Drill to Detail Ep.40 'Fivetran's Middleware for SaaS Data' With Special Guest Taylor Brown

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Taylor Brown from Fivetran to talk about middleware for SaaS data, their focus on integrations with SaaS vendors and how this differentiates their offering, his thoughts on packaged analytic applications announced at the recent Looker Join conference ... and where the name "Fivetran" came from.

• Fivetran website

• Fivetran Source and Target Integrations

• Looker 5 Release with new Analytic and Data Blocks

• "Comparison of Two Great ETL Tools: Fivetran vs. Stitch Data"

Drill to Detail Ep.38 'Oracle's Big Data Strategy Before OOW' with Special Guest Jean-Pierre Dijcks

Drill to Detail returns for a new season with special guest Jean-Pierre Dijcks, to talk about Oracle's Big Data Strategy now and in the past, thoughts on distributed query and storage in the cloud, and previewing themes and announcements to look forward to at the upcoming Oracle Open World 2017 event running in San Francisco next month

Drill to Detail Ep.36 'Marketing Analytics, AI and the Rise of the Omni-channel Consumer' With Special Guest Mark Madsen

Mark Rittman is joined by Industry Analyst Mark Madsen to talk about marketing analytics and the rise of the omni-channel consumer, the use of AI in analytics and personalization and what this all means for brands, for advertisers and for marketers.

• Third Nature, Inc.

• "A Pragmatic Approach to Analyzing Customers"

• "Salesforce Einstein Keynote: AI For Everyone"

• "What is SAP Leonardo? Everything you need to know about SAP’s Leonardo platform"

Drill to Detail Ep.35 'Stitch Data, Singer and ETL for Data Engineers' With Special Guest Jake Stein

In this episode Mark is joined by Jake Stein to talk about Stitch Data and their ETL tool for data engineers, the new open-source project Singer and his experiences building a software startup that both partners and competes with the big cloud platform vendors.

• Stitch Data

• Singer: Simple, Composable Open-Source ETL

• Setting the Data Strategy for Your Growing Organization

• The State of Data Engineering

• The State of Data Science

• Why our ETL Tool Doesn't Do Transformations

• Airflow: a workflow management platform

• Goodbye RJMetrics, Hello Fishtown Analytics

• Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL: A Guide to Building a High Functioning Data Science Department

Drill to Detail Ep.34 'Qlik, MSAS and the Strategy of Data Analytics' with Special Guest Donald Farmer

Mark Rittman is joined by Donald Farmer to talk about his work at Microsoft on SQL Server Analysis Services and Integration Services, why he moved to Qlik and the challenges of evolving a BI product strategy from focusing on desktops to focusing on the enterprise, and some advice for customers, software vendors and partners working with data and analytics tools.