Just how big of a deal is shadow IT, really? Will downloading that piece of data integration software that’s not been approved by IT provide a path to faster, better data analytics, or bring the whole company crashing down in a storm of security and regulatory noncompliance challenges? In this week’s episode, join our hosts for a discussion about all things shadow IT: why it happens, what can make it dangerous, why some think it’s necessary, and above all, is there a solution that can make everybody happy?

Everyone is dealing with COVID-19 differently, but one thing most of us have in common is that we are using technology at home a lot more. In this episode, Wendy Pfeiffer, CIO of Nutanix, discusses how we are using technology to cope with the world we are living in and find a “new normal.”

On their data analytics platform Uniper is practicing self service. This video explains why and how they’re enabling the governed self service with Talend.

In this video recorded during Talend Connect '21, Christal Bemont, Talend's CEO, discusses with Shail Jain, the Global Lead for AI & Data at Accenture, on a prescriptive approach for creating and deploying data capital.

How data projects are put into production at AstraZeneca? Successful projects require discussion, business expertise, tech knowledge, and agility. AstraZeneca achieved this by building a collaborative culture between data leaders and business teams. “Data without trust is useless. Data Governance is critical to knowing that we can trust our data and ensuring that the data is well understood, well looked after, and only accessible to the right people.”

Change is something every business leader has to deal with. But in the past two years, doing business has just gotten weird and harder. In this video, Christal Bemont, Talend's CEO and David Malloy, Executive Director of the Estee Lauder Companies discuss how he used healthy data to fuel a dramatic business transformation of the major cosmetics retailer.

Mark Settle, the 7 time CIO and author of the recent book Truth from the Valley, a Practical Primer on IT Management for the Next Decade, joins Lauren to discuss data mining, (and regular mining), how to recognize your constraints, the importance of performance management, and much more.

Getting your executive team to make more data-driven decisions is important. But according to Scott Holden, CMO of ThoughtSpot, it isn’t enough. At ThoughtSpot, Scott is focused on helping entire organizations become data-driven, from top to bottom. On this episode, he discusses how he’s doing this, how he thinks about decision-making in general, and much more. Key Takeaways Quotes“Everything that I look at in my world comes through an analytical lens, and the power of that is that you can merge lots of different data sets together and get a more cohesive view.”

April 7, 2022, Talend, a global leader in data integration and management, announced today it has acquired Gamma Soft, a market innovator in change data capture (CDC). The addition of Gamma Soft’s highly complementary, enterprise-class change data capture technologies will help customers streamline their data modernization initiatives, including cloud migrations, and support advanced, real-time analytics use cases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

At AstraZeneca, supporting funcstions like Finance are intensely data-driven. Recently, the data and IT team completely overhauled their data architecture to better serve the needs of the Finance team, they decided to build a Finance data hub. In this video, key project stakeholders explain why and how they build the data hub for the finance team (using Talend and AWS), and they detail how it's integrated with other data hubs at astraZeneca.