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Creating Reusable Data Products: Is Shifting Left the Key?

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A conversation with Forrester and Bill Inmon

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While analytical systems like data warehouses and lakehouses play a vital role in most organizations today, teams struggle to unlock the full value of these systems. These challenges often arise from poor data quality and the repetitive data-cleansing tasks from batch ELT and ETL pipelines. Maximizing the ROI of these systems requires a “Shift Left” approach, moving the data cleaning and processing upstream to the point where data is created.

Join Bill Inmon, the Father of Data Warehousing, guest speaker, Forrester VP, and Principal Analyst Mike Gualtieri, and Director of Product Marketing Bharath Chari for an in-depth exploration of Shift Left and learn how this simple yet powerful approach to data ingestion is helping companies innovate today. Together, we’ll explore:

  • The evolution of data warehouses to lakehouses and the challenges of ELT pipelines.
  • Why Data Streaming Platforms are becoming the clear choice for analytics, GenAI, and operational use cases.
  • Real-world customer implementation stories that demonstrate how companies are already Shifting Left.
Bill InmonFather of the Data Warehouse

Bill Inmon is known as the father of the data warehouse. Bill has written 70 books published in 9 languages. One of Bill’s books BUILDING THE DATA WAREHOUSE has sold over 500,000 copies. Bill was named by Computerworld as one of the ten most influential thought leaders in the history of computing.

Bill developed the technology for textual disambiguation, which reads raw text and turns that text into a standard database. Bill founded and took public Prism Solutions, the original ETL company. Bill founded Datavox.ai, which does textual disambiguation and supports textual ETL.

Bill lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife and his two Scotty dogs – Jeb and Lena.

Mike GualiteriVP, Principal Analyst, Forrester

Mike's research focuses on AI technologies, platforms, and practices that enable technology professionals to deliver applications that lead to prescient digital experiences and breakthrough operational efficiency. His key technology coverage areas are AI and emerging technologies that make software faster, smarter, and transformative for global enterprises and organizations. Read more here.

Bharath Chari Director, Product Marketing, Confluent

Bharath heads the product marketing team at Confluent, specializing in use cases and go-to-market strategy. In this role, he collaborates closely with sales, product, and customer success teams to drive customer success and product adoption.