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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think data governance is becoming more and more important as people are struggling.”