Chief Data & Analytics Officer UK (CDAO UK) is the United Kingdom’s premier event for senior data and analytics executives. The three-day event, with more than 200 attendees and 50+ industry-leading speakers, was packed with case studies, thought leadership, and practical advice around data culture, data quality and governance, building a data workforce, data strategy, metadata management, AI/MLOps, self-service strategies, and more.
Today every company is a data company. And even with all the great new data systems and technologies, it’s people—data teams—who unlock the power of data to drive business value. But today’s data teams are getting bogged down. They’re struggling to keep pace with the increased volume, velocity, variety, complexity—and cost—of the modern data stack. That’s where Unravel DataOps observability comes in.
As organizations invest ever more heavily in modernizing their data stacks, data teams—the people who actually deliver the value of data to the business—are finding it increasingly difficult to manage the performance, cost, and quality of these complex systems. Data teams today find themselves in much the same boat as software teams were 10+ years ago. Software teams have dug themselves out the hole with DevOps best practices and tools—chief among them full-stack observability.
Modern data pipelines have become more business-critical than ever. Every company today is a data company, looking to leverage data analytics as a competitive advantage. But the complexity of the modern data stack imposes some significant challenges that are hindering organizations from realizing their goals and realizing the value of data.