Expert Panel Exploring Best Practices for Unified Data Management
Webinar Speaker: Fern Halper, TDWI VP Research, Senior Research Director for Advanced Analytics
Date: Monday, January 13, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
Unification of data management platforms, processes, and practices is an essential component of any modernization program. Unifying data management enables an organization to ingest, process, and deliver this asset efficiently, securely, and at significant scale. Unification onto a shared platform ensures that consistent integration, enhancement, cleansing, and governance processes are performed on all data.
TDWI research has found that unifying data management is a central element of any enterprise’s modernization strategy and a top priority. This expert panel will discuss best practices for unifying storage, processing, governance, and other aspects of managing enterprise data.
The key topics are:
- Why unified data platforms are important for overcoming data silos and enhancing collaboration
- Exploring the different approaches to data unification
- Best practices for unifying data governance, quality, and compliance across the enterprise
Guest Speakers
Colin Dover
Business Technology Platform, Center of Excellence
SAP
As part of the SAP Business Technology Platform Center of Excellence, Colin represents a breadth of solutions within the SAP portfolio; he is an evangelist for the SAP digital transformation strategy and vision as well as a passionate advocate for the value and best practices of corporate customer data strategy and analytics capability maturity. He has held a variety of technical and strategic consulting roles at a number of market-leading enterprise software vendors gaining extensive experience over a 24-year period, working with many of the world’s leading corporations.
John Reid
Senior Product Manager
Snowplow
John Reid is a Senior Product Manager at Snowplow, leading the Snowplow Digital Analytics initiative. He has a background in venture capital and data analytics, and has led several product teams at fast-growing tech companies in Southeast Asia and Europe. In his spare time he writes about data science and product management on Medium.
Date: January 13, 2025
Time: 9:00 am PT
Fern Halper, Ph.D.