Podcasts by Drill to Detail

Drill to Detail Ep.111 'Making Analytics Fun, Frictionless and Ducking Awesome' with Special Guest Jordan Tigani from 2023-09-07T21:50:54

Mark Rittman is joined in this final episode of the current series of Drill to Detail by returning guest Jordan Tigani, Co-Founder & CEO at Motherduck ...

Drill to Detail Ep.110 'Building a Sequel to SQL with Malloy' featuring Special Guests Lloyd Tabb and Carlin Eng from 2023-08-14T21:14:53

Mark Rittman is joined in this special episode by previous Looker founder and inventor of the LookML language Lloyd Tabb together with Carlin Eng, Product ...

Drill to Detail Ep.109 'Dagster, Orchestration and Software-Defined Assets' with Special Guest Nick Schrock from 2023-08-03T07:52:15

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by returning guest and Elementl Founder Nick Shrock to talk about Dagster's role in the modern data stack ecosystem ...

Drill to Detail Ep.108 "Mode, ThoughtSpot and AI as the Next Discontinuity" with Special Guest Benn Stancil from 2023-07-20T17:19:17

Mark Rittman is joined in this special episode of Drill to Detail by Benn Stancil, CTO and Founder at Mode to talk about their recent acquisition by Though...

Drill to Detail Ep.107 'Cube, Headless BI and the AI Semantic Layer' with Special Guest Artyom Keydunov from 2023-07-06T15:58:54

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Artyom Keydunov, Founder at Cube to talk about embedded analytics and Cube's origin story, headless BI, query acc...

Drill to Detail Ep.106 'Customer Studio, Hightouch Performance and the Evolution of Reverse ETL' with Special Guest Tejas Manohar from 2023-06-22T22:11:18

Hightouch co-Founder and co-CEO Tejas Manohar returns as special guest to talk with Mark Rittman about the reverse ETL market today, the evolution of the c...

Drill to Detail Ep.105 ‘Data Catalogs, Data Discovery and Data Lineage for the Modern Data Stack’ with Special Guest Shinji Kim from 2023-06-01T22:15:47

Mark is joined by Shinji Kim, Founder and CEO of Select Star to talk about their mission to re-invent data catalogs, data discovery and data lineage for th...

Drill to Detail Ep.104 ‘Delta Lakes, Tiger Temples and the Databricks Lakehouse Platform’ with Special Guests Jason Pohl and Stewart Bryson from 2023-05-17T22:19:47

Mark Rittman is joined by Jason Pohl, Senior Director of Data Management at Databricks along with special co-host and Head of Customer Experience at Coales...

Drill to Detail Ep. 103 'Reverse ETL, Profiles Sync and Segment Unify' with Special Guest Kevin Niparko from 2023-04-26T17:11

Mark Rittman is joined by Twilio Segment Head of Product Kevin Niparko to talk about trends in the customer data platform market, Reverse ETL and Profiles ...

Drill to Detail Ep.102 'LLMs, Semantic Models and Bringing AI to the Modern Data Stack' with Special Guest David Jayatillake from 2023-04-14T10:08:49

Mark Rittman is joined by David Jayatillake, CEO and co-founder of Delphi Labs, to talk about the role of semantic models and the marketplace today, large ...

Drill to Detail Ep.101 ‘The Story Behind the Story of RJ Metrics, Fishtown Analytics and dbt Labs’ with Special Guest Tristan Handy from 2023-03-22T23:45:38

Joining Mark Rittman for this 101st Episode Special for the Drill to Detail Podcast is Tristan Handy, CEO and Founder of dbt Labs talking about what went r...

Drill to Detail Ep.100 Special ‘Past, Present and Future of the Modern Data Stack’ with Special Guests Keenan Rice, Stewart Bryson and Jake Stein from 2023-03-07T11:41:50

Joining Mark Rittman for this 100th Episode Special are Keenan Rice (previously Founding Team, GTM Executive at Looker, now GM at Firebolt), Stewart Bryson...

Drill to Detail Ep.99 “Is the Modern Data Stack Dead?” with Special Guest Chris Tabb from 2023-02-15T18:56:11

Drill to Detail Ep.98 'Why the Future of Notebooks Isn't Just About Notebooks' with Special Guest Izzy Miller from 2022-05-24T08:02:43

Mark Rittman is joined by Izzy Miller to talk about Hex, a collaborative data platform that brings everyone together to explore, analyze, and share … and w...

Drill to Detail Ep.97 'The Role of GA4 in the Future MarTech Stack' with Special Guest Daniel Perry-Reed from 2022-05-12T15:16:27

We’re joined on this episode of Drill to Detail by fellow Brightonian Daniel Perry-Reed from Measurelab, talking with Mark about the new Google Analytics 4...

Drill to Detail Ep.96 'Omni's Mission to Answer the First 100 Questions' with Special Guest Colin Zima from 2022-04-26T14:29:10

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 looki...

Drill to Detail Ep.95 'Mozart Data and solving the Modern Data Stack Skills Shortage' with Special Guest Peter Fishman from 2022-04-07T17:41:46

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Peter Fishman to talk about Mozart Data, the modern data stack and the need to automate the role of the analytics...

Drill to Detail Ep.94 'Rudderstack and the Warehouse-First Customer Data Platform' with Special Guest Eric Dodds from 2022-03-22T08:03:03

Mark Rittman is joined by Eric Dodds to talk about Rudderstack's founding story and open-source roots, Segment compatibility and event-based pricing vs. MT...

Drill to Detail Ep.93 'Lightdash, Looker and dbt as the BI Tool Metrics Layer' with Special Guest Katie Hindson from 2022-03-09T17:47:12

In this first episode of a new series, Mark Rittman is joined by Katie Hindson to talk about Lightdash, a new open-source alternative to Looker that uses d...

Drill to Detail Ep.92 'dbt, Spectacles and Making Testing Sexy' with Special Guests Dylan Baker and Josh Temple from 2021-06-23T23:20:09

We're joined on this episode of Drill to Detail by Dylan Baker and Josh Temple to talk about developing multi-layer modern data stack projects, Spectacles’...

Drill to Detail Ep.91 'GraphQL, Data Platform Engineers and Dagster' With Special Guest Nick Schrock from 2021-06-01T21:08:56

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Nick Schrock, ex-Facebook Engineer and now Founder of Elementl to talk about GraphQL, data platform engineers and...

Drill to Detail Ep.90 'Apache Kafka, Real-Time Stream Processing and ksqlDB' with Special Guest Michael Drogalis from 2021-05-20T13:34:23

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Michale Drogalis, Product Manager at Confluent to talk about the history of Apache Kafka and real-time stream pro...

Drill to Detail Ep.89 'Firebolt and the History of Cloud Data Warehousing' with Special Guest Eldad Farkash from 2021-04-28T11:04

Mark Rittman is joined by Eldad Farkash, Co-Founder and CEO at Firebolt to talk about SiSense and Panorama, the history of cloud data warehouses and how Fi...

Drill to Detail Ep.88 'Superset, Preset and the Future of Business Intelligence' with Special Guest Maxime Beauchemin from 2021-04-12T17:06:20

Maxime Beauchemin returns to the Drill to Detail Podcast and joins Mark Rittman to talk about what's new with Apache Airflow 2.0, the origin story for Apac...

Drill to Detail Ep.87 'Sunopsis, Fast Data and Oracle Data Integration's Data Mesh' with Special Guest Jeff Pollock from 2021-03-29T17:36:19

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Jeff Pollock, Vice President Product Development for Fast Data at Oracle, to talk about the history of Oracle Dat...

Drill to Detail Ep. 86 'Reverse ETL, Hightouch and CDW as CDP' with Special Guest Tejas Manohar from 2021-03-15T18:03:09

Mark Rittman is joined by Tejas Manohar from Hightouch to talk about the concept of "reverse ETL", his journey from working on Segment's Personas product t...

Drill to Detail Ep.85 'Data Quality, Data Trust and Preventing Data Downtime' with Special Guest Barr Moses from 2021-03-03T23:12:04

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new series with Mark joined by special guest Barr Moses to talk about data-driven customer success, data quality ...

Drill to Detail Ep.84 '2020 Review&Coalesce Special' with Special Guests Tristan Handy&Stewart Bryson from 2020-12-08T13:23:20

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for an end-of-year and Coalesce 2020 special episode, with Mark Rittman joined by Tristan Handy from Fishtown Analytics...

Drill to Detail Ep.83 ‘Abstracting, Extending and Automating Looker Development with Futuremodel’ with Special Guest Davis Clark from 2020-07-28T23:39:58

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Davis Clark, Founder at Futuremodel, to talk about democratizing Looker development by automating and abstracting the process of LookML develop...

Drill to Detail Ep.82 'Looker Development, Automated Testing and Spectacles' with Special Guest Josh Temple from 2020-06-04T11:54

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Josh Temple, Analytics Engineer at Spotify to talk about analytics development, automated testing and Spectacles, an open-source tool and SaaS ...

Drill to Detail Ep.81 'Meltano, Singer Taps and Open-Source Data Pipelines' with Special Guest Douwe Maan from 2020-05-19T21:23:42

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by GitLab.com Lead Developer Douwe Maan to discuss the history of the open-source Meltano project and its recent refocus on becoming the "glue" th...

Drill to Detail Ep.80 'Data Architecture and Data Teams at Hubspot' with Special Guest James Densmore from 2020-05-05T18:40:47

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Hubspot's Director of Data Infrastructure James Densmore to talk about distributed and remote-friendly data teams, DevOps with dbt and Apache A...

Drill to Detail Ep.79 'Scaling the Modern Data Analytics Stack' with Special Guests Drew Banin and Stewart Bryson from 2020-04-20T21:25:28

Mark Rittman is joined by special guests Drew Banin, co-founder of Fishtown Analytics and maintainer of dbt (data build tool) and Stewart Bryson, long-time friend of the show and CEO/Co...

Drill to Detail Ep.78 ‘Coronavirus, Shutdowns and the Data Analytics Industry’ with Special Guest Seth Rosen from 2020-04-08T19:50:29

In this special episode of Drill to Detail Mark Rittman is joined by Seth Rosen, Co-Founder and Principal at Hashpath to talk about the impact of COVID-19 and the subsequent economic sh...

Drill to Detail Ep.77 ' Keboola, Scaling Analytics and Winning the Looker Join Hackathon' with Special Guest Pavel Dolezal from 2020-01-24T19:51:57

We return with a new episode featuring Keboola CEO Pavel Dolezal on scaling analytics adoption beyond technical developers, the original story behind Keboola and how their team and frie...

Drill to Detail Ep.76 'Segment, Ecosystems and Customer Data Platforms' with Special Guest Calvin French-Owen from 2019-12-17T00:00:04

Mark Rittman is joined in the final Drill to Detail Podcast episode of the year by Calvin French-Owen, co-founder and CTO at Segment to talk about Segment's founding story, partner ecos...

Drill to Detail Ep.75 'Bootstrapping an Early-Stage SaaS Analytics Consultancy' with Special Guest Olivier Dupuis from 2019-11-26T23:49:22

Mark Rittman is joined in this specially-extended episode of Drill to Detail by Olivier Dupuis, founder of Lantrn Analytics to share his experiences growing a product analytics business...

Drill to Detail Ep.74 'Accelerating Oracle from Express to Analytic Views' with Special Guest Bud Endress from 2019-11-13T00:13:11

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Bud Endress, Director, Product Management at Oracle to talk about the evolution of Oracle's query acceleration and in-database OLAP features fr...

Drill to Detail Ep. 73 'Luck, Thinking Different and Designing Looker Data Platform' with Special Guest Colin Zima from 2019-10-28T23:10:45

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new season with Mark Rittman joined in this episode by Colin Zima, VP of Product and Chief Analytics Officer at Looker to talk about luck, thin...

Drill to Detail Ep.72 'Conversion Rate Optimization and Other CRAP' with Special Guest Bhav Patel from 2019-08-05T10:00:02

In this final Drill to Detail Episode before we take a break for the summer, Mark Rittman is joined by Bhav Patel, founder of the London Conversion Rate, Optimization and Product Analyt...

Drill to Detail Ep.71 'The Rise of Snowflake Data Warehouse' With Special Guest Kent Graziano from 2019-07-22T22:18:46

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode of Drill to Detail by returning guest Kent Graziano, Chief Technical Evangelist for Snowflake, to talk about Snowflake Data Warehouse's cloud-firs...

Drill to Detail Ep.70 'Oracle Analytics, Luke Skywalker and the Remarkable Return of Enterprise Analytics' featuring Special Guest Bruno Aziza from 2019-07-08T22:03:17

Mark Rittman is joined by Bruno Aziza, Group Vice President, AI, Data Analytics & Cloud at Oracle to talk about the recently-updated product roadmap for Oracle Analytics, Oracle BI ...

Drill to Detail Ep.69 'Looker, Tableau and Consolidation in the BI Industry' featuring Special Guests Tristan Handy and Stewart Bryson from 2019-06-24T11:30

Mark Rittman, Founder and CEO of Rittman Analytics is joined in this special episode of Drill to Detail by returning guests Tristan Handy, Founder and CEO of Fishtown Analytics and Stew...

Drill to Detail Ep.68 ‘Confluent, Event-First Thinking and Streaming Real-Time Analytics’ With Special Guests Robin Moffatt and Ricardo Ferreira and Special Host Stewart Bryson from 2019-06-17T13:45:34

In this special edition of the Drill to Detail Podcast hosted by Stewart Bryson, CEO and Co-Founder of Red Pill Analytics, he is joined by Robin Moffatt and Ricardo Ferreira, Developer ...

Drill to Detail Ep.67 'Thinking Probabilistically and Scaling-Out the Modern BI Stack' with Special Guest Dylan Baker from 2019-06-03T12:51:55

Mark Rittman is joined by Dylan Baker, freelance analytics consultant, to talk about thinking probabalistically, analytics within venture-funded startups, devops and its role in scaling...

Drill to Detail Ep.66 'ETL, Incorta and the Death of the Star Schema' with Special Guest Matthew Halliday from 2019-05-27T20:35:09

Mark Rittman is joined by Matthew Halliday to talk about the challenge of ETL and analytics on complex relational OLTP data models, previous attempts to solve these problems with produc...

Drill to Detail Ep.65 'Bootstrapping, Growth Hacking and Supermetrics Data Pipelines for Digital Marketers' with Special Guest Mikael Thuneberg from 2019-05-13T23:15:50

Mark Rittman is joined by CEO and Founder of Supermetrics, Mikael Thuneberg, to tell the story of how a mention in the official Google Analytics Blog and a prize of a t-shirt led to him...

Drill to Detail Ep.64 ‘Google BigQuery, BI Engine and the Future of Data Warehousing’ with Special Guest Jordan Tigani from 2019-04-29T21:51:45

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Jordan Tigani, Director of Product Management at Google for Google BigQuery, to talk about the history of BigQuery and its technology origins i...

Drill to Detail Ep.63 'Stitch, Talend and the Evolution of Data Pipelines' with Special Guest Jake Stein from 2019-04-15T21:20:34

Mark Rittman is joined by returning Special Guest Jake Stein, former co-founder and CEO of Stitch and now SVP of Stitch at Talend to talk about the evolution of the data pipeline-as-a-service, d...

Drill to Detail Ep.62 'Enterprise analytics, DW Modernization and the rediscovery of Data Governance' With Special Guest Mike Ferguson from 2019-04-03T09:26:11

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Mike Ferguson, long-term analyst, consultant and Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies to talk about data warehouse modernization, analytic...

Drill to Detail Ep.61 'Kaggle, DataRobot and How to Be a ... Zillionaire!' With Special Guest Jordan Meyer from 2019-03-20T14:15:47

Mark Rittman is joined by DataRobot’s Jordan Meyer to discuss Kaggle, machine learning, deep neural networks and his team’s strategy to win the $1m ZIllow Prize, beating over 1000 other teams to...

Drill to Detail Ep.60 'A Deeper Look Into Looker' With Special Guest Lloyd Tabb from 2019-03-05T12:02:28

The Drill to Detail Podcast returns for a new series with our host, Mark Rittman, joined by Lloyd Tabb, Founder CTO and Chairman of Looker to talk about the foundational story of Looker and Look...

Drill to Detail Ep.59 'Looker, dbt and Digital Analytics Today' With Special Guests Tristan Handy and Stewart Bryson from 2018-10-02T15:33:32

Mark Rittman is joined in this Looker JOIN 2018 Special by long-term friends of the show Tristan Handy from Fishtown Analytics, and Stewart Bryson from Red Pill Analytics to talk about dbt and e...

Drill to Detail Ep.58 'Candy Crush Saga, Analytics and Mobile Gaming' With Special Guest Jonathan Palmer from 2018-07-03T14:30:50

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Jonathan Palmer from King Games to talk about the role of analytics in the development of Candy Crush Saga and other King games, their use of Looker alo...

Drill to Detail Ep.57 'WhereScape Red and Data Warehouse Automation' With Special Guest Neil Barton from 2018-06-18T23:01:34

Mark Rittman is joined by Neil Barton, Chief Technology Officer at WhereScape to talk about metadata-driven data warehouse design, automating the build and management of data warehouse infrastructu...

Drill to Detail Ep.56 'Essbase Cloud, Analytics Cloud and Cloud Analytics Consulting' with Special Guest Matt Yorke from 2018-06-04T15:43:15

In this specially-extended episode just before ODTUG KScope'18, Mark Rittman is joined by Matt Yorke from Qubix to talk about Oracle Essbase Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and the business of Ora...

Drill to Detail Ep.55 'Snowplow, Data Pipelines and Event-Level Digital Analytics' with Special Guest Yali Sassoon from 2018-05-21T21:32:34

Mark Rittman is joined by Yali Sassoon from Snowplow to talk about data pipelines and Hadoop in the cloud; how web analytics evolved from counting pageviews to today's event-level analysis of co...

Drill to Detail Ep.54 'DataRobot&Machine Learning Automation' with Special Guest Greg Michaelson from 2018-05-10T07:44:01

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Greg Michaelson from DataRobot, talking about the benefits of automating the discovery and automation of analytics and machine learning in financial ser...

Drill to Detail Ep.53 'ThoughtSpot, Search and AI-Powered BI' With Special Guest Doug Bordonaro from 2018-04-23T23:03:06

Mark Rittman is joined by ThoughtSpot's Chief Data Evangelist Doug Bordonaro to talk about the value of data, issues around trust and consent raised by the EU's new GDPR regulations, and how Tho...

Drill to Detail Ep.52 'Lyft, Ride-Share Analytics and ETL Developer Productivity ' With Special Guest Mark Grover from 2018-04-09T19:45:26

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Drill to Detail Ep.51 'Druid, Imply and OLAP Analysis on Event-Level Datasets' With Special Guest Fangjin Yang from 2018-03-13T07:38:02

Mark Rittman is joined by Special Guest Fangjin Yang to talk about the history of Druid, a high-performance, column-oriented, distributed data store originally developed by the team at Metamarke...

Drill to Detail Ep.50 'Agile BI, Karl Marx and Our Man from Moscow' With Special Guests Stewart Bryson and Alex Gorbachev from 2018-02-27T08:58:55

Mark Rittman is joined in this 50th Episode Special by our original guest on the first episode of Drill to Detail, Stewart Bryson, to talk about developing agile BI applications using FiveTran, ...

Drill to Detail Ep.49 'Trifacta, Google Cloud Dataprep and Data Wranging for Data Engineers' With Special Guest Will Davis from 2018-02-05T23:41:57

Mark Rittman is joined by Will Davis from Trifacta to talk about the public beta of Google Cloud Dataprep, Trifacta's data wrangling platform and topics including metadata management, data quali...

Drill to Detail Ep.48 'Mondrian OLAP, Apache Calcite and Database Dis-Aggregation' With Special Guest Julian Hyde from 2018-01-23T13:38:45

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Drill to Detail Ep.47 'Business Analytics 2018 Predictive and Best-Practice Christmas&New Year Special' With Special Guest Christian Berg from 2017-12-26T14:22:49

Mark is joined by long-term industry veteran and friend Christian Berg to talk about surviving fifteen years as a contractor in analytics industry, changes he's seen in the market and in how projec...

Drill to Detail Ep.46 'Market Trends and Findings from the BI Survey 17' With Special Guest Dr. Carsten Bange from 2017-12-19T22:50:31

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode of Drill to Detail by Dr. Carsten Bange from BARC to talk about findings from the recently completed BI Survey 17 including the continuing move to modern BI p...

Drill to Detail Ep.45 'Tellius, YellowFin and the State of AI in Analytics Today' With Special Guest Jen Underwood from 2017-12-13T22:31:31

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by returning special guest Jen Underwood to talk about what's new and innovative in the BI and analytics industry right now, and how AI and machine learning a...

Drill to Detail Ep.44 'Pandas, Apache Arrow and In-Memory Analytics' With Special Guest Wes McKinney from 2017-12-08T00:25:17

Mark is joined in this episode of Drill to Detail by Wes McKinney, to talk about the origins of the Python Pandas open-source package for data analysis and his subsequent work as a contributor to t...

Drill to Detail Ep.43 'Oracle Analytics, Data Visualization Desktop 4.0 and The Art of Product Management' with Special Guest Mike Durran from 2017-11-30T14:56:27

Mark is joined by Mike Durran from the Oracle Analytics Product Management team in this UKOUG Tech’17 special to talk about his route into product management via the Oracle Discoverer BI tool, Orac...

Drill to Detail Ep.42 'Evaluex, ML and Optimizing BigQuery&Athena' With Special Guest Avi Zloof from 2017-11-12T22:53:46

Mark is joined in this episode by Avi Zloof from Evaluex to talk about the new world of elastically-provisioned cloud-hosted analytic databases such as Google BigQuery and Amazon Athena, how their ...

Drill to Detail Ep.41 'Developing with Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Platform' With Special Guest Felipe Hoffa from 2017-10-30T17:21:44

Drill to Detail Ep.41 'Developing with Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Platform' With Special Guest Felipe Hoffa Mark is joined in this episode by Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocate Felipe ...

Drill to Detail Ep.40 'Fivetran's Middleware for SaaS Data' With Special Guest Taylor Brown from 2017-10-16T08:10:39

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...

Drill to Detail Ep.39 'Gluent Update and Offloading to the Cloud' with Special Guest Michael Rainey from 2017-10-03T19:22:21

In this episode Mark is joined by ex-colleague and now Technical Advisor to Gluent, Michael Rainey, to talk about hybrid platforms and Gluent's new cloud offload capability, the Hadoop market in...

Drill to Detail Ep.38 'Oracle's Big Data Strategy Before OOW' with Special Guest Jean-Pierre Dijcks from 2017-09-19T20:08:31

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,...

Drill to Detail Ep.37 'How Essbase Won the OLAP Wars' With Special Guest Cameron Lackpour from 2017-08-01T07:51:02

Mark Rittman is joined in this Summer Special episode by none other than Cameron Lackpour, Essbase expert and Oracle ACE Director, to talk about why and how Essbase won the OLAP wars, how Essbase S...

Drill to Detail Ep.36 'Marketing Analytics, AI and the Rise of the Omni-channel Consumer' With Special Guest Mark Madsen from 2017-07-24T18:02

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 ...

Drill to Detail Ep.35 'Stitch Data, Singer and ETL for Data Engineers' With Special Guest Jake Stein from 2017-07-17T22:41:36

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...

Drill to Detail Ep.34 'Qlik, MSAS and the Strategy of Data Analytics' with Special Guest Donald Farmer from 2017-07-12T15:09:57

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 produc...

Drill to Detail Ep.33 'Building Out Analytics Functions in Startups' With Special Guest Tristan Handy from 2017-07-03T20:01:07

In this episode Mark is joined by Tristan Handy from Fishtown Analytics to talk about building-out analytics functions in high-growth startups and three related blog posts on this topic.

Drill to Detail Ep.32 'What Really Works in eCommerce' With Special Guest Will Browne from 2017-06-26T16:44:35

Mark is joined by Qubit colleague Will Browne to talk about his recent academic paper co-authored with Mike Swarbrick Jones on what techniques are most successful in influencing and retaining eComm...

Drill to Detail Ep.31 'Dremel, Druid and Data Modeling on Google BigQuery' With Special Guest Dan McClary from 2017-06-19T21:55:26

Mark is joined by returning special guest Dan McClary to talk about data modeling and database design on distributed query engines such as Google BigQuery, the underlying Dremel technology and Capa...

Drill to Detail Ep.30 "AI, ML&Oracle's Adaptive Intelligence Applications" with Special Guest Jack Berkowitz from 2017-06-13T09:04:18

Oracle's Jack Berkowitz joins Mark Rittman to talk about a new category of continuously adapting, self-learning applications being built-out by Oracle that use machine learning together with enterp...

Drill to Detail Ep.29 'New-World BI Development using BigQuery, Looker, Kakfa and Streamsets' With Special Guest Stewart Bryson from 2017-06-05T22:44:02

Stewart Bryson returns to the show to join Mark Rittman to discuss new-world BI and data warehousing development using Google BigQuery and Amazon Athena, Apache Kafka and StreamSets, and talks abou...

Drill to Detail Ep.28 'Oracle Analytics, 12c and Data Visualization' with Special Guest Adrian Ward from 2017-05-30T07:22:31

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Independent Consultant Adrian Ward to talk about Oracle Business Analytics, Data Visualization, the BI Applications and his new book on Oracle Business Int...

Drill to Detail Ep.27 'Apache Kafka, Streaming Data Integration and Schema Registry' with Special Guest Gwen Shapira from 2017-05-22T22:22:41

Mark Rittman is joined by Gwen Shapira from Confluent to talk about Apache Kafka, streaming data integration and how it differs from batch-based, GUI-developed ETL development, the problem with arc...

Drill to Detail Ep.26 'Airflow, Superset&The Rise of the Data Engineer' with Special Guest Maxime Beauchemin from 2017-05-15T22:21:44

Mark Rittman is joined by Maxime Beauchemin to talk about analytics and data integration at Airbnb, the Apache Airflow and Airbnb Superset open-source projects, and his recent Medium article on "Th...

Drill to Detail Ep.25 'SAP BusinessObjects Analytics, AI and Digital Transformation' With Special Guest Timo Elliott from 2017-05-01T20:41:34

Mark Rittman is joined by Timo Elliott, originally of Business Objects and now Innovation Evangelist for SAP, to talk about the origins of self-service BI with Business Objects' innovative "Univers...

Drill to Detail Ep.24 'Tom Sawyer Software, Graph + Spatial Analytics .... and why a Tweet goes Viral' With Special Guest Kevin Madden from 2017-04-04T17:31:54

Mark Rittman is joined by Kevin Madden and Josh Feingold to talk about graph + spatial analytics, Tom Sawyer Software ... and why a tweet goes viral

Drill to Detail Ep.23 ‘Looker, BigQuery and Analytics on Big Data’ With Special Guest Daniel Mintz from 2017-03-28T12:24:03

Mark Rittman is joined by Daniel Mintz from Looker to talk about BI and analytics on Google BigQuery, data modelling on the new generation of cloud-based distributed-data warehousing platforms, and...

Drill to Detail Ep.22 'SnapLogic's Enterprise Integration Cloud' With Special Guest Craig Stewart from 2017-03-20T23:45:03

Mark Rittman is joined by Craig Stewart to talk about application and data integration, ODI and Sunopsis, SnapLogic's approach to hybrid on-premise/cloud integration and the rise of data preparatio...

Drill to Detail Ep.21 'The Fall, and Rise, of Microsoft BI' With Special Guest Chris Webb from 2017-03-14T17:24:09

Mark Rittman is joined by Independent Consultant Chris Webb to talk about MDX & DAX, MSAS and SQL Server and the fall ... and rise, of Microsoft BI

Drill to Detail Ep.20 'MapR Platform Differentation, Scaling Hadoop and Microservices' With Special Guest Tugdall Grall from 2017-03-06T23:35:01

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by MapR's Tugdall Grall to talk about MapR's platform differentation and relationship with open-source Hadoop, scaling and streaming, microservices, and MapR'...

Drill to Detail Ep.19 'Elasticsearch, Elastic Stack&Elastic Cloud' With Special Guest Mark Walkom from 2017-02-21T23:58:29

Mark Rittman is joined by Elastic's Mark Walkom to talk about Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash and the Elastic Stack; business models built-around an open-source software core; and their move into c...

Drill to Detail Ep.18 'Oracle's Cloud Analytics and Data Visualization Strategy' With Special Guest Vasu Murthy from 2017-02-08T22:41:20

Mark Rittman is joined by Vasu Murthy, Oracle's Senior Director for Product Management of Oracle Business Analytics to talk about what's new with OBIEE and Oracle Data Visualization and the recentl...

Drill to Detail Ep.17 ‘Mode 1 Analytics and the Future of Cloud DWs’ With Special Guest Rick Greenwald from 2017-02-02T17:06:44

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 ar...

Drill to Detail Ep.16 'Qubit, Visitor Cloud&Google BigQuery' With Special Guest Alex Olivier from 2017-01-24T08:18:21

Mark Rittman is joined by Alex Olivier from Qubit to talk about their platform journey from on-premise Hadoop to petabytes of data running in Google Cloud Platform, using Google Cloud Dataflow (aka...

Drill to Detail Ep.15 ‘Modern BI and the Gartner BI Magic Quadrant 2016’ With Special Guest Cindi Howson from 2017-01-17T16:00:50

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...

Drill to Detail Ep.14 ‘Cloudy Big Data Paradigm-Shifting Christmas&New Year Special’ With Special Guest Robin Moffatt from 2016-12-21T10:00:10

Mark Rittman is joined in this Christmas & New Year special episode by none-other than Robin Moffatt, head of R&D at Rittman Mead and an old colleague from my consulting days, to talk about his exp...

Drill to Detail Ep.13 ‘Apache Drill, MapR + Bringing Data Discovery to Hadoop&NoSQL’ with Special Guest Neeraja Rentachintala from 2016-12-13T15:39:09

Mark Rittman is joined by MapR's Neeraja Rentachintala to talk about Apache Drill, Apache Arrow, MapR-DB, extending Hadoop-based data discovery to self-describing file formats and NoSQL databases, ...

Drill to Detail Ep.12 'Gluent and the New World of Hybrid Data' with Special Guest Tanel Poder from 2016-12-06T06:44:45

Mark Rittman is joined by Gluent's Tanel Poder to talk about Hadoop, Gluent Data Platform, the coming of the hybrid world and how Hadoop will evolve as it moves into the cloud.

Drill to Detail Ep.11 'OLAP, Consulting&BI Past Present + Future' with Special Guest Graham Spicer from 2016-11-29T09:58:01

Mark Rittman is joined by Graham Spicer to talk about BI past, present and future including the history of Oracle OLAP, running and owning a consulting business over 30 years of changes in the indu...

Drill to Detail Ep.10 'Oracle's Big Data Reboot, and Data Storytelling' With Special Guest Stewart Bryson from 2016-11-22T18:29:22

Mark Rittman is joined once more by Stewart Bryson, talking about Oracle's recent reboot of it's cloud big data platform at Oracle Openworld 2016, thoughts on DataFlowML and comparisons with Google...

Drill to Detail Ep.9 'Streamsets, Data-in-Motion and Data Drift' with Special Guest Pat Patterson from 2016-11-15T15:30:45

Mark Rittman is joined by StreamSets' Pat Patterson, talking about data in motion and doing it at scale, the story behind StreamSets and the problem of data drift, and the challenges involved in ma...

Drill to Detail Ep.8 'Self-Service BI, Data Prep&Big Data Vendor Strategy' with Special Guest Jen Underwood from 2016-11-08T06:31:52

Mark Rittman is joined by Jen Underwood to discuss the aftermath of the Gartner BI&A Magic Quadrant 2016 and the rise of self-service, Mode-2 analytics; innovation in predictive analytics and data ...

Drill to Detail Ep.7 'Apache Spark, and Hadoop Application Architectures' with Special Guest Mark Grover from 2016-11-01T15:58:08

Mark is joined by Cloudera's Mark Grover to talk about his work with Apache Spark and Apache Spot, and the book "Hadoop Application Architectures" co-authored with Gwen Shapira, Jonathan Seidman an...

Drill to Detail Ep.6 'Data Capital and the Economics of Big Data' with Special Guest Paul Sonderegger from 2016-10-25T10:59:32

Mark Rittman is joined by special guest Paul Sonderegger, Oracle's Big Data Strategist, to talk about Data Capital and the economic impact of big data

Drill to Detail Ep. 5 'SnowflakeDB, and is Data Modeling Dead?' with Special Guest Kent Graziano from 2016-10-18T14:43:51

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?"

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Drill to Detail Ep.4 'Reference Architectures Revisited' with Special Guest Andrew Bond from 2016-10-11T11:06

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode by Oracle's Andrew Bond, to talk about their Big Data Reference Architecture two years on"

Drill to Detail Ep.3 'Apache Kudu and Cloudera's Analytic Platform' with Special Guest Mike Percy from 2016-10-04T20:46

Mark Rittman is joined by Cloudera's Mike Percy, to talk about Apache Kudu, Analytics on Hadoop, and Cloudera's work in this area

Drill to Detail Ep.2. 'Future of SQL on Hadoop', With Special Guest Dan McClary from 2016-09-27T21:13

Mark Rittman is joined by Dan McClary, ex-Oracle Big Data SQL PM and now working on Google's Storage Division on big data projects, to talk about the future of SQL-on-Hadoop.

Drill To Detail Ep.1. 'After The Gartner BI&A Magic Quadrant 2016', With Special Guest Stewart Bryson from 2016-09-20T08:00

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