Inside Insights: Power of a Cloud Data Warehouse with Matt Florian

In this next episode of Tech-Driven Business, Matt Florian of Comerit, joins Mustansir Saifuddin to talk about the urgency and motivation for companies to move to a cloud-based data warehouse. This is the beginning of a series of episodes that will dive into how newer tools, like Snowflake, are changing the landscape for companies to blend in different types of data, including their existing SAP systems.  Matt's takeaway: don't wait to start. There will always be something new coming on the horizon so start with a small project and buildup.

Matt has more than 25 years of leadership in data and enterprise architecture in numerous industries. He has successfully delivered enterprise data transformation projects for government, telecommunication, retail, manufacturing, and financial services sectors.

Matt began consulting focusing on data warehousing in telecommunication for national providers. Over the course of his career has consulted for Oracle, IBM, and Unisys across many industries. His leadership, experience, and clarity of technical topics earned him the trust of client executive leadership. Matt’s talent to develop and lead teams is the key to his successful delivery of projects for clients.

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Episode Transcript:

[00:00:03.690] - Mustansir Saifuddin

Welcome to Tech-Driven Business. Brought to you by Innovative Solution Partners. In this first episode of a multipart series, I welcome Matt Florian of Comerit. Listen in as Matt shares his thoughts on why companies are moving to a cloud data warehouse with such a sense of urgency. With data volumes growing, it's important for companies to take advantage of the power of new technology tools that Matt talks about, including snowflake.

 

[00:00:35.510] - Mustansir Saifuddin

Hello, Matt. How are you?

 

[00:00:37.600] - Matt Florian

I'm doing fine Mustansir how are you?

 

[00:00:40.090] - Mustansir Saifuddin

Doing well. Welcome to Tech-Driven Business. It's a pleasure to have you on my show.

 

[00:00:46.160] - Matt Florian

I'm very grateful to be a member of it and be part of this with you, man.

 

[00:00:51.710] - Mustansir Saifuddin

Awesome. So today we will kick off basically the idea is to kick off a series of podcasts which will revolve around cloud based data warehouses. And we would like to dive into this topic of why companies are transitioning to cloud based data warehouses. Right. And at the same time, what are some of the benefits that they are getting with this move? How does that sound to you?

 

[00:01:18.420] - Matt Florian

That sounds great. Let's get talking.

 

[00:01:21.110] - Mustansir Saifuddin

Awesome. Okay. I know this topic is very near and dear to you, and I'm very glad that we have you on our show, and this will be a great conversation. So let's start with our why, right? So why it is so important right now, moving to a cloud based data warehouse? And the urgency. I think there's two components of this. Right. Why is it important for companies and the same time? What is the urgency behind it?

 

[00:01:47.800] - Matt Florian

Sure. Well, I think that a lot of companies have taken a fair amount of time in the last several years of getting their process