Drill to Detail Ep.17 ‘Mode 1 Analytics and the Future of Cloud DWs’ With Special Guest Rick Greenwald

Mark Rittman is joined by Gartner analyst and ex-Oracle Database Cloud Service PM Rick Greenwald to talk about IT’s continuing (and essential!) role in corporate BI&DW deployments and the debate around Mode1 vs. Mode2 Analytics, how we got here, and the future of data warehousing database platforms as we move into the cloud.

Drill to Detail Ep.16 'Qubit, Visitor Cloud & Google BigQuery' With Special Guest Alex Olivier

Mark Rittman is joined by Alex Olivier from Qubit to talk about their platform journey from on-premise Hadoop to petabytes of data running in Google Cloud Platform, using Google Cloud Dataflow (aka Apache Beam), Google PubSub and Google BigQuery along with machine learning and analytics to deliver personalisation at-scale for digital retailers around the world.

• Qubit Visitor Cloud and Qubit's Infrastructure
• "A new age of Machine Learning is here" - Qubit Blog
• How Qubit's Data Supply Chain Shows the Power of HBASE
• Big Data Analytics at Google Scale
• BigQuery for Data Warehouse Practitioners
• Alex Olivier on Qubit's Infrastructure at Google NEXT London 2016

Drill to Detail Ep.15 ‘Modern BI and the Gartner BI Magic Quadrant 2016’ With Special Guest Cindi Howson

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Cindi Howson to talk about Modern BI and last year's Gartner BI & Analytics Magic Quadrant, the rise of self-service BI and IT's new role as enabler rather than owner, CIO priorities around BI & Analytics ... and, is the BICC dead?

• Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms
• Modern BI Platforms: The Role of the Data Warehouse and Semantic Models
• What CIOs Say About BI and Analytics
• Select the Right Business Intelligence and Analytics Tool for the Right User
• Create a Centralized and Decentralized Organizational Model for Business Intelligence
• My Big (Fat) Data Governance Rant
• Cindi Howson Gartner Network Blog