In this edition of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Dan Woods spoke with Sushil Thomas, co-founder and CEO of Arcadia Data, while both were at Strata NYC. Woods has written about how Arcadia Data's platform is attempting to save the data lake (link: https://www.arcadiadata.com/blog/the-best-ways-to-get-value-from-data-lakes/; link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2018/08/02/the-path-to-repeatable-ai-success-why-data-fabrics-are-the-next-step/#4a8f1a17313f) by making it more actionable and useful for companies -- and not just a place to store all one's data. He and Thomas discussed Arcadia Data's new release of search-based BI and how that will allow analysts to bypass IT to get the IT data they need.Other topics covered in this episode include:<) The flexibility of the Arcadia Data search-based BI interface<) Using AI to improve how search-based BI operates<) The problems of accessing data and harnessing big data<) Arcadia Data's data native approach<) The best ways to operationalize your data