Keeping it 100 about metadata; the data stack glue w/ Fraser Harris, VP of Product, Fivetran

Answering critical business questions relies on integrating data from a variety of systems. But it takes a lot of work to understand what the disparate data means and how it all fits together. How do we make data as reliable as an electricity?

Join Tim Gasper, Juan Sequeda and Fraser Harris, VP of Product at Fivetran, as they celebrate the 100th live episode of Catalog & Cocktails and discuss how #metadata, #datacatalogs, and #dataintegration act as the power source for your connected enterprise

Key Takeaways:

• [02:02 - 03:49] Cheers to 100th episode, good health, children, and sky miles
• [04:10 - 05:11] Keeping it 100, Millennial and Gen Z slang
• [05:12 - 07:05] What metadata means to Fraser, the data about the data
• [07:07 - 10:00] Fivetran's new metadata API
• [11:32 - 13:33] Action, enforcement, and results in understanding data management
• [13:52 - 17:51] Data contracts and the interface
• [17:53 - 20:07] Upstream notifications and transforming data
• [20:55 - 24:01] Perspectives on having a system and record owner for data contracts
• [24:31 - 30:38] Representing business process change in contract evolutions
• [30:40 - 31:58] Cultures around data at newer companies
• [32:15 - 34:34] The two main use cases of Fivetran's data and the impact analysis
• [34:34 - 36:25] Two dimensions to data proactivity, data maturity and company size
• [36:26 - 41:26] Steering data complexity to simplicity, business value behavior and technology costs
• [41:28 - 43:47] Reliability and data pipeline
• [43:52 - 45:10] What Fraser wants to see happen around metadata
• [45:10 - 47:15] The process of migrating to the cloud and adopting new data policies
• [48:47 - 55:25] Lightning round
• [55:28 - 01:00:43] Tim & Juan's takeaways
• [01:00:57 - 01:02:49] Three questions for Fraser
• [01:04:43 - 01:05:14] Next week's guest, Rupal Sumaria from Penguin Random House