Drill to Detail Ep.96 'Omni's Mission to Answer the First 100 Questions' with Special Guest Colin Zima

Mark Rittman is joined in this very special episode by Colin Zima, ex-Head of Analytics at Looker and now co-founder of Omni, a new analytics startup looking to become the fastest way to ask the first 100 questions.

• Introducing Omni: The fastest way to turn SQL into intelligence

• Omni Analytics Homepage

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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.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

Drill to Detail Ep. 5 'SnowflakeDB, and is Data Modeling Dead?' with Special Guest Kent Graziano

In this episode Mark Rittman is joined by Kent Graziano to answer the questions "Is data modeling now dead", and "is SnowflakeDB the future of analytic data engines in the cloud?"

• Better Data Modeling: An Introduction to Agile Data Engineering Using Data Vault 2.0
• Better Data Modeling: Tips for Enhancing Your Use of Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler
• Kent Graziano Blog
• Building a Scalable Data Warehouse with Data Vault 2.0
• Snowflake Computing
• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2016
• Gartner press release on their "modern BI platform"

Drill To Detail Ep.1. 'After The Gartner BI&A Magic Quadrant 2016', With Special Guest Stewart Bryson

• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2016
• Gartner press release on their "modern BI platform"
• "AgileAnalytics: Agile Real-Time BI with Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle GoldenGate"
• "Oracle BI Hybrid BI : Mode 1 + Mode 2, Cloud + On-Premise Business Analytics"
• "Introducing the Updated Oracle / Rittman Mead Information Management Reference Architecture Pt1. - Information Architecture and the "Data Factory"
• "Information Management and Big Data - A Reference Architecture"