Steve Neat, the VP EMEA of a large US data management company called Alation, joins me in a conversation about Data Intelligence. IDC recently coined the term to mean a system that delivers trustworthy, reliable data. It's also helping companies like Vattenfall, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's, and more build thriving data-driven cultures. We discuss how Alation started life as a data catalog company and how brands like Vattenfall and M&S have used data intelligence to build a real-time glossary and ensure that all of their users have a common understanding of critical business terms. I learn how this ability to better understand and trust data across an organization leads to creating communities around data where people can reach out to each other and share information.
