into every application that they have in order to be competitive in order to be competitive. And with Altryx creating this platform. So they can cater to both the everyday business user, the quote, unquote, citizen data scientists, and making it code friendly for data scientists, to be able to get at their notebooks and all the different tools that they want to use. They fully integrated in our snow park platform, which I talked about before, so that now we get an end to end solution catering to all, all lines of business. >>And then finally this concept of data marketplaces, right? We, we created snowflake from the ground up to be able to solve the data sharing problem, the big data problem, the data sharing problem. And Altryx, if we look at mobilizing your data, getting access to third-party data sets to enrich with your own data sets to enrich with, with your suppliers and with your partners, data sets, that's what all customers are trying to do in order to get a more comprehensive 360 view within their, their data applications. And so with Altryx is we're working on third-party data sets and marketplaces for quite some time. Now we're working on how do we integrate what Altrix is providing with, with the snowflake data marketplace so that we can enrich these workflows, these great rate workflows that Ultrix rating provides. Now we can add third party data into that workflow. So that opens up a ton of opportunities date. So those are three. I see easily that we're going to be able to solve a lot of customer challenges with. >>Excellent. Thank you for that. Terrick so let's stay on cloud a little bit. I mean, Altrix is undergoing a major transformation, big focus on the cloud. How does this cloud launch impact the partnership Terike from snowflakes perspective and then Barb, maybe, please add some color. >>Yeah, sure. Dave snowflake started as a cloud data platform. We saw our founders really saw the challenges that customers are having with becoming data-driven. And the biggest challenge was the complexity of having a managed infrastructure to even be able to, to get applications off the ground. And so we created something to be Claudia. We created to be a SAS managed service. So now that that Altrix is moving into the same model, right? A cloud platform, a SAS managed service, we're just, we're just removing more of the friction. So we're going to be able to start to package these end to end solutions that are SAS based that are fully managed. So customers can, can go faster. They don't have to worry about all of the underlying complexities of, of, of stitching things together. Right? So, so that's, what's exciting from my viewpoint >>And I'll follow up. So as you said, we're investing heavily in the cloud a year ago, we had to pray desktop products. And today we have four cloud products with cloud. We can provide our users with more flexibility. We want to make it easier for the users to leverage their snowflake data in the Alteryx platform, whether they're using our beloved on-premise solution or the new cloud products, we're committed to that continued investment in the cloud, enabling our joint partner solutions to meet customer requirements, wherever they store their data. And we're working with snowflake, we're doing just that. So as customers look for a modern analytic stack, they expect that data to be easily accessible, right within a fast, secure and scalable platform. And the launch of our cloud strategy is a huge leap forward in making Altrix more widely accessible to all users in all types of roles, our GSI and our solution provider partners have asked for these cloud capabilities at scale, and they're excited to better support our customers cloud and analytic ambitions. >>How about you go to market strategy? How would you describe your joint go to market strategy with snowflake? >>Sure. It's simple. We've got to work backwards from our customer's challenges, right? Driving transformation to solve problems, games agencies, or help them save money. So whether it's with snowflake or other GSI, other partner types, we've outlined a joint journey together from recruit solution development, activation enablement, and then strengthening our go to market strategies to optimize our results together. We launched an updated partner program and within that framework, we've created new benefits for our partners around opportunity registration, new role based enablement and training, basically extending everything we do internally for our own go-to-market teams to our partners. We're offering partner, marketing resources and funding to reach new customers together. And as a matter of fact, we recently launched a fantastic video with snowflake. I love this video that very simply describes the path to insights starting with your snowflake data. Right? We do joint customer webinars. We're working on joint hands-on labs and have a wonderful landing page with a lot of assets for our customers. Once we have an interested customer, we engage our respective account managers, collaborating through questions, proof of concepts really showcasing the desired outcome. And when you combine that with our partners technology or domain expertise, it's quite powerful, >>Tara, how do you see it? You'd go to market strategy. >>Yeah. Dave we've. So we initially started selling, we initially sold snowflake as technology, right? Looking at positioning the diff the architectural differentiators and the scale and concurrency. And we noticed as we got up into the larger enterprise customers, we were starting to see how do they solve their business problems using the technology, as well as them coming to us and saying, look, we want to also know how do you, how do you continue to map back to the specific prescriptive business problems we're having? And so we shifted to an industry focus last year, and this is an area where Ultrix has been mature for probably since their inception selling to the line of business, right? Having prescriptive use cases that are particular to an industry like financial services, like retail, like healthcare and life sciences. And so mark talked about these, these starter kits where it's prescriptive, you've got a demo and a way that customers can get off the ground and running, right? >>Because we want to be able to shrink that time to market, the time to value that customers can watch these applications. And we want to be able to, to, to tell them specifically how we can map back to their business initiatives. So I see a huge opportunity to align on these industry solutions. As BARR mentioned, we're already doing that where we've released a few around financial services working on healthcare and retail as well. So that is going to be a way for us to allow customers to go even faster and start to map to lines of business with Altryx >>Great. Thanks Derek, Bob, what can we expect if we're observing this relationship? What should we look for in the coming year? >>A lot specifically with snowflake, we'll continue to invest in the partnership. We're co innovators in this journey, including snow park extensibility efforts, which Derek will tell you more about shortly. We're also launching these great news strategic solution blueprints, and extending that at no charge to our partners with snowflake, we're already collaborating with their retail and CPG team for industry blueprints. We're working with their data marketplace team to highlight solutions, working with that data in their marketplace. More broadly, as I mentioned, we're relaunching the alternative partner program designed to really better support the unique partner types in our global ecosystem, introducing new benefits so that with every partner, achievement or investment with ultra we're providing our partners with earlier access to benefits, I could talk about our program for 30 minutes. I know we don't have time, but the key message here Alteryx is investing in our partner community across the business, recognizing the incredible value that they bring to our customers every day. >>Great Tarik. We'll give you the last word. What should we be looking for from, >>Yeah. Thanks. Thanks, Dave. As BARR mentioned, Ultrix has been the forefront of innovating with us. They've been integrating into making sure again, that customers get the full investment out of snowflake things like in database push down that I talked about before, but extensibility is really what we're excited about. The ability for Altrix to plug into this extensibility framework that we call snow park and to be able to extend out ways that the end users can consume snowflake through, through sequel, which has traditionally been the way that you consume snowflake as well as Java and Scala now Python. So we're excited about those, those capabilities. And then we're also excited about the ability to plug into the data marketplace to provide third party data sets, right? If they're PI day sets and in financial services, third party, data sets and retail. So now customers can build their data applications from end to end using ultrasound snowflake when the comprehensive 360 view of their customers, of their partners, of even their employees. Right. I think it's exciting to see what we're going to be able to do together with these upcoming innovations. >>Great stuff, Bob, Derek, thanks so much for coming on the program. Got to leave it right there in a moment. I'll be back with some closing thoughts in summary, don't go away.

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Stijn Christiaens, Collibra, Data Citizens 22


 

(Inspiring rock music) >> Hey everyone, I'm Lisa Martin covering Data Citizens 22 brought to you by Collibra. This next conversation is going to focus on the importance of data culture. One of our Cube alumni is back; Stan Christians is Collibra's co-founder and it's Chief Data citizen. Stan, it's great to have you back on theCUBE. >> Hey Lisa, nice to be here. >> So we're going to be talking about the importance of data culture, data intelligence, maturity all those great things. When we think about the data revolution that every business is going through, you know, it's so much more than technology innovation; it also really requires cultural transformation, community transformation. Those are challenging for customers to undertake. Talk to us about what you mean by data citizenship and the role that creating a data culture plays in that journey. >> Right. So as you know, our event is called Data Citizens because we believe that, in the end, a data citizen is anyone who uses data to do their job. And we believe that today's organizations you have a lot of people, most of the employees in an organization, are somehow going to be a data citizen, right? So you need to make sure that these people are aware of it, you need to make sure that these people have the skills and competencies to do with data what is necessary, and that's on all levels, right? So what does it mean to have a good data culture? It means that if you're building a beautiful dashboard to try and convince your boss we need to make this decision, that your boss is also open to and able to interpret, you know, the data presented in the dashboard to actually make that decision and take that action. Right? And once you have that "Why" to the organization that's when you have a good data culture. That's a continuous effort for most organizations because they're always moving somehow, they're hiring new people. And it has to be a continuous effort because we've seen that, on the one hand, organizations continue to be challenged with controlling their data sources and where all the data is flowing right? Which in itself creates lot of risk, but also on the other hand of the equation, you have the benefits, you know, you might look at regulatory drivers like we have to do this, right? But it's, it's much better right now to consider the competitive drivers for example. And we did an IDC study earlier this year, quite interesting, I can recommend anyone to read it, and one of the conclusions they found as they surveyed over a thousand people across organizations worldwide, is that the ones who are higher in maturity, so the organizations that really look at data as an asset, look at data as a product and actively try to be better at it don't have three times as good a business outcome as the ones who are lower on the maturity scale, right? So you can say, okay, I'm doing this, you know, data culture for everyone, awakening them up as data citizens. I'm doing this for competitive reasons. I'm doing this for regulatory reasons. You're trying to bring both of those together. And the ones that get data intelligence, right, are just going to be more successful and more competitive. That's our view and that's what we're seeing out there in the market. >> Absolutely. We know that just generally, Stan, right, The organizations that are really creating a a data culture and enabling everybody within the organization to become data citizens are, we know that, in theory, they're more competitive, they're more successful, But the IDC study that you just mentioned demonstrates they're three times more successful and competitive than their peers. Talk about how Collibra advises customers to create that community, that culture of data when it might be challenging for an organization to adapt culturally. >> Of course, of course it's difficult for an organization to adapt, but it's also necessary as you just said, imagine that, you know, you're a modern day organization, phones, laptops, what have you. You're not using those IT assets, right? Or you know, you're delivering them throughout the organization, but not enabling your colleagues to actually do something with that asset. Same thing is true with data today, right, if you're not properly using the data asset, and your competitors are, they're going to get more advantage. So as to how you get this done or how you establish this culture there's a few angles to look at, I would say. So one angle is obviously the leadership angle whereby whoever is the boss of data in the organization you typically have multiple bosses there, like a chief Data Officer, sometimes there's multiple, but they may have a different title, right? So I'm just going to summarize it as a data leader for a second. So whoever that is, they need to make sure that there's a clear vision, a clear strategy for data. And that strategy needs to include the monetization aspect. How are you going to get value from data? >> Lisa: Yes. >> Now, that's one part because then you can clearly see the example of your leadership in the organization, and also the business value, and that's important because those people, their job, in essence, really is to make everyone in the organization think about data as an asset. And I think that's the second part of the equation of getting that go to right is it's not enough to just have that leadership out there but you also have to get the hearts and minds of the data champions across the organization. You really have to win them over. And if you have those two combined, and obviously good technology to, you know, connect those people and have them execute on their responsibilities such as a data intelligence platform like ePlus, then you have the pieces in place to really start upgrading that culture inch by inch, if you will. >> Yes, I like that. The recipe for success. So you are the co-founder of Collibra. You've worn many different hats along this journey. Now you're building Collibra's own data office. I like how, before we went live, we were talking about Collibra is drinking its own champagne. I always loved to hear stories about that. You're speaking at Data Citizens 2022. Talk to us about how you are building a data culture within Collibra and what, maybe some of the specific projects are that Collibra's data office is working on. >> Yes. And it is indeed data citizens. There are a ton of speakers here, very excited. You know, we have Barb from MIT speaking about data monetization. We have DJ Patil at the last minute on the agenda so really exciting agenda, can't wait to get back out there. But essentially you're right. So over the years at Collibra, we've been doing this now since 2008, so a good 15 years, and I think we have another decade of work ahead in the market, just to be very clear. Data is here to stick around, as are we, and myself, you know, when you start a company we were four people in a garage, if you will, so everybody's wearing all sorts of hat at that time. But over the years I've run pre-sales at Collibra, I've run post sales, partnerships, product, et cetera, and as our company got a little bit biggish, we're now 1,200 something like that, people in the company I believe, systems and processes become a lot more important, right? So we said, you know, Collibra isn't the size of our customers yet, but we're getting there in terms of organization, structure, process systems et cetera. So we said it's really time for us to put our money where our mouth is, and to set up our own data office, which is what we were seeing that all of our customers are doing, and which is what we're seeing that organizations worldwide are doing and Gartner was predicting as well. They said, okay, organizations have an HR unit, they have a finance unit, and over time they'll all have a department, if you will, that is responsible somehow for the data. >> Lisa: Hm. >> So we said, okay, let's try to set an example with Collibra. Let's set up our own data office in such a way that other people can take away with it, right? Can take away from it? So we set up a data strategy, we started building data products, took care of the data infrastructure, that sort of good stuff, And in doing all of that, Lisa, exactly as you said, we said, okay, we need to also use our own products and our own practices, right? And from that use, learn how we can make the product better, learn how we can make the practice better and share that learning with all of the markets, of course. And on Monday mornings, we sometimes refer to that as eating our own dog foods, Friday evenings, we refer to that as drinking our own champagne. >> Lisa: I like it. >> So we, we had a (both chuckle) We had the drive do this, you know, there's a clear business reason, so we involved, we included that in the data strategy and that's a little bit of our origin. Now how, how do we organize this? We have three pillars, and by no means is this a template that everyone should follow. This is just the organization that works at our company, but it can serve as an inspiration. So we have pillars, which is data science, The data product builders, if you will or the people who help the business build data products, we have the data engineers who help keep the lights on for that data platform to make sure that the products, the data products, can run, the data can flow and, you know, the quality can be checked. And then we have a data intelligence or data governance pillar where we have those data governance data intelligence stakeholders who help the business as a sort of data partners to the business stakeholders. So that's how we've organized it. And then we started following the Collibra approach, which is, well, what are the challenges that our business stakeholders have in HR, finance, sales, marketing all over? And how can data help overcome those challenges? And from those use cases, we then just started to build a roadmap, and started execution on use case after use case. And a few important ones there are very simple, we see them with all our customers as well, people love talking about the catalog, right? The catalog for the data scientists to know what's in their data lake, for example, and for the people in Deagle and privacy, So they have their process registry, and they can see how the data flows. So that's a popular starting place and that turns into a marketplace so that if new analysts and data citizens join Collibra, they immediately have a place to go to to look at what data is out there for me as an analyst or data scientist or whatever, to do my job, right? So they can immediately get access to the data. And another one that we did is around trusted business reporting. We're seeing that, since 2008, you know, self-service BI allowed everyone to make beautiful dashboards, you know, by pie charts. I always, my pet peeve is the pie charts because I love pie, and you shouldn't always be using pie charts, but essentially there's become proliferation of those reports. And now executives don't really know, okay, should I trust this report or that report? They're reporting on the same thing but the numbers seem different, right? So that's why we have trusted business reporting. So we know if the reports, the dashboard, a data product essentially, is built, we know that all the right steps are being followed, and that whoever is consuming that can be quite confident in the result. >> Lisa: Right, and that confidence is absolutely key. >> Exactly. Yes. >> Absolutely. Talk a little bit about some of the the key performance indicators that you're using to measure the success of the data office. What are some of those KPIs? >> KPIs and measuring is a big topic in the chief data officer profession I would say, and again, it always varies, with respect to your organization, but there's a few that we use that might be of interest to you. So remember you have those three pillars, right? And we have metrics across those pillars. So, for example, a pillar on the data engineering side is going to be more related to that uptime, right? Is the data platform up and running? Are the data products up and running? Is the quality in them good enough? Is it going up? Is it going down? What's the usage? But also, and especially if you're in the cloud and if consumption's a big thing, you have metrics around cost, for example, right? So that's one set of examples. Another one is around the data signs and the products. Are people using them? Are they getting value from it? Can we calculate that value in a monetary perspective, right? >> Lisa: Yes. >> So that we can, to the rest of the business, continue to say, "We're tracking all those numbers and those numbers indicate that value is generated" and how much value estimated in that region. And then you have some data intelligence, data governance metrics, which is, for example you have a number of domains in a data mesh [Indistinct] People talk about being the owner a data domain for example, like product or customer. So how many of those domains do you have covered? How many of them are already part of the program? How many of them have owners assigned? How well are these owners organized, executing on their responsibilities? How many tickets are open? Closed? How many data products are built according to process? And so on and so forth, so these are a set of examples of KPI's. There's a lot more but hopefully those can already inspire the audience. >> Absolutely. So we've, we've talked about the rise of cheap data offices, it's only accelerating. You mentioned this is like a 10-year journey. So if you were to look into a crystal ball, what do you see, in terms of the maturation of data offices over the next decade? >> So we, we've seen, indeed, the role sort of grow up. I think in 2010 there may have been like, 10 chief data officers or something, Gartner has exact numbers on them. But then they grew, you know, 400's they were like mostly in financial services, but they expanded them to all industries and the number is estimated to be about 20,000 right now. >> Wow. >> And they evolved in a sort of stack of competencies, defensive data strategy, because the first chief data officers were more regulatory driven, offensive data strategy, support for the digital program and now all about data products, right? So as a data leader, you now need all those competences and need to include them in your strategy. How is that going to evolve for the next couple of years? I wish I had one of those crystal balls, right? But essentially, I think for the next couple of years there's going to be a lot of people, you know, still moving along with those four levels of the stack. A lot of people I see are still in version one and version two of the chief data officers. So you'll see, over the years that's going to evolve more digital and more data products. So for the next three, five years, my prediction is it's all going to be about data products because it's an immediate link between the data and the dollar essentially. >> Right. >> So that's going to be important and quite likely a new, some new things will be added on, which nobody can predict yet. But we'll see those pop up a few years. I think there's going to be a continued challenge for the chief data officer role to become a real executive role as opposed to, you know, somebody who claims that they're executive, but then they're not, right? So the real reporting level into the board, into the CEO for example, will continue to be a challenging point. But the ones who do get that done, will be the ones that are successful, and the ones who get that done will be the ones that do it on the basis of data monetization, right? Connecting value to the data and making that very clear to all the data citizens in the organization, right? >> Right, really creating that value chain. >> In that sense they'll need to have both, you know, technical audiences and non-technical audiences aligned of course, and they'll need to focus on adoption. Again, it's not enough to just have your data office be involved in this. It's really important that you are waking up data citizens across the organization and you make everyone in the organization think about data as an essence. >> Absolutely, because there's so much value that can be extracted if organizations really strategically build that data office and democratize access across all those data citizens. Stan, this is an exciting arena. We're definitely going to keep our eyes on this. Sounds like a lot of evolution and maturation coming from the data office perspective. From the data citizen perspective. And as the data show, that you mentioned in that IDC study you mentioned Gartner as well. Organizations have so much more likelihood of being successful and being competitive. So we're going to watch this space. Stan, thank you so much for joining me on theCUBE at Data Citizens 22. We appreciate it. >> Thanks for having me over. >> From Data Citizens 22, I'm Lisa Martin you're watching theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. (inspiring rock music) >> Okay, this concludes our coverage of Data Citizens 2022 brought to you by Collibra. Remember, all these videos are available on demand at theCUBE.net. And don't forget to check out siliconangle.com for all the news and wikibon.com for our weekly breaking analysis series where we cover many data topics and share survey research from our partner ETR, Enterprise Technology Research. If you want more information on the products announced at Data Citizens, go to Collibra.com. There are tons of resources there. 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>>Collibra is a company that was founded in 2008 right before the so-called modern big data era kicked into high gear. The company was one of the first to focus its business on data governance. Now, historically, data governance and data quality initiatives, they were back office functions and they were largely confined to regulatory regulated industries that had to comply with public policy mandates. But as the cloud went mainstream, the tech giants showed us how valuable data could become and the value proposition for data quality and trust. It evolved from primarily a compliance driven issue to becoming a lynchpin of competitive advantage. But data in the decade of the 2010s was largely about getting the technology to work. You had these highly centralized technical teams that were formed and they had hyper specialized skills to develop data architectures and processes to serve the myriad data needs of organizations. >>And it resulted in a lot of frustration with data initiatives for most organizations that didn't have the resources of the cloud guys and the social media giants to really attack their data problems and turn data into gold. This is why today for example, this quite a bit of momentum to rethinking monolithic data architectures. You see, you hear about initiatives like data mesh and the idea of data as a product. They're gaining traction as a way to better serve the the data needs of decentralized business Uni users, you hear a lot about data democratization. So these decentralization efforts around data, they're great, but they create a new set of problems. Specifically, how do you deliver like a self-service infrastructure to business users and domain experts? Now the cloud is definitely helping with that, but also how do you automate governance? This becomes especially tricky as protecting data privacy has become more and more important. >>In other words, while it's enticing to experiment and run fast and loose with data initiatives kinda like the Wild West, to find new veins of gold, it has to be done responsibly. As such, the idea of data governance has had to evolve to become more automated. And intelligence governance and data lineage is still fundamental to ensuring trust as data. It moves like water through an organization. No one is gonna use data that isn't trusted. Metadata has become increasingly important for data discovery and data classification. As data flows through an organization, the continuously ability to check for data flaws and automating that data quality, they become a functional requirement of any modern data management platform. And finally, data privacy has become a critical adjacency to cyber security. So you can see how data governance has evolved into a much richer set of capabilities than it was 10 or 15 years ago. >>Hello and welcome to the Cube's coverage of Data Citizens made possible by Calibra, a leader in so-called Data intelligence and the host of Data Citizens 2022, which is taking place in San Diego. My name is Dave Ante and I'm one of the hosts of our program, which is running in parallel to data citizens. Now at the Cube we like to say we extract the signal from the noise, and over the, the next couple of days, we're gonna feature some of the themes from the keynote speakers at Data Citizens and we'll hear from several of the executives. Felix Von Dala, who is the co-founder and CEO of Collibra, will join us along with one of the other founders of Collibra, Stan Christians, who's gonna join my colleague Lisa Martin. I'm gonna also sit down with Laura Sellers, she's the Chief Product Officer at Collibra. We'll talk about some of the, the announcements and innovations they're making at the event, and then we'll dig in further to data quality with Kirk Hasselbeck. >>He's the vice president of Data quality at Collibra. He's an amazingly smart dude who founded Owl dq, a company that he sold to Col to Collibra last year. Now many companies, they didn't make it through the Hado era, you know, they missed the industry waves and they became Driftwood. Collibra, on the other hand, has evolved its business. They've leveraged the cloud, expanded its product portfolio, and leaned in heavily to some major partnerships with cloud providers, as well as receiving a strategic investment from Snowflake earlier this year. So it's a really interesting story that we're thrilled to be sharing with you. Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy the program. >>Last year, the Cube Covered Data Citizens Collibra's customer event. And the premise that we put forth prior to that event was that despite all the innovation that's gone on over the last decade or more with data, you know, starting with the Hado movement, we had data lakes, we'd spark the ascendancy of programming languages like Python, the introduction of frameworks like TensorFlow, the rise of ai, low code, no code, et cetera. Businesses still find it's too difficult to get more value from their data initiatives. And we said at the time, you know, maybe it's time to rethink data innovation. While a lot of the effort has been focused on, you know, more efficiently storing and processing data, perhaps more energy needs to go into thinking about the people and the process side of the equation, meaning making it easier for domain experts to both gain insights for data, trust the data, and begin to use that data in new ways, fueling data, products, monetization and insights data citizens 2022 is back and we're pleased to have Felix Van Dema, who is the founder and CEO of Collibra. He's on the cube or excited to have you, Felix. Good to see you again. >>Likewise Dave. Thanks for having me again. >>You bet. All right, we're gonna get the update from Felix on the current data landscape, how he sees it, why data intelligence is more important now than ever and get current on what Collibra has been up to over the past year and what's changed since Data Citizens 2021. And we may even touch on some of the product news. So Felix, we're living in a very different world today with businesses and consumers. They're struggling with things like supply chains, uncertain economic trends, and we're not just snapping back to the 2010s. That's clear, and that's really true as well in the world of data. So what's different in your mind, in the data landscape of the 2020s from the previous decade, and what challenges does that bring for your customers? >>Yeah, absolutely. And, and I think you said it well, Dave, and and the intro that that rising complexity and fragmentation in the broader data landscape, that hasn't gotten any better over the last couple of years. When when we talk to our customers, that level of fragmentation, the complexity, how do we find data that we can trust, that we know we can use has only gotten kinda more, more difficult. So that trend that's continuing, I think what is changing is that trend has become much more acute. Well, the other thing we've seen over the last couple of years is that the level of scrutiny that organizations are under respect to data, as data becomes more mission critical, as data becomes more impactful than important, the level of scrutiny with respect to privacy, security, regulatory compliance, as only increasing as well, which again, is really difficult in this environment of continuous innovation, continuous change, continuous growing complexity and fragmentation. >>So it's become much more acute. And, and to your earlier point, we do live in a different world and and the the past couple of years we could probably just kind of brute for it, right? We could focus on, on the top line. There was enough kind of investments to be, to be had. I think nowadays organizations are focused or are, are, are, are, are, are in a very different environment where there's much more focus on cost control, productivity, efficiency, How do we truly get value from that data? So again, I think it just another incentive for organization to now truly look at data and to scale it data, not just from a a technology and infrastructure perspective, but how do you actually scale data from an organizational perspective, right? You said at the the people and process, how do we do that at scale? And that's only, only only becoming much more important. And we do believe that the, the economic environment that we find ourselves in today is gonna be catalyst for organizations to really dig out more seriously if, if, if, if you will, than they maybe have in the have in the best. >>You know, I don't know when you guys founded Collibra, if, if you had a sense as to how complicated it was gonna get, but you've been on a mission to really address these problems from the beginning. How would you describe your, your, your mission and what are you doing to address these challenges? >>Yeah, absolutely. We, we started Colli in 2008. So in some sense and the, the last kind of financial crisis, and that was really the, the start of Colli where we found product market fit, working with large finance institutions to help them cope with the increasing compliance requirements that they were faced with because of the, of the financial crisis and kind of here we are again in a very different environment, of course 15 years, almost 15 years later. But data only becoming more important. But our mission to deliver trusted data for every user, every use case and across every source, frankly, has only become more important. So what has been an incredible journey over the last 14, 15 years, I think we're still relatively early in our mission to again, be able to provide everyone, and that's why we call it data citizens. We truly believe that everyone in the organization should be able to use trusted data in an easy, easy matter. That mission is is only becoming more important, more relevant. We definitely have a lot more work ahead of us because we are still relatively early in that, in that journey. >>Well, that's interesting because, you know, in my observation it takes seven to 10 years to actually build a company and then the fact that you're still in the early days is kind of interesting. I mean, you, Collibra's had a good 12 months or so since we last spoke at Data Citizens. Give us the latest update on your business. What do people need to know about your, your current momentum? >>Yeah, absolutely. Again, there's, there's a lot of tail organizations that are only maturing the data practices and we've seen it kind of transform or, or, or influence a lot of our business growth that we've seen, broader adoption of the platform. We work at some of the largest organizations in the world where it's Adobe, Heineken, Bank of America, and many more. We have now over 600 enterprise customers, all industry leaders and every single vertical. So it's, it's really exciting to see that and continue to partner with those organizations. On the partnership side, again, a lot of momentum in the org in, in the, in the markets with some of the cloud partners like Google, Amazon, Snowflake, data bricks and, and others, right? As those kind of new modern data infrastructures, modern data architectures that are definitely all moving to the cloud, a great opportunity for us, our partners and of course our customers to help them kind of transition to the cloud even faster. >>And so we see a lot of excitement and momentum there within an acquisition about 18 months ago around data quality, data observability, which we believe is an enormous opportunity. Of course, data quality isn't new, but I think there's a lot of reasons why we're so excited about quality and observability now. One is around leveraging ai, machine learning, again to drive more automation. And the second is that those data pipelines that are now being created in the cloud, in these modern data architecture arch architectures, they've become mission critical. They've become real time. And so monitoring, observing those data pipelines continuously has become absolutely critical so that they're really excited about about that as well. And on the organizational side, I'm sure you've heard a term around kind of data mesh, something that's gaining a lot of momentum, rightfully so. It's really the type of governance that we always believe. Then federated focused on domains, giving a lot of ownership to different teams. I think that's the way to scale data organizations. And so that aligns really well with our vision and, and from a product perspective, we've seen a lot of momentum with our customers there as well. >>Yeah, you know, a couple things there. I mean, the acquisition of i l dq, you know, Kirk Hasselbeck and, and their team, it's interesting, you know, the whole data quality used to be this back office function and, and really confined to highly regulated industries. It's come to the front office, it's top of mind for chief data officers, data mesh. You mentioned you guys are a connective tissue for all these different nodes on the data mesh. That's key. And of course we see you at all the shows. You're, you're a critical part of many ecosystems and you're developing your own ecosystem. So let's chat a little bit about the, the products. We're gonna go deeper in into products later on at, at Data Citizens 22, but we know you're debuting some, some new innovations, you know, whether it's, you know, the, the the under the covers in security, sort of making data more accessible for people just dealing with workflows and processes as you talked about earlier. Tell us a little bit about what you're introducing. >>Yeah, absolutely. We're super excited, a ton of innovation. And if we think about the big theme and like, like I said, we're still relatively early in this, in this journey towards kind of that mission of data intelligence that really bolts and compelling mission, either customers are still start, are just starting on that, on that journey. We wanna make it as easy as possible for the, for our organization to actually get started because we know that's important that they do. And for our organization and customers that have been with us for some time, there's still a tremendous amount of opportunity to kind of expand the platform further. And again, to make it easier for really to, to accomplish that mission and vision around that data citizen that everyone has access to trustworthy data in a very easy, easy way. So that's really the theme of a lot of the innovation that we're driving. >>A lot of kind of ease of adoption, ease of use, but also then how do we make sure that lio becomes this kind of mission critical enterprise platform from a security performance architecture scale supportability that we're truly able to deliver that kind of an enterprise mission critical platform. And so that's the big theme from an innovation perspective, From a product perspective, a lot of new innovation that we're really excited about. A couple of highlights. One is around data marketplace. Again, a lot of our customers have plans in that direction, how to make it easy. How do we make, how do we make available to true kind of shopping experience that anybody in your organization can, in a very easy search first way, find the right data product, find the right dataset, that data can then consume usage analytics. How do you, how do we help organizations drive adoption, tell them where they're working really well and where they have opportunities homepages again to, to make things easy for, for people, for anyone in your organization to kind of get started with ppia, you mentioned workflow designer, again, we have a very powerful enterprise platform. >>One of our key differentiators is the ability to really drive a lot of automation through workflows. And now we provided a new low code, no code kind of workflow designer experience. So, so really customers can take it to the next level. There's a lot more new product around K Bear Protect, which in partnership with Snowflake, which has been a strategic investor in kib, focused on how do we make access governance easier? How do we, how do we, how are we able to make sure that as you move to the cloud, things like access management, masking around sensitive data, PII data is managed as much more effective, effective rate, really excited about that product. There's more around data quality. Again, how do we, how do we get that deployed as easily and quickly and widely as we can? Moving that to the cloud has been a big part of our strategy. >>So we launch more data quality cloud product as well as making use of those, those native compute capabilities in platforms like Snowflake, Data, Bricks, Google, Amazon, and others. And so we are bettering a capability, a capability that we call push down. So actually pushing down the computer and data quality, the monitoring into the underlying platform, which again, from a scale performance and ease of use perspective is gonna make a massive difference. And then more broadly, we, we talked a little bit about the ecosystem. Again, integrations, we talk about being able to connect to every source. Integrations are absolutely critical and we're really excited to deliver new integrations with Snowflake, Azure and Google Cloud storage as well. So there's a lot coming out. The, the team has been work at work really hard and we are really, really excited about what we are coming, what we're bringing to markets. >>Yeah, a lot going on there. I wonder if you could give us your, your closing thoughts. I mean, you, you talked about, you know, the marketplace, you know, you think about data mesh, you think of data as product, one of the key principles you think about monetization. This is really different than what we've been used to in data, which is just getting the technology to work has been been so hard. So how do you see sort of the future and, you know, give us the, your closing thoughts please? >>Yeah, absolutely. And I, and I think we we're really at this pivotal moment, and I think you said it well. We, we all know the constraint and the challenges with data, how to actually do data at scale. And while we've seen a ton of innovation on the infrastructure side, we fundamentally believe that just getting a faster database is important, but it's not gonna fully solve the challenges and truly kind of deliver on the opportunity. And that's why now is really the time to deliver this data intelligence vision, this data intelligence platform. We are still early, making it as easy as we can. It's kind of, of our, it's our mission. And so I'm really, really excited to see what we, what we are gonna, how the marks gonna evolve over the next, next few quarters and years. I think the trend is clearly there when we talk about data mesh, this kind of federated approach folks on data products is just another signal that we believe that a lot of our organization are now at the time. >>The understanding need to go beyond just the technology. I really, really think about how do we actually scale data as a business function, just like we've done with it, with, with hr, with, with sales and marketing, with finance. That's how we need to think about data. I think now is the time given the economic environment that we are in much more focus on control, much more focused on productivity efficiency and now's the time. We need to look beyond just the technology and infrastructure to think of how to scale data, how to manage data at scale. >>Yeah, it's a new era. The next 10 years of data won't be like the last, as I always say. Felix, thanks so much and good luck in, in San Diego. I know you're gonna crush it out there. >>Thank you Dave. >>Yeah, it's a great spot for an in-person event and, and of course the content post event is gonna be available@collibra.com and you can of course catch the cube coverage@thecube.net and all the news@siliconangle.com. This is Dave Valante for the cube, your leader in enterprise and emerging tech coverage. >>Hi, I'm Jay from Collibra's Data Office. Today I want to talk to you about Collibra's data intelligence cloud. We often say Collibra is a single system of engagement for all of your data. Now, when I say data, I mean data in the broadest sense of the word, including reference and metadata. Think of metrics, reports, APIs, systems, policies, and even business processes that produce or consume data. Now, the beauty of this platform is that it ensures all of your users have an easy way to find, understand, trust, and access data. But how do you get started? Well, here are seven steps to help you get going. One, start with the data. What's data intelligence? Without data leverage the Collibra data catalog to automatically profile and classify your enterprise data wherever that data lives, databases, data lakes or data warehouses, whether on the cloud or on premise. >>Two, you'll then wanna organize the data and you'll do that with data communities. This can be by department, find a business or functional team, however your organization organizes work and accountability. And for that you'll establish community owners, communities, make it easy for people to navigate through the platform, find the data and will help create a sense of belonging for users. An important and related side note here, we find it's typical in many organizations that data is thought of is just an asset and IT and data offices are viewed as the owners of it and who are really the central teams performing analytics as a service provider to the enterprise. We believe data is more than an asset, it's a true product that can be converted to value. And that also means establishing business ownership of data where that strategy and ROI come together with subject matter expertise. >>Okay, three. Next, back to those communities there, the data owners should explain and define their data, not just the tables and columns, but also the related business terms, metrics and KPIs. These objects we call these assets are typically organized into business glossaries and data dictionaries. I definitely recommend starting with the topics that are most important to the business. Four, those steps that enable you and your users to have some fun with it. Linking everything together builds your knowledge graph and also known as a metadata graph by linking or relating these assets together. For example, a data set to a KPI to a report now enables your users to see what we call the lineage diagram that visualizes where the data in your dashboards actually came from and what the data means and who's responsible for it. Speaking of which, here's five. Leverage the calibra trusted business reporting solution on the marketplace, which comes with workflows for those owners to certify their reports, KPIs, and data sets. >>This helps them force their trust in their data. Six, easy to navigate dashboards or landing pages right in your platform for your company's business processes are the most effective way for everyone to better understand and take action on data. Here's a pro tip, use the dashboard design kit on the marketplace to help you build compelling dashboards. Finally, seven, promote the value of this to your users and be sure to schedule enablement office hours and new employee onboarding sessions to get folks excited about what you've built and implemented. Better yet, invite all of those community and data owners to these sessions so that they can show off the value that they've created. Those are my seven tips to get going with Collibra. I hope these have been useful. For more information, be sure to visit collibra.com. >>Welcome to the Cube's coverage of Data Citizens 2022 Collibra's customer event. My name is Dave Valante. With us is Kirk Hasselbeck, who's the vice president of Data Quality of Collibra Kirk, good to see you. Welcome. >>Thanks for having me, Dave. Excited to be here. >>You bet. Okay, we're gonna discuss data quality observability. It's a hot trend right now. You founded a data quality company, OWL dq, and it was acquired by Collibra last year. Congratulations. And now you lead data quality at Collibra. So we're hearing a lot about data quality right now. Why is it such a priority? Take us through your thoughts on that. >>Yeah, absolutely. It's, it's definitely exciting times for data quality, which you're right, has been around for a long time. So why now and why is it so much more exciting than it used to be? I think it's a bit stale, but we all know that companies use more data than ever before and the variety has changed and the volume has grown. And, and while I think that remains true, there are a couple other hidden factors at play that everyone's so interested in as, as to why this is becoming so important now. And, and I guess you could kind of break this down simply and think about if Dave, you and I were gonna build, you know, a new healthcare application and monitor the heartbeat of individuals, imagine if we get that wrong, you know, what the ramifications could be, what, what those incidents would look like, or maybe better yet, we try to build a, a new trading algorithm with a crossover strategy where the 50 day crosses the, the 10 day average. >>And imagine if the data underlying the inputs to that is incorrect. We will probably have major financial ramifications in that sense. So, you know, it kind of starts there where everybody's realizing that we're all data companies and if we are using bad data, we're likely making incorrect business decisions. But I think there's kind of two other things at play. You know, I, I bought a car not too long ago and my dad called and said, How many cylinders does it have? And I realized in that moment, you know, I might have failed him because, cause I didn't know. And, and I used to ask those types of questions about any lock brakes and cylinders and, and you know, if it's manual or, or automatic and, and I realized I now just buy a car that I hope works. And it's so complicated with all the computer chips, I, I really don't know that much about it. >>And, and that's what's happening with data. We're just loading so much of it. And it's so complex that the way companies consume them in the IT function is that they bring in a lot of data and then they syndicate it out to the business. And it turns out that the, the individuals loading and consuming all of this data for the company actually may not know that much about the data itself, and that's not even their job anymore. So we'll talk more about that in a minute, but that's really what's setting the foreground for this observability play and why everybody's so interested. It, it's because we're becoming less close to the intricacies of the data and we just expect it to always be there and be correct. >>You know, the other thing too about data quality, and for years we did the MIT CDO IQ event, we didn't do it last year, Covid messed everything up. But the observation I would make there thoughts is, is it data quality? Used to be information quality used to be this back office function, and then it became sort of front office with financial services and government and healthcare, these highly regulated industries. And then the whole chief data officer thing happened and people were realizing, well, they sort of flipped the bit from sort of a data as a, a risk to data as a, as an asset. And now as we say, we're gonna talk about observability. And so it's really become front and center just the whole quality issue because data's so fundamental, hasn't it? >>Yeah, absolutely. I mean, let's imagine we pull up our phones right now and I go to my, my favorite stock ticker app and I check out the NASDAQ market cap. I really have no idea if that's the correct number. I know it's a number, it looks large, it's in a numeric field. And, and that's kind of what's going on. There's, there's so many numbers and they're coming from all of these different sources and data providers and they're getting consumed and passed along. But there isn't really a way to tactically put controls on every number and metric across every field we plan to monitor, but with the scale that we've achieved in early days, even before calibra. And what's been so exciting is we have these types of observation techniques, these data monitors that can actually track past performance of every field at scale. And why that's so interesting and why I think the CDO is, is listening right intently nowadays to this topic is, so maybe we could surface all of these problems with the right solution of data observability and with the right scale and then just be alerted on breaking trends. So we're sort of shifting away from this world of must write a condition and then when that condition breaks, that was always known as a break record. But what about breaking trends and root cause analysis? And is it possible to do that, you know, with less human intervention? And so I think most people are seeing now that it's going to have to be a software tool and a computer system. It's, it's not ever going to be based on one or two domain experts anymore. >>So, So how does data observability relate to data quality? Are they sort of two sides of the same coin? Are they, are they cousins? What's your perspective on that? >>Yeah, it's, it's super interesting. It's an emerging market. So the language is changing a lot of the topic and areas changing the way that I like to say it or break it down because the, the lingo is constantly moving is, you know, as a target on this space is really breaking records versus breaking trends. And I could write a condition when this thing happens, it's wrong and when it doesn't it's correct. Or I could look for a trend and I'll give you a good example. You know, everybody's talking about fresh data and stale data and, and why would that matter? Well, if your data never arrived or only part of it arrived or didn't arrive on time, it's likely stale and there will not be a condition that you could write that would show you all the good in the bads. That was kind of your, your traditional approach of data quality break records. But your modern day approach is you lost a significant portion of your data, or it did not arrive on time to make that decision accurately on time. And that's a hidden concern. Some people call this freshness, we call it stale data, but it all points to the same idea of the thing that you're observing may not be a data quality condition anymore. It may be a breakdown in the data pipeline. And with thousands of data pipelines in play for every company out there there, there's more than a couple of these happening every day. >>So what's the Collibra angle on all this stuff made the acquisition, you got data quality observability coming together, you guys have a lot of expertise in, in this area, but you hear providence of data, you just talked about, you know, stale data, you know, the, the whole trend toward real time. How is Calibra approaching the problem and what's unique about your approach? >>Well, I think where we're fortunate is with our background, myself and team, we sort of lived this problem for a long time, you know, in, in the Wall Street days about a decade ago. And we saw it from many different angles. And what we came up with before it was called data observability or reliability was basically the, the underpinnings of that. So we're a little bit ahead of the curve there when most people evaluate our solution, it's more advanced than some of the observation techniques that that currently exist. But we've also always covered data quality and we believe that people want to know more, they need more insights, and they want to see break records and breaking trends together so they can correlate the root cause. And we hear that all the time. I have so many things going wrong, just show me the big picture, help me find the thing that if I were to fix it today would make the most impact. So we're really focused on root cause analysis, business impact, connecting it with lineage and catalog metadata. And as that grows, you can actually achieve total data governance at this point with the acquisition of what was a Lineage company years ago, and then my company Ldq now Collibra, Data quality Collibra may be the best positioned for total data governance and intelligence in the space. >>Well, you mentioned financial services a couple of times and some examples, remember the flash crash in 2010. Nobody had any idea what that was, you know, they just said, Oh, it's a glitch, you know, so they didn't understand the root cause of it. So this is a really interesting topic to me. So we know at Data Citizens 22 that you're announcing, you gotta announce new products, right? You're yearly event what's, what's new. Give us a sense as to what products are coming out, but specifically around data quality and observability. >>Absolutely. There's this, you know, there's always a next thing on the forefront. And the one right now is these hyperscalers in the cloud. So you have databases like Snowflake and Big Query and Data Bricks is Delta Lake and SQL Pushdown. And ultimately what that means is a lot of people are storing in loading data even faster in a SaaS like model. And we've started to hook in to these databases. And while we've always worked with the the same databases in the past, they're supported today we're doing something called Native Database pushdown, where the entire compute and data activity happens in the database. And why that is so interesting and powerful now is everyone's concerned with something called Egress. Did your, my data that I've spent all this time and money with my security team securing ever leave my hands, did it ever leave my secure VPC as they call it? >>And with these native integrations that we're building and about to unveil, here's kind of a sneak peek for, for next week at Data Citizens. We're now doing all compute and data operations in databases like Snowflake. And what that means is with no install and no configuration, you could log into the Collibra data quality app and have all of your data quality running inside the database that you've probably already picked as your your go forward team selection secured database of choice. So we're really excited about that. And I think if you look at the whole landscape of network cost, egress, cost, data storage and compute, what people are realizing is it's extremely efficient to do it in the way that we're about to release here next week. >>So this is interesting because what you just described, you know, you mentioned Snowflake, you mentioned Google, Oh actually you mentioned yeah, data bricks. You know, Snowflake has the data cloud. If you put everything in the data cloud, okay, you're cool, but then Google's got the open data cloud. If you heard, you know, Google next and now data bricks doesn't call it the data cloud, but they have like the open source data cloud. So you have all these different approaches and there's really no way up until now I'm, I'm hearing to, to really understand the relationships between all those and have confidence across, you know, it's like Jak Dani, you should just be a note on the mesh. And I don't care if it's a data warehouse or a data lake or where it comes from, but it's a point on that mesh and I need tooling to be able to have confidence that my data is governed and has the proper lineage, providence. And, and, and that's what you're bringing to the table, Is that right? Did I get that right? >>Yeah, that's right. And it's, for us, it's, it's not that we haven't been working with those great cloud databases, but it's the fact that we can send them the instructions now, we can send them the, the operating ability to crunch all of the calculations, the governance, the quality, and get the answers. And what that's doing, it's basically zero network costs, zero egress cost, zero latency of time. And so when you were to log into Big Query tomorrow using our tool or like, or say Snowflake for example, you have instant data quality metrics, instant profiling, instant lineage and access privacy controls, things of that nature that just become less onerous. What we're seeing is there's so much technology out there, just like all of the major brands that you mentioned, but how do we make it easier? The future is about less clicks, faster time to value, faster scale, and eventually lower cost. And, and we think that this positions us to be the leader there. >>I love this example because, you know, Barry talks about, wow, the cloud guys are gonna own the world and, and of course now we're seeing that the ecosystem is finding so much white space to add value, connect across cloud. Sometimes we call it super cloud and so, or inter clouding. All right, Kirk, give us your, your final thoughts and on on the trends that we've talked about and Data Citizens 22. >>Absolutely. Well, I think, you know, one big trend is discovery and classification. Seeing that across the board, people used to know it was a zip code and nowadays with the amount of data that's out there, they wanna know where everything is, where their sensitive data is. If it's redundant, tell me everything inside of three to five seconds. And with that comes, they want to know in all of these hyperscale databases how fast they can get controls and insights out of their tools. So I think we're gonna see more one click solutions, more SAS based solutions and solutions that hopefully prove faster time to value on, on all of these modern cloud platforms. >>Excellent. All right, Kurt Hasselbeck, thanks so much for coming on the Cube and previewing Data Citizens 22. Appreciate it. >>Thanks for having me, Dave. >>You're welcome. Right, and thank you for watching. Keep it right there for more coverage from the Cube. Welcome to the Cube's virtual Coverage of Data Citizens 2022. My name is Dave Valante and I'm here with Laura Sellers, who's the Chief Product Officer at Collibra, the host of Data Citizens. Laura, welcome. Good to see you. >>Thank you. Nice to be here. >>Yeah, your keynote at Data Citizens this year focused on, you know, your mission to drive ease of use and scale. Now when I think about historically fast access to the right data at the right time in a form that's really easily consumable, it's been kind of challenging, especially for business users. Can can you explain to our audience why this matters so much and what's actually different today in the data ecosystem to make this a reality? >>Yeah, definitely. So I think what we really need and what I hear from customers every single day is that we need a new approach to data management and our product teams. What inspired me to come to Calibra a little bit a over a year ago was really the fact that they're very focused on bringing trusted data to more users across more sources for more use cases. And so as we look at what we're announcing with these innovations of ease of use and scale, it's really about making teams more productive in getting started with and the ability to manage data across the entire organization. So we've been very focused on richer experiences, a broader ecosystem of partners, as well as a platform that delivers performance, scale and security that our users and teams need and demand. So as we look at, Oh, go ahead. >>I was gonna say, you know, when I look back at like the last 10 years, it was all about getting the technology to work and it was just so complicated. But, but please carry on. I'd love to hear more about this. >>Yeah, I, I really, you know, Collibra is a system of engagement for data and we really are working on bringing that entire system of engagement to life for everyone to leverage here and now. So what we're announcing from our ease of use side of the world is first our data marketplace. This is the ability for all users to discover and access data quickly and easily shop for it, if you will. The next thing that we're also introducing is the new homepage. It's really about the ability to drive adoption and have users find data more quickly. And then the two more areas of the ease of use side of the world is our world of usage analytics. And one of the big pushes and passions we have at Collibra is to help with this data driven culture that all companies are trying to create. And also helping with data literacy, with something like usage analytics, it's really about driving adoption of the CLE platform, understanding what's working, who's accessing it, what's not. And then finally we're also introducing what's called workflow designer. And we love our workflows at Libra, it's a big differentiator to be able to automate business processes. The designer is really about a way for more people to be able to create those workflows, collaborate on those workflow flows, as well as people to be able to easily interact with them. So a lot of exciting things when it comes to ease of use to make it easier for all users to find data. >>Y yes, there's definitely a lot to unpack there. I I, you know, you mentioned this idea of, of of, of shopping for the data. That's interesting to me. Why this analogy, metaphor or analogy, I always get those confused. I let's go with analogy. Why is it so important to data consumers? >>I think when you look at the world of data, and I talked about this system of engagement, it's really about making it more accessible to the masses. And what users are used to is a shopping experience like your Amazon, if you will. And so having a consumer grade experience where users can quickly go in and find the data, trust that data, understand where the data's coming from, and then be able to quickly access it, is the idea of being able to shop for it, just making it as simple as possible and really speeding the time to value for any of the business analysts, data analysts out there. >>Yeah, I think when you, you, you see a lot of discussion about rethinking data architectures, putting data in the hands of the users and business people, decentralized data and of course that's awesome. I love that. But of course then you have to have self-service infrastructure and you have to have governance. And those are really challenging. And I think so many organizations, they're facing adoption challenges, you know, when it comes to enabling teams generally, especially domain experts to adopt new data technologies, you know, like the, the tech comes fast and furious. You got all these open source projects and get really confusing. Of course it risks security, governance and all that good stuff. You got all this jargon. So where do you see, you know, the friction in adopting new data technologies? What's your point of view and how can organizations overcome these challenges? >>You're, you're dead on. There's so much technology and there's so much to stay on top of, which is part of the friction, right? It's just being able to stay ahead of, of and understand all the technologies that are coming. You also look at as there's so many more sources of data and people are migrating data to the cloud and they're migrating to new sources. Where the friction comes is really that ability to understand where the data came from, where it's moving to, and then also to be able to put the access controls on top of it. So people are only getting access to the data that they should be getting access to. So one of the other things we're announcing with, with all of the innovations that are coming is what we're doing around performance and scale. So with all of the data movement, with all of the data that's out there, the first thing we're launching in the world of performance and scale is our world of data quality. >>It's something that Collibra has been working on for the past year and a half, but we're launching the ability to have data quality in the cloud. So it's currently an on-premise offering, but we'll now be able to carry that over into the cloud for us to manage that way. We're also introducing the ability to push down data quality into Snowflake. So this is, again, one of those challenges is making sure that that data that you have is d is is high quality as you move forward. And so really another, we're just reducing friction. You already have Snowflake stood up. It's not another machine for you to manage, it's just push down capabilities into Snowflake to be able to track that quality. Another thing that we're launching with that is what we call Collibra Protect. And this is that ability for users to be able to ingest metadata, understand where the PII data is, and then set policies up on top of it. So very quickly be able to set policies and have them enforced at the data level. So anybody in the organization is only getting access to the data they should have access to. >>Here's Topica data quality is interesting. It's something that I've followed for a number of years. It used to be a back office function, you know, and really confined only to highly regulated industries like financial services and healthcare and government. You know, you look back over a decade ago, you didn't have this worry about personal information, g gdpr, and, you know, California Consumer Privacy Act all becomes, becomes so much important. The cloud is really changed things in terms of performance and scale and of course partnering for, for, with Snowflake it's all about sharing data and monetization, anything but a back office function. So it was kind of smart that you guys were early on and of course attracting them and as a, as an investor as well was very strong validation. What can you tell us about the nature of the relationship with Snowflake and specifically inter interested in sort of joint engineering or, and product innovation efforts, you know, beyond the standard go to market stuff? >>Definitely. So you mentioned there were a strategic investor in Calibra about a year ago. A little less than that I guess. We've been working with them though for over a year really tightly with their product and engineering teams to make sure that Collibra is adding real value. Our unified platform is touching pieces of our unified platform or touching all pieces of Snowflake. And when I say that, what I mean is we're first, you know, able to ingest data with Snowflake, which, which has always existed. We're able to profile and classify that data we're announcing with Calibra Protect this week that you're now able to create those policies on top of Snowflake and have them enforce. So again, people can get more value out of their snowflake more quickly as far as time to value with, with our policies for all business users to be able to create. >>We're also announcing Snowflake Lineage 2.0. So this is the ability to take stored procedures in Snowflake and understand the lineage of where did the data come from, how was it transformed with within Snowflake as well as the data quality. Pushdown, as I mentioned, data quality, you brought it up. It is a new, it is a, a big industry push and you know, one of the things I think Gartner mentioned is people are losing up to $15 million without having great data quality. So this push down capability for Snowflake really is again, a big ease of use push for us at Collibra of that ability to, to push it into snowflake, take advantage of the data, the data source, and the engine that already lives there and get the right and make sure you have the right quality. >>I mean, the nice thing about Snowflake, if you play in the Snowflake sandbox, you, you, you, you can get sort of a, you know, high degree of confidence that the data sharing can be done in a safe way. Bringing, you know, Collibra into the, into the story allows me to have that data quality and, and that governance that I, that I need. You know, we've said many times on the cube that one of the notable differences in cloud this decade versus last decade, I mean ob there are obvious differences just in terms of scale and scope, but it's shaping up to be about the strength of the ecosystems. That's really a hallmark of these big cloud players. I mean they're, it's a key factor for innovating, accelerating product delivery, filling gaps in, in the hyperscale offerings cuz you got more stack, you know, mature stack capabilities and you know, it creates this flywheel momentum as we often say. But, so my question is, how do you work with the hyperscalers? Like whether it's AWS or Google, whomever, and what do you see as your role and what's the Collibra sweet spot? >>Yeah, definitely. So, you know, one of the things I mentioned early on is the broader ecosystem of partners is what it's all about. And so we have that strong partnership with Snowflake. We also are doing more with Google around, you know, GCP and kbra protect there, but also tighter data plex integration. So similar to what you've seen with our strategic moves around Snowflake and, and really covering the broad ecosystem of what Collibra can do on top of that data source. We're extending that to the world of Google as well and the world of data plex. We also have great partners in SI's Infosys is somebody we spoke with at the conference who's done a lot of great work with Levi's as they're really important to help people with their whole data strategy and driving that data driven culture and, and Collibra being the core of it. >>Hi Laura, we're gonna, we're gonna end it there, but I wonder if you could kind of put a bow on, you know, this year, the event your, your perspectives. So just give us your closing thoughts. >>Yeah, definitely. So I, I wanna say this is one of the biggest releases Collibra's ever had. Definitely the biggest one since I've been with the company a little over a year. We have all these great new product innovations coming to really drive the ease of use to make data more valuable for users everywhere and, and companies everywhere. And so it's all about everybody being able to easily find, understand, and trust and get access to that data going forward. >>Well congratulations on all the pro progress. It was great to have you on the cube first time I believe, and really appreciate you, you taking the time with us. >>Yes, thank you for your time. >>You're very welcome. Okay, you're watching the coverage of Data Citizens 2022 on the cube, your leader in enterprise and emerging tech coverage. >>So data modernization oftentimes means moving some of your storage and computer to the cloud where you get the benefit of scale and security and so on. But ultimately it doesn't take away the silos that you have. We have more locations, more tools and more processes with which we try to get value from this data. To do that at scale in an organization, people involved in this process, they have to understand each other. So you need to unite those people across those tools, processes, and systems with a shared language. When I say customer, do you understand the same thing as you hearing customer? Are we counting them in the same way so that shared language unites us and that gives the opportunity for the organization as a whole to get the maximum value out of their data assets and then they can democratize data so everyone can properly use that shared language to find, understand, and trust the data asset that's available. >>And that's where Collibra comes in. We provide a centralized system of engagement that works across all of those locations and combines all of those different user types across the whole business. At Collibra, we say United by data and that also means that we're united by data with our customers. So here is some data about some of our customers. There was the case of an online do it yourself platform who grew their revenue almost three times from a marketing campaign that provided the right product in the right hands of the right people. In other case that comes to mind is from a financial services organization who saved over 800 K every year because they were able to reuse the same data in different kinds of reports and before there was spread out over different tools and processes and silos, and now the platform brought them together so they realized, oh, we're actually using the same data, let's find a way to make this more efficient. And the last example that comes to mind is that of a large home loan, home mortgage, mortgage loan provider where they have a very complex landscape, a very complex architecture legacy in the cloud, et cetera. And they're using our software, they're using our platform to unite all the people and those processes and tools to get a common view of data to manage their compliance at scale. >>Hey everyone, I'm Lisa Martin covering Data Citizens 22, brought to you by Collibra. This next conversation is gonna focus on the importance of data culture. One of our Cube alumni is back, Stan Christians is Collibra's co-founder and it's Chief Data citizens. Stan, it's great to have you back on the cube. >>Hey Lisa, nice to be. >>So we're gonna be talking about the importance of data culture, data intelligence, maturity, all those great things. When we think about the data revolution that every business is going through, you know, it's so much more than technology innovation. It also really re requires cultural transformation, community transformation. Those are challenging for customers to undertake. Talk to us about what you mean by data citizenship and the role that creating a data culture plays in that journey. >>Right. So as you know, our event is called Data Citizens because we believe that in the end, a data citizen is anyone who uses data to do their job. And we believe that today's organizations, you have a lot of people, most of the employees in an organization are somehow gonna to be a data citizen, right? So you need to make sure that these people are aware of it. You need that. People have skills and competencies to do with data what necessary and that's on, all right? So what does it mean to have a good data culture? It means that if you're building a beautiful dashboard to try and convince your boss, we need to make this decision that your boss is also open to and able to interpret, you know, the data presented in dashboard to actually make that decision and take that action. Right? >>And once you have that why to the organization, that's when you have a good data culture. Now that's continuous effort for most organizations because they're always moving, somehow they're hiring new people and it has to be continuous effort because we've seen that on the hand. Organizations continue challenged their data sources and where all the data is flowing, right? Which in itself creates a lot of risk. But also on the other set hand of the equation, you have the benefit. You know, you might look at regulatory drivers like, we have to do this, right? But it's, it's much better right now to consider the competitive drivers, for example, and we did an IDC study earlier this year, quite interesting. I can recommend anyone to it. And one of the conclusions they found as they surveyed over a thousand people across organizations worldwide is that the ones who are higher in maturity. >>So the, the organizations that really look at data as an asset, look at data as a product and actively try to be better at it, don't have three times as good a business outcome as the ones who are lower on the maturity scale, right? So you can say, ok, I'm doing this, you know, data culture for everyone, awakening them up as data citizens. I'm doing this for competitive reasons, I'm doing this re reasons you're trying to bring both of those together and the ones that get data intelligence right, are successful and competitive. That's, and that's what we're seeing out there in the market. >>Absolutely. We know that just generally stand right, the organizations that are, are really creating a, a data culture and enabling everybody within the organization to become data citizens are, We know that in theory they're more competitive, they're more successful. But the IDC study that you just mentioned demonstrates they're three times more successful and competitive than their peers. Talk about how Collibra advises customers to create that community, that culture of data when it might be challenging for an organization to adapt culturally. >>Of course, of course it's difficult for an organization to adapt but it's also necessary, as you just said, imagine that, you know, you're a modern day organization, laptops, what have you, you're not using those, right? Or you know, you're delivering them throughout organization, but not enabling your colleagues to actually do something with that asset. Same thing as through with data today, right? If you're not properly using the data asset and competitors are, they're gonna to get more advantage. So as to how you get this done, establish this. There's angles to look at, Lisa. So one angle is obviously the leadership whereby whoever is the boss of data in the organization, you typically have multiple bosses there, like achieve data officers. Sometimes there's, there's multiple, but they may have a different title, right? So I'm just gonna summarize it as a data leader for a second. >>So whoever that is, they need to make sure that there's a clear vision, a clear strategy for data. And that strategy needs to include the monetization aspect. How are you going to get value from data? Yes. Now that's one part because then you can leadership in the organization and also the business value. And that's important. Cause those people, their job in essence really is to make everyone in the organization think about data as an asset. And I think that's the second part of the equation of getting that right, is it's not enough to just have that leadership out there, but you also have to get the hearts and minds of the data champions across the organization. You, I really have to win them over. And if you have those two combined and obviously a good technology to, you know, connect those people and have them execute on their responsibilities such as a data intelligence platform like s then the in place to really start upgrading that culture inch by inch if you'll, >>Yes, I like that. The recipe for success. So you are the co-founder of Collibra. You've worn many different hats along this journey. Now you're building Collibra's own data office. I like how before we went live, we were talking about Calibra is drinking its own champagne. I always loved to hear stories about that. You're speaking at Data Citizens 2022. Talk to us about how you are building a data culture within Collibra and what maybe some of the specific projects are that Collibra's data office is working on. >>Yes, and it is indeed data citizens. There are a ton of speaks here, are very excited. You know, we have Barb from m MIT speaking about data monetization. We have Dilla at the last minute. So really exciting agen agenda. Can't wait to get back out there essentially. So over the years at, we've doing this since two and eight, so a good years and I think we have another decade of work ahead in the market, just to be very clear. Data is here to stick around as are we. And myself, you know, when you start a company, we were for people in a, if you, so everybody's wearing all sorts of hat at time. But over the years I've run, you know, presales that sales partnerships, product cetera. And as our company got a little bit biggish, we're now thousand two. Something like people in the company. >>I believe systems and processes become a lot important. So we said you CBRA isn't the size our customers we're getting there in of organization structure, process systems, et cetera. So we said it's really time for us to put our money where is and to our own data office, which is what we were seeing customers', organizations worldwide. And they organizations have HR units, they have a finance unit and over time they'll all have a department if you'll, that is responsible somehow for the data. So we said, ok, let's try to set an examples that other people can take away with it, right? Can take away from it. So we set up a data strategy, we started building data products, took care of the data infrastructure. That's sort of good stuff. And in doing all of that, ISA exactly as you said, we said, okay, we need to also use our product and our own practices and from that use, learn how we can make the product better, learn how we make, can make the practice better and share that learning with all the, and on, on the Monday mornings, we sometimes refer to eating our dog foods on Friday evenings. >>We referred to that drinking our own champagne. I like it. So we, we had a, we had the driver to do this. You know, there's a clear business reason. So we involved, we included that in the data strategy and that's a little bit of our origin. Now how, how do we organize this? We have three pillars, and by no means is this a template that everyone should, this is just the organization that works at our company, but it can serve as an inspiration. So we have a pillar, which is data science. The data product builders, if you'll or the people who help the business build data products. We have the data engineers who help keep the lights on for that data platform to make sure that the products, the data products can run, the data can flow and you know, the quality can be checked. >>And then we have a data intelligence or data governance builders where we have those data governance, data intelligence stakeholders who help the business as a sort of data partner to the business stakeholders. So that's how we've organized it. And then we started following the CBRA approach, which is, well, what are the challenges that our business stakeholders have in hr, finance, sales, marketing all over? And how can data help overcome those challenges? And from those use cases, we then just started to build a map and started execution use of the use case. And a important ones are very simple. We them with our, our customers as well, people talking about the cata, right? The catalog for the data scientists to know what's in their data lake, for example, and for the people in and privacy. So they have their process registry and they can see how the data flows. >>So that's a starting place and that turns into a marketplace so that if new analysts and data citizens join kbra, they immediately have a place to go to, to look at, see, ok, what data is out there for me as an analyst or a data scientist or whatever to do my job, right? So they can immediately get access data. And another one that we is around trusted business. We're seeing that since, you know, self-service BI allowed everyone to make beautiful dashboards, you know, pie, pie charts. I always, my pet pee is the pie chart because I love buy and you shouldn't always be using pie charts. But essentially there's become proliferation of those reports. And now executives don't really know, okay, should I trust this report or that report the reporting on the same thing. But the numbers seem different, right? So that's why we have trusted this reporting. So we know if a, the dashboard, a data product essentially is built, we not that all the right steps are being followed and that whoever is consuming that can be quite confident in the result either, Right. And that silver browser, right? Absolutely >>Decay. >>Exactly. Yes, >>Absolutely. Talk a little bit about some of the, the key performance indicators that you're using to measure the success of the data office. What are some of those KPIs? >>KPIs and measuring is a big topic in the, in the data chief data officer profession, I would say, and again, it always varies with to your organization, but there's a few that we use that might be of interest. Use those pillars, right? And we have metrics across those pillars. So for example, a pillar on the data engineering side is gonna be more related to that uptime, right? Are the, is the data platform up and running? Are the data products up and running? Is the quality in them good enough? Is it going up? Is it going down? What's the usage? But also, and especially if you're in the cloud and if consumption's a big thing, you have metrics around cost, for example, right? So that's one set of examples. Another one is around the data sciences and products. Are people using them? Are they getting value from it? >>Can we calculate that value in ay perspective, right? Yeah. So that we can to the rest of the business continue to say we're tracking all those numbers and those numbers indicate that value is generated and how much value estimated in that region. And then you have some data intelligence, data governance metrics, which is, for example, you have a number of domains in a data mesh. People talk about being the owner of a data domain, for example, like product or, or customer. So how many of those domains do you have covered? How many of them are already part of the program? How many of them have owners assigned? How well are these owners organized, executing on their responsibilities? How many tickets are open closed? How many data products are built according to process? And so and so forth. So these are an set of examples of, of KPIs. There's a, there's a lot more, but hopefully those can already inspire the audience. >>Absolutely. So we've, we've talked about the rise cheap data offices, it's only accelerating. You mentioned this is like a 10 year journey. So if you were to look into a crystal ball, what do you see in terms of the maturation of data offices over the next decade? >>So we, we've seen indeed the, the role sort of grow up, I think in, in thousand 10 there may have been like 10 achieve data officers or something. Gartner has exact numbers on them, but then they grew, you know, industries and the number is estimated to be about 20,000 right now. Wow. 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We appreciate it. >>Thanks for having me over >>From Data Citizens 22, I'm Lisa Martin, you're watching The Cube, the leader in live tech coverage. >>Okay, this concludes our coverage of Data Citizens 2022, brought to you by Collibra. Remember, all these videos are available on demand@thecube.net. And don't forget to check out silicon angle.com for all the news and wiki bod.com for our weekly breaking analysis series where we cover many data topics and share survey research from our partner ETR Enterprise Technology Research. If you want more information on the products announced at Data Citizens, go to collibra.com. There are tons of resources there. You'll find analyst reports, product demos. It's really worthwhile to check those out. Thanks for watching our program and digging into Data Citizens 2022 on the Cube, your leader in enterprise and emerging tech coverage. We'll see you soon.

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largely about getting the technology to work. Now the cloud is definitely helping with that, but also how do you automate governance? 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Stijn Christiaens | Data Citizen 22


 

>>Hey everyone. I'm Lisa Martin covering Data Citizens 22, brought to you by Collibra. This next conversation is gonna focus on the importance of data culture. One of our Cube alumni is back, Stan Christians is Collibra's co-founder and it's Chief Data citizen. Stan, it's great to have you back on the cube. >>Hey, Lisa, nice to be here. >>So we're gonna be talking about the importance of data culture, data intelligence, maturity, all those great things. When we think about the data revolution that every business is going through, you know, so much more than technology innovation, it also really re requires cultural transformation, community transformation. Those are challenging for customers to undertake. Talk to us about what you mean by data citizenship and the role that creating a data culture plays in that journey. >>Right. So as you know, our event is called Data Citizens because we believe that in the end, a data citizen is anyone who uses data to do their job. And we believe that today's organizations, you have a lot of people, most of the employees in an organization are somehow going to be a data citizen, right? So you need to make sure that these people are aware of it. You need to make sure that these people have the skills and competencies to do with data what is necessary. And that's on all levels, right? So what does it mean to have a good data culture? It means that if you're building a beautiful dashboard to try and convince your boss, we need to make this decision that your boss is also open to and able to interpret, you know, the data presented in that dashboard to actually make that decision and take that action, right? >>And once you have that why through the organization, that's when you have a good data culture. Now, that's a continuous effort for most organizations because they, they're always moving, somehow there, hiring new people. And it has to be a continuous effort because we've seen that on the one hand, organizations continue to be challenged with controlling their data sources and where all the data is flowing, right? Which in itself creates a lot of risk. But also on the other set hand of the equation, you have the benefits. You know, you might look at regulatory drivers like, we have to do this, right? But it's, it's much better right now to consider the competitive drivers, for example. And we did an IDC study earlier this year, quite interesting. I can recommend anyone to read it. And one of the conclusions they found as they surveyed over a thousand people across organizations worldwide is that the ones who are higher in maturity. >>So the, the organizations that really look at data as an asset, look at data as a product and actively try to be better at it, don't have three times as good a business outcome as the ones who are lower on the maturity scale, right? So you can say, Okay, I'm doing this, you know, data culture for everyone, wakening them up as data citizens. I'm doing this for competitive reasons, I'm doing this for regulatory reasons. You're trying to bring both of those together and the ones that get data intelligence right, are just going to be more successful and more competitive. That's our view, and that's what we're seeing out there in the market. >>Absolutely. We know that just generally stand right, The organizations that are, are really creating a, a data culture and enabling everybody within the organization to become data citizens are, We know that in theory they're more competitive, they're more successful. But the IDC study that you just mentioned demonstrates they're three times more successful and competitive than their peers. Talk about how Collibra advises customers to create that community, that culture of data when it might be challenging for an organization to adapt culturally. >>Of course, of course it's difficult for an organization to adapt, but it's also necessary, as you just said, imagine that, you know, you're a modern day organization, phones, laptops, what have you, you're not using those IT assets, right? Or you know, you're delivering them through your, throughout the organization, but not enabling your colleagues to actually do something with that asset. Same thing is true with data today, right? If you are not properly using the data assets and your competitors are, they're going to get more advantage. So as to how you get this zone or how you establish this culture, there's a few angles to look at. I would say, Lisa, so one angle is obviously the leadership angle whereby whoever is the boss of data in the organization, you typically have multiple bosses there, like achieve data officers. Sometimes there's, there's multiple, but they may have a different title, right? >>So I'm just gonna summarize it as a data leader for a second. So whoever that is, they need to make sure that there's a clear vision, a clear strategy for data. And that strategy needs to include the monetization aspect. How are you going to get value from data? Yes. Now that's one part because then you can clearly see the example of your leadership in the organization and also the business value. And that's important because those people, their job in essence really is to make everyone in the organization think about data as an asset. And I think that's the second part of the equation of getting that culture right, is it's not enough to just have that leadership out there, but you also have to get the hearts and minds of the data champions across the organization. You really have to win them over. And if you have those two combined and obviously a good technology to, you know, connect those people and have them execute on their responsibilities, such as as a data intelligence platform like Colibra, then you have the pieces in place to really start upgrading that culture inch by inch if youll, >>Yes, I like that. The recipe for success. So you are the co-founder of colibra. You've worn many different hats along this journey. Now you're building Collibra's own data office. I like how before we went live, we were talking about Collibra is drinking its own champagne. I always loved to hear stories about that. You're speaking at Data Citizens 2022. Talk to us about how you are building a data culture within Collibra and what maybe some of the specific projects are that Collibra's data office is working on. >>Yes, and it is indeed data citizens. There are a ton of speakers here, very excited. You know, we have Barb from MIT speaking about data monetization. We have dig pat at the last minute on the agenda. So really exciting agenda. Can't wait to get back out there. But essentially you're right. So over the years at cbra, we've been doing this now since 2008, so a good 15 years. And I think we have another decade of work ahead in the market, just to be very clear. Data is here to stick around as are we. And myself, you know, when you start a company, we were for people in a, in a garage if you will. So everybody's wearing all sorts of hat at that time. But over the years I've run, you know, pre-sales at colibra, I've run post-sales partnerships, product, et cetera. And as our company got a little bit biggish for now, 1,200, something like that, people in the company, I believe systems and processes become a lot more important, right? >>So we said, you know, Colibra isn't the size of our customers yet, but we're getting there in terms of organizations, structure, process systems, et cetera. So we said, it's really time for us to put our money where our mouth is and to set up our own data office, which is what we were seeing at all of our customers are doing, and which is what we're seeing that organizations worldwide are doing. And Gartner was predicting us as well. They said, Okay, organizations have an HR unit, they have a finance unit, and over time they'll all have a department, if you will, that is responsible somehow for the data. So we said, Okay, let's try to set a an example at cbra. Let's try to set up our own data office and such way that other people can take away with it, right? Can take away from it. >>So we set up a data strategy, we started building data products, took care of the data infrastructure, that sort of good stuff. And in doing all of that, Lisa, exactly as you said, we said, okay, we need to also use our own product and our own practices, right? And from that use, learn how we can make the product better, learn how we can make the practice better, and share that learning with all of the markets of course. And on, on the Monday mornings, we sometimes refer to that as eating our own dog foods or Friday evenings we refer to that as drinking our own champagne. I like it. So we, we had a, we had the driver to do this, you know, there's a clear business reason. So we involved, we included that in the data strategy and that's a little bit of our origin. >>Now how, how do we organize this? We have three pillars, and by no means is this a template that everyone should follow? This is just the organization that works at our company, but it can serve as an inspiration. So we have a pillar, which is data science. The data product builders if you will, or the people who help the business build data products. We have the data engineers who help keep the lights on for that data platform to make sure the products, the data products can run, the data can flow and you know, the quality can be checked. And then we have a data intelligence or data governance builder where we have those data governance, data intelligence stakeholders who help the business as a sort of data partner to the business stakeholders. So that's how we've organized it. And then we started following the calibra approach, which is, well, what are the challenges that our business stakeholders have in hr, finance, sales, marketing all over? >>And how can data help overcome those challenges? And from those use cases, we then just started to build a roadmap and started execution on use case after use case. And a few important ones there are very simple, we see them with our, all our customers as well. People love talking about the catalog, right? The catalog for the data scientists to know what's in their data lake, for example, and for the people in and legal and privacy. So they have their process registry and they can see how the data flows. So that's a popular starting place. And that turns into a marketplace so that if new analysts and data citizens join cbra, they immediately have a place to go to, to look and see, okay, what data is out there for me as an analyst or a data scientist or whatever to do my job, right? >>So they can immediately get access to the data. And another one that we did is around trusted business reporting. We're seeing that since 2008. You know, self-service BI allowed everyone to make beautiful dashboards, you know, by pie charts. I always, my pet peeve is the pie charts because I love buy and you shouldn't always be using pie charts. But essentially there's become proliferation of those reports. And now executives don't really know, okay, should I trust this report or that report the reporting on the same thing. But the numbers seem different, right? So that's why we have trusted business reporting. So we know if a report, a dashboard, a data product essentially is built, we know that all the right steps are being followed and that whoever is consuming that can be quite confident in the result either right, in that silver or browser Absolutely key. Exactly. Yes. A absolutely. >>Talk a little bit about some of the, the key performance indicators that you're using to measure the success of the data office. What are some of those KPIs? >>KPIs and measuring is a big topic in the, in the data chief data officer profession, I would say, and again, it always varies with respect to your organization, but there's a few that we use that might be of interest to you. So remember we have those three pillars, right? And we have metrics across those pillars. So for example, a pillar on the data engineering side is gonna be more related to that uptime, right? Audit is a data platform up and running. Are the data products up and running? Is the quality in them good enough? Is it going up? Is it going down? What's the usage? But also, and especially if you're in the cloud and if consumption is a big thing, you have metrics around cost, for example, right? So that's one set of examples. Another one is around the data science and the products. >>Are people using them? Are they getting value from it? Can we calculate that value in a monetary perspective, right? So that we can to the rest of the business continue to say we're tracking on those numbers. And those numbers indicate that value is generated and how much value estimated in that region. And then you have some data intelligence, data governance metrics, which is, for example, you have a number of domains in a data mesh. People talk about being the owner of a data domain, for example, like product or customer. So how many of those domains do you have covered? How many of them are already part of the program? How many of them have owners assigned? How well are these owners organized, executing on their responsibilities? How many tickets are open closed? How many data products are built according to process? And so on and so forth. So these are an a set of examples of, of KPIs. There's a, there's a lot more, but hopefully those can already inspire the audience. >>Absolutely. So we've, we've talked about the rise of cheap data offices, it's only accelerating. You mentioned this is like a 10 year journey. So if you were to look into a crystal ball, what do you see in terms of the maturation of data offices over the next decade? >>So we, we've seen indeed the, the role sort of grow up, I think in, in 2010 there may have been like 10 chief data officers or something. Gartner has exact numbers on them, but then they grew, you know, 400, they were like mostly in financial services, but they expanded then to all of industries and then to all of the season. The number is estimated to be about 20,000 right now. Wow. And they evolved in a sort of stack of competencies, defensive data strategy, because the first chief data officers were more regulatory driven, offensive data strategy support for the digital program. And now all about data products, right? So as a data leader, you'd now need all of those competences and need to include them in, in your strategy. >>How is that going to evolve for the next couple of years? I wish I had one of those crystal balls, right? But essentially I think for the next couple of years there's gonna be a lot of people, you know, still moving along with those four levels of the stack. A lot of people I see are still in version one and version two of the chief data officer. So you'll see over the years that's going to evolve more digital and more data products. So for next three, five years, my, my prediction is it's all going to be about data products because it's an immediate link between the data and, and the dollar essentially, right? So that's gonna be important and quite likely a new, some new things will be added on, which nobody can predict yet. But we'll see those pop up in a few years. >>I think there's gonna be a continued challenge for the chief data officer role to become a real executive role as opposed to, you know, somebody who claims that they're executive, but then they're not. Right? So the real reporting level into the board, into the CEO for example, will continue to be a challenging point. But the ones who do get that done will be the ones that are successful. Yeah. And the ones who get that done will be the ones that do it on the basis of data monetization, right? Connecting value to the data and making that very clear to all the data citizens in the organization, right? Really and in that sense, value chain, they'll need to have both, you know, technical audiences and non-technical audiences aligned of course. And they'll need to focus on adoption. Again, it's not enough to just have your data office be involved in this. It's really important that you're waking up data citizens across the organization and you make everyone in the organization think about data as an essence. >>Absolutely. Because there's so much value that can be extracted if organizations really strategically build that data office and democratize access across all those data citizens. Stan, this is an exciting arena. We're definitely gonna keep our eyes on this. Sounds like a lot of evolution and maturation coming from the data office perspective. From the data citizen perspective. And as the data show that you mentioned in that IDC study, you mentioned Gartner as well, organizations have so much more likelihood of being successful in being competitive. So we're gonna watch this space. Stan, thank you so much for joining me on the queue at Data Citizens 22. We appreciate it. >>Thanks for having me over >>From Data Citizens 22, I'm Lisa Martin, you're watching The Cube, the leader in live tech coverage.

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Stan, it's great to have you back on the cube. Talk to us about what you mean by data citizenship and the And we believe that today's organizations, you have a lot of people, the equation, you have the benefits. So you can say, Okay, I'm doing this, you know, data culture for everyone, wakening them But the IDC study that you just mentioned demonstrates they're So as to how you get this zone or how you establish this of the equation of getting that culture right, is it's not enough to just have that leadership out there, So you are the co-founder of colibra. So over the years at cbra, we've been doing this now since 2008, so a good 15 years. So we said, you know, Colibra isn't the size of our customers yet, but we're we had the driver to do this, you know, there's a clear business reason. make sure the products, the data products can run, the data can flow and you know, the data scientists to know what's in their data lake, for example, and for the people in So they can immediately get access to the data. Talk a little bit about some of the, the key performance indicators that you're using to measure the success of the So for example, a pillar on the data engineering side is gonna be more related So how many of those domains do you have covered? So if you were to Gartner has exact numbers on them, but then they grew, you know, How is that going to evolve for the next couple of years? Really and in that sense, value chain, they'll need to have both, you know, And as the data show that you mentioned in that IDC study, you mentioned Gartner as well, the leader in live tech coverage.

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Accelerating Automated Analytics in the Cloud with Alteryx


 

>>Alteryx is a company with a long history that goes all the way back to the late 1990s. Now the one consistent theme over 20 plus years has been that Ultrix has always been a data company early in the big data and Hadoop cycle. It saw the need to combine and prep different data types so that organizations could analyze data and take action Altrix and similar companies played a critical role in helping companies become data-driven. The problem was the decade of big data, brought a lot of complexities and required immense skills just to get the technology to work as advertised this in turn limited, the pace of adoption and the number of companies that could really lean in and take advantage of the cloud began to change all that and set the foundation for today's theme to Zuora of digital transformation. We hear that phrase a ton digital transformation. >>People used to think it was a buzzword, but of course we learned from the pandemic that if you're not a digital business, you're out of business and a key tenant of digital transformation is democratizing data, meaning enabling, not just hypo hyper specialized experts, but anyone business users to put data to work. Now back to Ultrix, the company has embarked on a major transformation of its own. Over the past couple of years, brought in new management, they've changed the way in which it engaged with customers with the new subscription model and it's topgraded its talent pool. 2021 was even more significant because of two acquisitions that Altrix made hyper Ana and trifecta. Why are these acquisitions important? Well, traditionally Altryx sold to business analysts that were part of the data pipeline. These were fairly technical people who had certain skills and were trained in things like writing Python code with hyper Ana Altryx has added a new persona, the business user, anyone in the business who wanted to gain insights from data and, or let's say use AI without having to be a deep technical expert. >>And then Trifacta a company started in the early days of big data by cube alum, Joe Hellerstein and his colleagues at Berkeley. They knocked down the data engineering persona, and this gives Altryx a complimentary extension into it where things like governance and security are paramount. So as we enter 2022, the post isolation economy is here and we do so with a digital foundation built on the confluence of cloud native technologies, data democratization and machine intelligence or AI, if you prefer. And Altryx is entering that new era with an expanded portfolio, new go-to market vectors, a recurring revenue business model, and a brand new outlook on how to solve customer problems and scale a company. My name is Dave Vellante with the cube and I'll be your host today. And the next hour, we're going to explore the opportunities in this new data market. And we have three segments where we dig into these trends and themes. First we'll talk to Jay Henderson, vice president of product management at Ultrix about cloud acceleration and simplifying complex data operations. Then we'll bring in Suresh Vetol who's the chief product officer at Altrix and Adam Wilson, the CEO of Trifacta, which of course is now part of Altrix. And finally, we'll hear about how Altryx is partnering with snowflake and the ecosystem and how they're integrating with data platforms like snowflake and what this means for customers. And we may have a few surprises sprinkled in as well into the conversation let's get started. >>We're kicking off the program with our first segment. Jay Henderson is the vice president of product management Altryx and we're going to talk about the trends and data, where we came from, how we got here, where we're going. We get some launch news. Well, Jay, welcome to the cube. >>Great to be here, really excited to share some of the things we're working on. >>Yeah. Thank you. So look, you have a deep product background, product management, product marketing, you've done strategy work. You've been around software and data, your entire career, and we're seeing the collision of software data cloud machine intelligence. Let's start with the customer and maybe we can work back from there. So if you're an analytics or data executive in an organization, w J what's your north star, where are you trying to take your company from a data and analytics point of view? >>Yeah, I mean, you know, look, I think all organizations are really struggling to get insights out of their data. I think one of the things that we see is you've got digital exhaust, creating large volumes of data storage is really cheap, so it doesn't cost them much to keep it. And that results in a situation where the organization's, you know, drowning in data, but somehow still starving for insights. And so I think, uh, you know, when I talk to customers, they're really excited to figure out how they can put analytics in the hands of every single person in their organization, and really start to democratize the analytics, um, and, you know, let the, the business users and the whole organization get value out of all that data they have. >>And we're going to dig into that throughout this program data, I like to say is plentiful insights, not always so much. Tell us about your launch today, Jay, and thinking about the trends that you just highlighted, the direction that your customers want to go and the problems that you're solving, what role does the cloud play in? What is what you're launching? How does that fit in? >>Yeah, we're, we're really excited today. We're launching the Altryx analytics cloud. That's really a portfolio of cloud-based solutions that have all been built from the ground up to be cloud native, um, and to take advantage of things like based access. So that it's really easy to give anyone access, including folks on a Mac. Um, it, you know, it also lets you take advantage of elastic compute so that you can do, you know, in database processing and cloud native, um, solutions that are gonna scale to solve the most complex problems. So we've got a portfolio of solutions, things like designer cloud, which is our flagship designer product in a browser and on the cloud, but we've got ultra to machine learning, which helps up-skill regular old analysts with advanced machine learning capabilities. We've got auto insights, which brings a business users into the fold and automatically unearths insights using AI and machine learning. And we've got our latest edition, which is Trifacta that helps data engineers do data pipelining and really, um, you know, create a lot of the underlying data sets that are used in some of this, uh, downstream analytics. >>Let's dig into some of those roles if we could a little bit, I mean, you've traditionally Altryx has served the business analysts and that's what designer cloud is fit for, I believe. And you've explained, you know, kind of the scope, sorry, you've expanded that scope into the, to the business user with hyper Anna. And we're in a moment we're going to talk to Adam Wilson and Suresh, uh, about Trifacta and that recent acquisition takes you, as you said, into the data engineering space in it. But in thinking about the business analyst role, what's unique about designer cloud cloud, and how does it help these individuals? >>Yeah, I mean, you know, really, I go back to some of the feedback we've had from our customers, which is, um, you know, they oftentimes have dozens or hundreds of seats of our designer desktop product, you know, really, as they look to take the next step, they're trying to figure out how do I give access to that? Those types of analytics to thousands of people within the organization and designer cloud is, is really great for that. You've got the browser-based interface. So if folks are on a Mac, they can really easily just pop, open the browser and get access to all of those, uh, prep and blend capabilities to a lot of the analysis we're doing. Um, it's a great way to scale up access to the analytics and then start to put it in the hands of really anyone in the organization, not just those highly skilled power users. >>Okay, great. So now then you add in the hyper Anna acquisition. So now you're targeting the business user Trifacta comes into the mix that deeper it angle that we talked about, how does this all fit together? How should we be thinking about the new Altryx portfolio? >>Yeah, I mean, I think it's pretty exciting. Um, you know, when you think about democratizing analytics and providing access to all these different groups of people, um, you've not been able to do it through one platform before. Um, you know, it's not going to be one interface that meets the, of all these different groups within the organization. You really do need purpose built specialized capabilities for each group. And finally, today with the announcement of the alternates analytics cloud, we brought together all of those different capabilities, all of those different interfaces into a single in the end application. So really finally delivering on the promise of providing analytics to all, >>How much of this you've been able to share with your customers and maybe your partners. I mean, I know OD is fairly new, but if you've been able to get any feedback from them, what are they saying about it? >>Uh, I mean, it's, it's pretty amazing. Um, we ran a early access, limited availability program that led us put a lot of this technology in the hands of over 600 customers, um, over the last few months. So we have gotten a lot of feedback. I tell you, um, it's been overwhelmingly positive. I think organizations are really excited to unlock the insights that have been hidden in all this data. They've got, they're excited to be able to use analytics in every decision that they're making so that the decisions they have or more informed and produce better business outcomes. Um, and, and this idea that they're going to move from, you know, dozens to hundreds or thousands of people who have access to these kinds of capabilities, I think has been a really exciting thing that is going to accelerate the transformation that these customers are on. >>Yeah, those are good. Good, good numbers for, for preview mode. Let's, let's talk a little bit about vision. So it's democratizing data is the ultimate goal, which frankly has been elusive for most organizations over time. How's your cloud going to address the challenges of putting data to work across the entire enterprise? >>Yeah, I mean, I tend to think about the future and some of the investments we're making in our products and our roadmap across four big themes, you know, in the, and these are really kind of enduring themes that you're going to see us making investments in over the next few years, the first is having cloud centricity. You know, the data gravity has been moving to the cloud. We need to be able to provide access, to be able to ingest and manipulate that data, to be able to write back to it, to provide cloud solution. So the first one is really around cloud centricity. The second is around big data fluency. Once you have all of the data, you need to be able to manipulate it in a performant manner. So having the elastic cloud infrastructure and in database processing is so important, the third is around making AI a strategic advantage. >>So, uh, you know, getting everyone involved and accessing AI and machine learning to unlock those insights, getting it out of the hands of the small group of data scientists, putting it in the hands of analysts and business users. Um, and then the fourth thing is really providing access across the entire organization. You know, it and data engineers, uh, as well as business owners and analysts. So, um, cloud centricity, big data fluency, um, AI is a strategic advantage and, uh, personas across the organization are really the four big themes you're going to see us, uh, working on over the next few months and, uh, coming coming year. >>That's good. Thank you for that. So, so on a related question, how do you see the data organizations evolving? I mean, traditionally you've had, you know, monolithic organizations, uh, very specialized or I might even say hyper specialized roles and, and your, your mission of course is the customer. You, you, you, you and your customers, they want to democratize the data. And so it seems logical that domain leaders are going to take more responsibility for data, life cycles, data ownerships, low code becomes more important. And perhaps this kind of challenges, the historically highly centralized and really specialized roles that I just talked about. How do you see that evolving and, and, and what role will Altryx play? >>Yeah. Um, you know, I think we'll see sort of a more federated systems start to emerge. Those centralized groups are going to continue to exist. Um, but they're going to start to empower, you know, in a much more de-centralized way, the people who are closer to the business problems and have better business understanding. I think that's going to let the centralized highly skilled teams work on, uh, problems that are of higher value to the organization. The kinds of problems where one or 2% lift in the model results in millions of dollars a day for the business. And then by pushing some of the analytics out to, uh, closer to the edge and closer to the business, you'll be able to apply those analytics in every single decision. So I think you're going to see, you know, both the decentralized and centralized models start to work in harmony and a little bit more about almost a federated sort of a way. And I think, you know, the exciting thing for us at Altryx is, you know, we want to facilitate that. We want to give analytic capabilities and solutions to both groups and types of people. We want to help them collaborate better, um, and drive business outcomes with the analytics they're using. >>Yeah. I mean, I think my take on another one, if you could comment is to me, the technology should be an operational detail and it has been the, the, the dog that wags the tail, or maybe the other way around, you mentioned digital exhaust before. I mean, essentially it's digital exhaust coming out of operationals systems that then somehow, eventually end up in the hand of the domain users. And I wonder if increasingly we're going to see those domain users, users, those, those line of business experts get more access. That's your goal. And then even go beyond analytics, start to build data products that could be monetized, and that maybe it's going to take a decade to play out, but that is sort of a new era of data. Do you see it that way? >>Absolutely. We're actually making big investments in our products and capabilities to be able to create analytic applications and to enable somebody who's an analyst or business user to create an application on top of the data and analytics layers that they have, um, really to help democratize the analytics, to help prepackage some of the analytics that can drive more insights. So I think that's definitely a trend we're going to see more. >>Yeah. And to your point, if you can federate the governance and automate that, then that can happen. I mean, that's a key part of it, obviously. So, all right, Jay, we have to leave it there up next. We take a deep dive into the Altryx recent acquisition of Trifacta with Adam Wilson who led Trifacta for more than seven years. It's the recipe. Tyler is the chief product officer at Altryx to explain the rationale behind the acquisition and how it's going to impact customers. Keep it right there. You're watching the cube. You're a leader in enterprise tech coverage. >>It's go time, get ready to accelerate your data analytics journey with a unified cloud native platform. That's accessible for everyone on the go from home to office and everywhere in between effortless analytics to help you go from ideas to outcomes and no time. It's your time to shine. It's Altryx analytics cloud time. >>Okay. We're here with. Who's the chief product officer at Altryx and Adam Wilson, the CEO of Trifacta. Now of course, part of Altryx just closed this quarter. Gentlemen. Welcome. >>Great to be here. >>Okay. So let me start with you. In my opening remarks, I talked about Altrix is traditional position serving business analysts and how the hyper Anna acquisition brought you deeper into the business user space. What does Trifacta bring to your portfolio? Why'd you buy the company? >>Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for the question. Um, you know, we see, uh, we see a massive opportunity of helping, um, brands, um, democratize the use of analytics across their business. Um, every knowledge worker, every individual in the company should have access to analytics. It's no longer optional, um, as they navigate their businesses with that in mind, you know, we know designer and are the products that Altrix has been selling the past decade or so do a really great job, um, addressing the business analysts, uh, with, um, hyper Rana now kind of renamed, um, Altrix auto. We even speak with the business owner and the line of business owner. Who's looking for insights that aren't real in traditional dashboards and so on. Um, but we see this opportunity of really helping the data engineering teams and it organizations, um, to also make better use of analytics. Um, and that's where the drive factor comes in for us. Um, drive factor has the best data engineering cloud in the planet. Um, they have an established track record of working across multiple cloud platforms and helping data engineers, um, do better data pipelining and work better with, uh, this massive kind of cloud transformation that's happening in every business. Um, and so fact made so much sense for us. >>Yeah. Thank you for that. I mean, you, look, you could have built it yourself would have taken, you know, who knows how long, you know, but, uh, so definitely a great time to market move, Adam. I wonder if we could dig into Trifacta some more, I mean, I remember interviewing Joe Hellerstein in the early days. You've talked about this as well, uh, on the cube coming at the problem of taking data from raw refined to an experience point of view. And Joe in the early days, talked about flipping the model and starting with data visualization, something Jeff, her was expert at. So maybe explain how we got here. We used to have this cumbersome process of ETL and you may be in some others changed that model with ELL and then T explain how Trifacta really changed the data engineering game. >>Yeah, that's exactly right. Uh, David, it's been a really interesting journey for us because I think the original hypothesis coming out of the campus research, uh, at Berkeley and Stanford that really birth Trifacta was, you know, why is it that the people who know the data best can't do the work? You know, why is this become the exclusive purview of the highly technical? And, you know, can we rethink this and make this a user experience, problem powered by machine learning that will take some of the more complicated things that people want to do with data and really help to automate those. So, so a broader set of, of users can, um, can really see for themselves and help themselves. And, and I think that, um, there was a lot of pent up frustration out there because people have been told for, you know, for a decade now to be more data-driven and then the whole time they're saying, well, then give me the data, you know, in the shape that I could use it with the right level of quality and I'm happy to be, but don't tell me to be more data-driven and then, and, and not empower me, um, to, to get in there and to actually start to work with the data in meaningful ways. >>And so, um, that was really, you know, what, you know, the origin story of the company and I think is, as we, um, saw over the course of the last 5, 6, 7 years that, um, you know, uh, real, uh, excitement to embrace this idea of, of trying to think about data engineering differently, trying to democratize the, the ETL process and to also leverage all these exciting new, uh, engines and platforms that are out there that allow for processing, you know, ever more diverse data sets, ever larger data sets and new and interesting ways. And that's where a lot of the push-down or the ELT approaches that, you know, I think it could really won the day. Um, and that, and that for us was a hallmark of the solution from the very beginning. >>Yeah, this is a huge point that you're making is, is first of all, there's a large business, it's probably about a hundred billion dollar Tam. Uh, and the, the point you're making, because we've looked, we've contextualized most of our operational systems, but the big data pipeline is hasn't gotten there. But, and maybe we could talk about that a little bit because democratizing data is Nirvana, but it's been historically very difficult. You've got a number of companies it's very fragmented and they're all trying to attack their little piece of the problem to achieve an outcome, but it's been hard. And so what's going to be different about Altryx as you bring these puzzle pieces together, how is this going to impact your customers who would like to take that one? >>Yeah, maybe, maybe I'll take a crack at it. And Adam will, um, add on, um, you know, there hasn't been a single platform for analytics, automation in the enterprise, right? People have relied on, uh, different products, um, to solve kind of, uh, smaller problems, um, across this analytics, automation, data transformation domain. Um, and, um, I think uniquely Alcon's has that opportunity. Uh, we've got 7,000 plus customers who rely on analytics for, um, data management, for analytics, for AI and ML, uh, for transformations, uh, for reporting and visualization for automated insights and so on. Um, and so by bringing drive factor, we have the opportunity to scale this even further and solve for more use cases, expand the scenarios where it's applied and so multiple personas. Um, and we just talked about the data engineers. They are really a growing stakeholder in this transformation of data and analytics. >>Yeah, good. Maybe we can stay on this for a minute cause you, you you're right. You bring it together. Now at least three personas the business analyst, the end user slash business user. And now the data engineer, which is really out of an it role in a lot of companies, and you've used this term, the data engineering cloud, what is that? How is it going to integrate in with, or support these other personas? And, and how's it going to integrate into the broader ecosystem of clouds and cloud data warehouses or any other data stores? >>Yeah, no, that's great. Uh, yeah, I think for us, we really looked at this and said, you know, we want to build an open and interactive cloud platform for data engineers, you know, to collaboratively profile pipeline, um, and prepare data for analysis. And that really meant collaborating with the analysts that were in the line of business. And so this is why a big reason why this combination is so magic because ultimately if we can get the data engineers that are creating the data products together with the analysts that are in the line of business that are driving a lot of the decision making and allow for that, what I would describe as collaborative curation of the data together, so that you're starting to see, um, uh, you know, increasing returns to scale as this, uh, as this rolls out. I just think that is an incredibly powerful combination and, and frankly, something that the market is not crack the code on yet. And so, um, I think when we, when I sat down with Suresh and with mark and the team at Ultrix, that was really part of the, the, the big idea, the big vision that was painted and got us really energized about the acquisition and about the potential of the combination. >>And you're really, you're obviously writing the cloud and the cloud native wave. Um, and, but specifically we're seeing, you know, I almost don't even want to call it a data warehouse anyway, because when you look at what's, for instance, Snowflake's doing, of course their marketing is around the data cloud, but I actually think there's real justification for that because it's not like the traditional data warehouse, right. It's, it's simplified get there fast, don't necessarily have to go through the central organization to share data. Uh, and, and, and, but it's really all about simplification, right? Isn't that really what the democratization comes down to. >>Yeah. It's simplification and collaboration. Right. I don't want to, I want to kind of just what Adam said resonates with me deeply. Um, analytics is one of those, um, massive disciplines inside an enterprise that's really had the weakest of tools. Um, and we just have interfaces to collaborate with, and I think truly this was all drinks and a superpower was helping the analysts get more out of their data, get more out of the analytics, like imagine a world where these people are collaborating and sharing insights in real time and sharing workflows and getting access to new data sources, um, understanding data models better, I think, um, uh, curating those insights. I boring Adam's phrase again. Um, I think that creates a real value inside the organization because frankly in scaling analytics and democratizing analytics and data, we're still in such early phases of this journey. >>So how should we think about designer cloud, which is from Altrix it's really been the on-prem and the server desktop offering. And of course Trifacta is with cloud cloud data warehouses. Right. Uh, how, how should we think about those two products? Yeah, >>I think, I think you should think about them. And, uh, um, as, as very complimentary right designer cloud really shares a lot of DNA and heritage with, uh, designer desktop, um, the low code tooling and that interface, uh, the really appeals to the business analysts, um, and gets a lot of the things that they do well, we've also built it with interoperability in mind, right. So if you started building your workflows in designer desktop, you want to share that with design and cloud, we want to make it super easy for you to do that. Um, and I think over time now we're only a week into, um, this Alliance with, um, with, um, Trifacta, um, I think we have to get deeper inside to think about what does the data engineer really need? What's the business analysts really need and how to design a cloud, and Trifacta really support both of those requirements, uh, while kind of continue to build on the trifecta on the amazing Trifacta cloud platform. >>You know, >>I think we're just going to say, I think that's one of the things that, um, you know, creates a lot of, uh, opportunity as we go forward, because ultimately, you know, Trifacta took a platform, uh, first mentality to everything that we built. So thinking about openness and extensibility and, um, and how over time people could build things on top of factor that are a variety of analytic tool chain, or analytic applications. And so, uh, when you think about, um, Ultrix now starting to, uh, to move some of its capabilities or to provide additional capabilities, uh, in the cloud, um, you know, Trifacta becomes a platform that can accelerate, you know, all of that work and create, uh, uh, a cohesive set of, of cloud-based services that, um, share a common platform. And that maintains independence because both companies, um, have been, uh, you know, fiercely independent, uh, and, and really giving people choice. >>Um, so making sure that whether you're, uh, you know, picking one cloud platform and other, whether you're running things on the desktop, uh, whether you're running in hybrid environments, that, um, no matter what your decision, um, you're always in a position to be able to get out your data. You're always in a position to be able to cleanse transform shape structure, that data, and ultimately to deliver, uh, the analytics that you need. And so I think in that sense, um, uh, you know, this, this again is another reason why the combination, you know, fits so well together, giving people, um, the choice. Um, and as they, as they think about their analytics strategy and their platform strategy going forward, >>Yeah. I make a chuckle, but one of the reasons I always liked Altrix is cause you kinda did the little end run on it. It can be a blocker sometimes, but that created problems, right? Because the organization said, wow, this big data stuff has taken off, but we need security. We need governance. And it's interesting because you've got, you know, ETL has been complex, whereas the visualization tools, they really, you know, really weren't great at governance and security. It took some time there. So that's not, not their heritage. You're bringing those worlds together. And I'm interested, you guys just had your sales kickoff, you know, what was their reaction like? Uh, maybe Suresh, you could start off and maybe Adam, you could bring us home. >>Um, thanks for asking about our sales kickoff. So we met for the first time and you've got a two years, right. For, as, as it is for many of us, um, in person, uh, um, which I think was a, was a real breakthrough as Qualtrics has been on its transformation journey. Uh, we added a Trifacta to, um, the, the potty such as the tour, um, and getting all of our sales teams and product organizations, um, to meet in person in one location. I thought that was very powerful for other the company. Uh, but then I tell you, um, um, the reception for Trifacta was beyond anything I could have imagined. Uh, we were working out him and I will, when he's so hot on, on the deal and the core hypotheses and so on. And then you step back and you're going to share the vision with the field organization, and it blows you away, the energy that it creates among our sellers out of partners. >>And I'm sure Madam will and his team were mocked, um, every single day, uh, with questions and opportunities to bring them in. But Adam, maybe you should share. Yeah, no, it was, uh, it was through the roof. I mean, uh, uh, the, uh, the amount of energy, the, uh, certainly how welcoming everybody was, uh, uh, you know, just, I think the story makes so much sense together. I think culturally, the company is, are very aligned. Um, and, uh, it was a real, uh, real capstone moment, uh, to be able to complete the acquisition and to, and to close and announced, you know, at the kickoff event. And, um, I think, you know, for us, when we really thought about it, you know, when we ended, the story that we told was just, you have this opportunity to really cater to what the end users care about, which is a lot about interactivity and self-service, and at the same time. >>And that's, and that's a lot of the goodness that, um, that Altryx is, has brought, you know, through, you know, you know, years and years of, of building a very vibrant community of, you know, thousands, hundreds of thousands of users. And on the other side, you know, Trifacta bringing in this data engineering focus, that's really about, uh, the governance things that you mentioned and the openness, um, that, that it cares deeply about. And all of a sudden, now you have a chance to put that together into a complete story where the data engineering cloud and analytics, automation, you know, coming together. And, um, and I just think, you know, the lights went on, um, you know, for people instantaneously and, you know, this is a story that, um, that I think the market is really hungry for. And certainly the reception we got from, uh, from the broader team at kickoff was, uh, was a great indication. >>Well, I think the story hangs together really well, you know, one of the better ones I've seen in, in this space, um, and, and you guys coming off a really, really strong quarter. So congratulations on that jets. We have to leave it there. I really appreciate your time today. Yeah. Take a look at this short video. And when we come back, we're going to dig into the ecosystem and the integration into cloud data warehouses and how leading organizations are creating modern data teams and accelerating their digital businesses. You're watching the cube you're leader in enterprise tech coverage. >>This is your data housed neatly insecurely in the snowflake data cloud. And all of it has potential the potential to solve complex business problems, deliver personalized financial offerings, protect supply chains from disruption, cut costs, forecast, grow and innovate. All you need to do is put your data in the hands of the right people and give it an opportunity. Luckily for you. That's the easy part because snowflake works with Alteryx and Alteryx turns data into breakthroughs with just a click. Your organization can automate analytics with drag and drop building blocks, easily access snowflake data with both sequel and no SQL options, share insights, powered by Alteryx data science and push processing to snowflake for lightning, fast performance, you get answers you can put to work in your teams, get repeatable processes they can share in that's exciting because not only is your data no longer sitting around in silos, it's also mobilized for the next opportunity. Turn your data into a breakthrough Alteryx and snowflake >>Okay. We're back here in the queue, focusing on the business promise of the cloud democratizing data, making it accessible and enabling everyone to get value from analytics, insights, and data. We're now moving into the eco systems segment the power of many versus the resources of one. And we're pleased to welcome. Barb Hills camp was the senior vice president partners and alliances at Ultrix and a special guest Terek do week head of technology alliances at snowflake folks. Welcome. Good to see you. >>Thank you. Thanks for having me. Good to see >>Dave. Great to see you guys. So cloud migration, it's one of the hottest topics. It's the top one of the top initiatives of senior technology leaders. We have survey data with our partner ETR it's number two behind security, and just ahead of analytics. So we're hovering around all the hot topics here. Barb, what are you seeing with respect to customer, you know, cloud migration momentum, and how does the Ultrix partner strategy fit? >>Yeah, sure. Partners are central company's strategy. They always have been. We recognize that our partners have deep customer relationships. And when you connect that with their domain expertise, they're really helping customers on their cloud and business transformation journey. We've been helping customers achieve their desired outcomes with our partner community for quite some time. And our partner base has been growing an average of 30% year over year, that partner community and strategy now addresses several kinds of partners, spanning solution providers to global SIS and technology partners, such as snowflake and together, we help our customers realize the business promise of their journey to the cloud. Snowflake provides a scalable storage system altereds provides the business user friendly front end. So for example, it departments depend on snowflake to consolidate data across systems into one data cloud with Altryx business users can easily unlock that data in snowflake solving real business outcomes. Our GSI and solution provider partners are instrumental in providing that end to end benefit of a modern analytic stack in the cloud providing platform, guidance, deployment, support, and other professional services. >>Great. Let's get a little bit more into the relationship between Altrix and S in snowflake, the partnership, maybe a little bit about the history, you know, what are the critical aspects that we should really focus on? Barb? Maybe you could start an Interra kindly way in as well. >>Yeah, so the relationship started in 2020 and all shirts made a big bag deep with snowflake co-innovating and optimizing cloud use cases together. We are supporting customers who are looking for that modern analytic stack to replace an old one or to implement their first analytic strategy. And our joint customers want to self-serve with data-driven analytics, leveraging all the benefits of the cloud, scalability, accessibility, governance, and optimizing their costs. Um, Altrix proudly achieved. Snowflake's highest elite tier in their partner program last year. And to do that, we completed a rigorous third party testing process, which also helped us make some recommended improvements to our joint stack. We wanted customers to have confidence. They would benefit from high quality and performance in their investment with us then to help customers get the most value out of the destroyed solution. We developed two great assets. One is the officer starter kit for snowflake, and we coauthored a joint best practices guide. >>The starter kit contains documentation, business workflows, and videos, helping customers to get going more easily with an altered since snowflake solution. And the best practices guide is more of a technical document, bringing together experiences and guidance on how Altryx and snowflake can be deployed together. Internally. We also built a full enablement catalog resources, right? We wanted to provide our account executives more about the value of the snowflake relationship. How do we engage and some best practices. And now we have hundreds of joint customers such as Juniper and Sainsbury who are actively using our joint solution, solving big business problems much faster. >>Cool. Kara, can you give us your perspective on the partnership? >>Yeah, definitely. Dave, so as Barb mentioned, we've got this standing very successful partnership going back years with hundreds of happy joint customers. And when I look at the beginning, Altrix has helped pioneer the concept of self-service analytics, especially with use cases that we worked on with for, for data prep for BI users like Tableau and as Altryx has evolved to now becoming from data prep to now becoming a full end to end data science platform. It's really opened up a lot more opportunities for our partnership. Altryx has invested heavily over the last two years in areas of deep integration for customers to fully be able to expand their investment, both technologies. And those investments include things like in database pushed down, right? So customers can, can leverage that elastic platform, that being the snowflake data cloud, uh, with Alteryx orchestrating the end to end machine learning workflows Alteryx also invested heavily in snow park, a feature we released last year around this concept of data programmability. So all users were regardless of their business analysts, regardless of their data, scientists can use their tools of choice in order to consume and get at data. And now with Altryx cloud, we think it's going to open up even more opportunities. It's going to be a big year for the partnership. >>Yeah. So, you know, Terike, we we've covered snowflake pretty extensively and you initially solve what I used to call the, I still call the snake swallowing the basketball problem and cloud data warehouse changed all that because you had virtually infinite resources, but so that's obviously one of the problems that you guys solved early on, but what are some of the common challenges or patterns or trends that you see with snowflake customers and where does Altryx come in? >>Sure. Dave there's there's handful, um, that I can come up with today, the big challenges or trends for us, and Altrix really helps us across all of them. Um, there are three particular ones I'm going to talk about the first one being self-service analytics. If we think about it, every organization is trying to democratize data. Every organization wants to empower all their users, business users, um, you know, the, the technology users, but the business users, right? I think every organization has realized that if everyone has access to data and everyone can do something with data, it's going to make them competitively, give them a competitive advantage with Altrix is something we share that vision of putting that power in the hands of everyday users, regardless of the skillsets. So, um, with self-service analytics, with Ultrix designer they've they started out with self-service analytics as the forefront, and we're just scratching the surface. >>I think there was an analyst, um, report that shows that less than 20% of organizations are truly getting self-service analytics to their end users. Now, with Altryx going to Ultrix cloud, we think that's going to be a huge opportunity for us. Um, and then that opens up the second challenge, which is machine learning and AI, every organization is trying to get predictive analytics into every application that they have in order to be competitive in order to be competitive. Um, and with Altryx creating this platform so they can cater to both the everyday business user, the quote unquote, citizen data scientists, and making a code friendly for data scientists to be able to get at their notebooks and all the different tools that they want to use. Um, they fully integrated in our snow park platform, which I talked about before, so that now we get an end to end solution caring to all, all lines of business. >>And then finally this concept of data marketplaces, right? We, we created snowflake from the ground up to be able to solve the data sharing problem, the big data problem, the data sharing problem. And Altryx um, if we look at mobilizing your data, getting access to third-party datasets, to enrich with your own data sets, to enrich with, um, with your suppliers and with your partners, data sets, that's what all customers are trying to do in order to get a more comprehensive 360 view, um, within their, their data applications. And so with Altryx alterations, we're working on third-party data sets and marketplaces for quite some time. Now we're working on how do we integrate what Altrix is providing with the snowflake data marketplace so that we can enrich these workflows, these great, great workflows that Altrix writing provides. Now we can add third party data into that workflow. So that opens up a ton of opportunities, Dave. So those are three I see, uh, easily that we're going to be able to solve a lot of customer challenges with. >>So thank you for that. Terrick so let's stay on cloud a little bit. I mean, Altrix is undergoing a major transformation, big focus on the cloud. How does this cloud launch impact the partnership Terike from snowflakes perspective and then Barb, maybe, please add some color. >>Yeah, sure. Dave snowflake started as a cloud data platform. We saw our founders really saw the challenges that customers are having with becoming data-driven. And the biggest challenge was the complexity of having imagine infrastructure to even be able to do it, to get applications off the ground. And so we created something to be cloud-native. We created to be a SAS managed service. So now that that Altrix is moving to the same model, right? A cloud platform, a SAS managed service, we're just, we're just removing more of the friction. So we're going to be able to start to package these end to end solutions that are SAS based that are fully managed. So customers can, can go faster and they don't have to worry about all of the underlying complexities of, of, of stitching things together. Right? So, um, so that's, what's exciting from my viewpoint >>And I'll follow up. So as you said, we're investing heavily in the cloud a year ago, we had two pre desktop products, and today we have four cloud products with cloud. We can provide our users with more flexibility. We want to make it easier for the users to leverage their snowflake data in the Alteryx platform, whether they're using our beloved on-premise solution or the new cloud products were committed to that continued investment in the cloud, enabling our joint partner solutions to meet customer requirements, wherever they store their data. And we're working with snowflake, we're doing just that. So as customers look for a modern analytic stack, they expect that data to be easily accessible, right within a fast, secure and scalable platform. And the launch of our cloud strategy is a huge leap forward in making Altrix more widely accessible to all users in all types of roles, our GSI and our solution provider partners have asked for these cloud capabilities at scale, and they're excited to better support our customers, cloud and analytic >>Are. How about you go to market strategy? How would you describe your joint go to market strategy with snowflake? >>Sure. It's simple. We've got to work backwards from our customer's challenges, right? Driving transformation to solve problems, gain efficiencies, or help them save money. So whether it's with snowflake or other GSI, other partner types, we've outlined a joint journey together from recruit solution development, activation enablement, and then strengthening our go to market strategies to optimize our results together. We launched an updated partner program and within that framework, we've created new benefits for our partners around opportunity registration, new role based enablement and training, basically extending everything we do internally for our own go-to-market teams to our partners. We're offering partner, marketing resources and funding to reach new customers together. And as a matter of fact, we recently launched a fantastic video with snowflake. I love this video that very simply describes the path to insights starting with your snowflake data. Right? We do joint customer webinars. We're working on joint hands-on labs and have a wonderful landing page with a lot of assets for our customers. Once we have an interested customer, we engage our respective account managers, collaborating through discovery questions, proof of concepts really showcasing the desired outcome. And when you combine that with our partners technology or domain expertise, it's quite powerful, >>Dark. How do you see it? You'll go to market strategy. >>Yeah. Dave we've. Um, so we initially started selling, we initially sold snowflake as technology, right? Uh, looking at positioning the diff the architectural differentiators and the scale and concurrency. And we noticed as we got up into the larger enterprise customers, we're starting to see how do they solve their business problems using the technology, as well as them coming to us and saying, look, we want to also know how do you, how do you continue to map back to the specific prescriptive business problems we're having? And so we shifted to an industry focus last year, and this is an area where Altrix has been mature for probably since their inception selling to the line of business, right? Having prescriptive use cases that are particular to an industry like financial services, like retail, like healthcare and life sciences. And so, um, Barb talked about these, these starter kits where it's prescriptive, you've got a demo and, um, a way that customers can get off the ground and running, right? >>Cause we want to be able to shrink that time to market, the time to value that customers can watch these applications. And we want to be able to, to tell them specifically how we can map back to their business initiatives. So I see a huge opportunity to align on these industry solutions. As BARR mentioned, we're already doing that where we've released a few around financial services working in healthcare and retail as well. So that is going to be a way for us to allow customers to go even faster and start to map two lines of business with Alteryx. >>Great. Thanks Derek. Bob, what can we expect if we're observing this relationship? What should we look for in the coming year? >>A lot specifically with snowflake, we'll continue to invest in the partnership. Uh, we're co innovators in this journey, including snow park extensibility efforts, which Derek will tell you more about shortly. We're also launching these great news strategic solution blueprints, and extending that at no charge to our partners with snowflake, we're already collaborating with their retail and CPG team for industry blueprints. We're working with their data marketplace team to highlight solutions, working with that data in their marketplace. More broadly, as I mentioned, we're relaunching the ultra partner program designed to really better support the unique partner types in our global ecosystem, introducing new benefits so that with every partner, achievement or investment with ultra score, providing our partners with earlier access to benefits, um, I could talk about our program for 30 minutes. I know we don't have time. The key message here Alteryx is investing in our partner community across the business, recognizing the incredible value that they bring to our customers every day. >>Tarik will give you the last word. What should we be looking for from, >>Yeah, thanks. Thanks, Dave. As BARR mentioned, Altrix has been the forefront of innovating with us. They've been integrating into, uh, making sure again, that customers get the full investment out of snowflake things like in database push down that I talked about before that extensibility is really what we're excited about. Um, the ability for Ultrix to plug into this extensibility framework that we call snow park and to be able to extend out, um, ways that the end users can consume snowflake through, through sequel, which has traditionally been the way that you consume snowflake as well as Java and Scala, not Python. So we're excited about those, those capabilities. And then we're also excited about the ability to plug into the data marketplace to provide third party data sets, right there probably day sets in, in financial services, third party, data sets and retail. So now customers can build their data applications from end to end using ultrasound snowflake when the comprehensive 360 view of their customers, of their partners, of even their employees. Right? I think it's exciting to see what we're going to be able to do together with these upcoming innovations. Great >>Barb Tara, thanks so much for coming on the program, got to leave it right there in a moment, I'll be back with some closing thoughts in a summary, don't go away. >>1200 hours of wind tunnel testing, 30 million race simulations, 2.4 second pit stops make that 2.3. The sector times out the wazoo, whites are much of this velocity's pressures, temperatures, 80,000 components generating 11.8 billion data points and one analytics platform to make sense of it all. When McLaren needs to turn complex data into insights, they turn to Altryx Qualtrics analytics, automation, >>Okay, let's summarize and wrap up the session. We can pretty much agree the data is plentiful, but organizations continue to struggle to get maximum value out of their data investments. The ROI has been elusive. There are many reasons for that complexity data, trust silos, lack of talent and the like, but the opportunity to transform data operations and drive tangible value is immense collaboration across various roles. And disciplines is part of the answer as is democratizing data. This means putting data in the hands of those domain experts that are closest to the customer and really understand where the opportunity exists and how to best address them. We heard from Jay Henderson that we have all this data exhaust and cheap storage. It allows us to keep it for a long time. It's true, but as he pointed out that doesn't solve the fundamental problem. Data is spewing out from our operational systems, but much of it lacks business context for the data teams chartered with analyzing that data. >>So we heard about the trend toward low code development and federating data access. The reason this is important is because the business lines have the context and the more responsibility they take for data, the more quickly and effectively organizations are going to be able to put data to work. We also talked about the harmonization between centralized teams and enabling decentralized data flows. I mean, after all data by its very nature is distributed. And importantly, as we heard from Adam Wilson and Suresh Vittol to support this model, you have to have strong governance and service the needs of it and engineering teams. And that's where the trifecta acquisition fits into the equation. Finally, we heard about a key partnership between Altrix and snowflake and how the migration to cloud data warehouses is evolving into a global data cloud. This enables data sharing across teams and ecosystems and vertical markets at massive scale all while maintaining the governance required to protect the organizations and individuals alike. >>This is a new and emerging business model that is very exciting and points the way to the next generation of data innovation in the coming decade. We're decentralized domain teams get more facile access to data. Self-service take more responsibility for quality value and data innovation. While at the same time, the governance security and privacy edicts of an organization are centralized in programmatically enforced throughout an enterprise and an external ecosystem. This is Dave Volante. All these videos are available on demand@theqm.net altrix.com. Thanks for watching accelerating automated analytics in the cloud made possible by Altryx. And thanks for watching the queue, your leader in enterprise tech coverage. We'll see you next time.

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It saw the need to combine and prep different data types so that organizations anyone in the business who wanted to gain insights from data and, or let's say use AI without the post isolation economy is here and we do so with a digital We're kicking off the program with our first segment. So look, you have a deep product background, product management, product marketing, And that results in a situation where the organization's, you know, the direction that your customers want to go and the problems that you're solving, what role does the cloud and really, um, you know, create a lot of the underlying data sets that are used in some of this, into the, to the business user with hyper Anna. of our designer desktop product, you know, really, as they look to take the next step, comes into the mix that deeper it angle that we talked about, how does this all fit together? analytics and providing access to all these different groups of people, um, How much of this you've been able to share with your customers and maybe your partners. Um, and, and this idea that they're going to move from, you know, So it's democratizing data is the ultimate goal, which frankly has been elusive for most You know, the data gravity has been moving to the cloud. So, uh, you know, getting everyone involved and accessing AI and machine learning to unlock seems logical that domain leaders are going to take more responsibility for data, And I think, you know, the exciting thing for us at Altryx is, you know, we want to facilitate that. the tail, or maybe the other way around, you mentioned digital exhaust before. the data and analytics layers that they have, um, really to help democratize the We take a deep dive into the Altryx recent acquisition of Trifacta with Adam Wilson It's go time, get ready to accelerate your data analytics journey the CEO of Trifacta. serving business analysts and how the hyper Anna acquisition brought you deeper into the with that in mind, you know, we know designer and are the products And Joe in the early days, talked about flipping the model that really birth Trifacta was, you know, why is it that the people who know the data best can't And so, um, that was really, you know, what, you know, the origin story of the company but the big data pipeline is hasn't gotten there. um, you know, there hasn't been a single platform for And now the data engineer, which is really And so, um, I think when we, when I sat down with Suresh and with mark and the team and, but specifically we're seeing, you know, I almost don't even want to call it a data warehouse anyway, Um, and we just have interfaces to collaborate And of course Trifacta is with cloud cloud data warehouses. What's the business analysts really need and how to design a cloud, and Trifacta really support both in the cloud, um, you know, Trifacta becomes a platform that can You're always in a position to be able to cleanse transform shape structure, that data, and ultimately to deliver, And I'm interested, you guys just had your sales kickoff, you know, what was their reaction like? And then you step back and you're going to share the vision with the field organization, and to close and announced, you know, at the kickoff event. And certainly the reception we got from, Well, I think the story hangs together really well, you know, one of the better ones I've seen in, in this space, And all of it has potential the potential to solve complex business problems, We're now moving into the eco systems segment the power of many Good to see So cloud migration, it's one of the hottest topics. on snowflake to consolidate data across systems into one data cloud with Altryx business the partnership, maybe a little bit about the history, you know, what are the critical aspects that we should really focus Yeah, so the relationship started in 2020 and all shirts made a big bag deep with snowflake And the best practices guide is more of a technical document, bringing together experiences and guidance So customers can, can leverage that elastic platform, that being the snowflake data cloud, one of the problems that you guys solved early on, but what are some of the common challenges or patterns or trends everyone has access to data and everyone can do something with data, it's going to make them competitively, application that they have in order to be competitive in order to be competitive. to enrich with your own data sets, to enrich with, um, with your suppliers and with your partners, So thank you for that. So now that that Altrix is moving to the same model, And the launch of our cloud strategy How would you describe your joint go to market strategy the path to insights starting with your snowflake data. You'll go to market strategy. And so we shifted to an industry focus So that is going to be a way for us to allow What should we look for in the coming year? blueprints, and extending that at no charge to our partners with snowflake, we're already collaborating with Tarik will give you the last word. Um, the ability for Ultrix to plug into this extensibility framework that we call Barb Tara, thanks so much for coming on the program, got to leave it right there in a moment, I'll be back with 11.8 billion data points and one analytics platform to make sense of it all. This means putting data in the hands of those domain experts that are closest to the customer are going to be able to put data to work. While at the same time, the governance security and privacy edicts

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