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The Big Interview: Alation CEO Satyen Sangani on AI, data, disappointments, distributing power

Some data transformation failures are "inherent to what you're trying to do, which is discover insights; knowledge generation is not a deterministic process. But some of that is also because people don't know how to do it..." he tells The Stack.

Edward Targett July 06, 2023

Big Data

Snowflake

Interviews

From roughneck to data dynamo: John Lewis’ Head of Data Products on perspective, Big Query vs Snowflake, and data ambitions

“We have staggering amounts of data. And we have the same problem as everyone else. It's all siloed: we need it in one place…”

Edward Targett July 03, 2023

River Island CIO Adam Warne on digitally transforming bricks-and-mortar retail

The privately owned retailer's CIO talks us through building data funnels from shops, smart fitting rooms and more...

Edward Targett June 01, 2023

defence

Ministry of Defence

UK defence facing a “step-change” in how adversaries use digital and data: “Attitudes, culture” must change

"Our ability to collect data risks overmatching the ability of our analysts to analyse and exploit it at the speed we need"

Edward Targett June 01, 2023

Microsoft

Big Data

Microsoft Fabric, a new unified data platform, promises magic, but has gaps to fill...

Microsoft has released a unified data platform called Microsoft Fabric: the next step in a journey that started in 2022 with the release of its “Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform”, and an offering that Redmond says will let users get the “maximum value out of a single copy of data without...

Edward Targett May 23, 2023