S2E5 - Big, Bad Data: How B.I. Is Adapting to Overcome Challenges Posed by Unstructured Data with Heather Hill

00:37 – Introducing today’s guest, Heather Hill, who shares her background in business intelligence, highlights from her career and how she has advocated for more women in B.I. 

05:33 – Heather speaks to the impact that Covid-19 has had on her personally and from a business perspective 

07:51 – Heather shares her opinions on big data, the vital role it will continue to play in our future and best practices for managing and governing our data 

13:05 – Heather discusses the challenges organizations face when it comes to ownership of data 

16:05 – Challenges Heather has faced when moving her repository data to the cloud and how to overcome these obstacles 

19:21 – Heather speculates on the prospect of doing good B.I. against unstructured data 

23:44 – Heather speculates on the future of B.I. and expounds on the importance of user adoption 

EPISODE QUOTES

“We’re still on a journey to get to the place where we can elevate our data to action.” (08:59)  

“The biggest challenge is the hybrid environment. You can move your repository, your data warehouse, up to the cloud. But probably not every component of that architecture is cloud-enabled.” (16:21)  

“If the journey of B.I. is to move away from a technology-focused user to a business user, then it’s hard for that user base to do B.I. on that unstructured data. I don’t think the tools are easy enough yet for the audience that we’re trying to get to.” (19:46)  

“I think data storytelling is a new, hot topic of really having the folks who are telling a story with the data, rather than you having to go drive to the answers and really elevating that message to more actionable insights and actionable analytics.” (24:04)  

“I think data governance is becoming more and more important as people are struggling.” (26:17)

LINKS MENTIONED

Limitless BI Website

Heather’s LinkedIn