Data Leaders Series
Ibrahim Elawadi on Trends in Analytics
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I would say the data mesh one is very interesting because you know like we've been moving since 2012 towards the idea of the data lake, which is let's put everything in one place, put all the data from social media, from crm, from politics, everything into one massive data lake. But the problem is this is getting very complicated to manage. You don't have an owner and you don't have someone who's really understanding what does this data mean? Our how can we get a value out of this data? So there is a move to another direction which is do not put everything in one place, but it will be in many places. So every team will have their own data. It will be a data lake for each team and each team will own the data will understand the data better than everyone and would provide the data as a product to other departments, which I think is interesting. I think there is a lot of uncertainty about what will happen with this, but I think it's an interesting trend to look for. Indeed, and I think maybe the biggest challenge is it's not uh industries wide trend. So having this data lakes for each team means you have, you need a data engineers and another takes engineers and every team which is not affordable by every organization. So that would work for a certain segment of the market. But regardless, I think it's a very interesting trend to see