Your Data is already there – start using it! – with Stephen B., Teradata

MY DATA IS BETTER THAN YOURS

In this episode of MY DATA IS BETTER THAN YOURS the host of the podcast, Jonas Rashedi, is talking to Stephen Brobst, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Teradata, the connected multi-cloud data platform for enterprise analytics company. Stephen holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an MBA from Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management. Stephen is a TDWI Fellow and has been on the faculty of The Data Warehousing Institute since 1996. During Barack Obama's first term he was also appointed to the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in the working group on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD). A few years ago, he was ranked by ExecRank as the #4 CTO in the United States (behind the CTOs from Amazon.com, Tesla Motors, and Intel) out of a pool of 10,000+ CTOs. His conclusion: Every government (and every business) needs a data strategy!

Jonas and Stephen talk about the evolution of Data in the last 10 years. There was a lot of progress: 10 years ago, companies were building data warehouses and working on premise, today most innovative companies work in the cloud and drive their innovations more effectively in the cloud! And there was also an evolution in the teams, which is why Stephen sees the need to decentralize, democratize and re-use data in all lines of business. None the less, for him it’s important that there is a central monitoring as some kind of “governance”. If there is no centralization in the decentralization, it’s anarchy!

Moreover, Jonas and Stephen talk about Data products and how to start with an MVP, how marketeers, data people and the IT can work together and how goals need to be adjusted so you can save time and effort. In lots of projects the marketeers and data people behave like crazy teenagers, having lots of ideas, wanting to start right away and the IT people are the responsible parents, looking if everything is secure.

To Teradata: https://www.teradata.de

To Stephen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-brobst-70127956/

To the website of Jonas: https://www.jonas-rashedi.de

To Jonas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonasrashedi/