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Al and Douwe Maan discuss making data more accessible and recognizing your data potential
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Al and Douwe Maan discuss making data more accessible and recognizing your data potential

Send us Fan Mail Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [[email protected]] and tell us why you should be next. Abstract Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun. This week on Making Data Simple, we have Douwe Maan. Douwe is the Founder and CEO of Meltano, an open source data integration and transformation platform. He joined GitLab as employee number 10 while still in college and later became its Engineering Manager. Meltano originally began as an internal project within GitLab, but spun out as an independent startup in early 2021 while raising $4.2 million in seed funding led by GV. Today, Meltano has over 5,000 active projects every month and supports data integration connectors for almost 300 sources and destinations. Show Notes 1:30 – Douwe’s history 4:00 – What is an iPhone jail break? 8:04 – How would you describe Meltano? 10:38 – What kind of tools do you use? 12:12 – Did you start with ELT? 16:08 – Is this dev ops or data ops and what is the difference? 18:38 – What platform does Meltano use? 29:52 – What can you do that no one else can do? 32:10 – Do you have point and click analytics? 36:23 – How do you measure success? Meltano Connect with the Team Producer Kate Brown - LinkedIn. Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn. Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

Making Data Simple · IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub

December 15, 202148m 0s

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Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [[email protected]] and tell us why you should be next.

Abstract

Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

This week on Making Data Simple, we have Douwe Maan. Douwe is the Founder and CEO of Meltano, an open source data integration and transformation platform. He joined GitLab as employee number 10 while still in college and later became its Engineering Manager. Meltano originally began as an internal project within GitLab, but spun out as an independent startup in early 2021 while raising $4.2 million in seed funding led by GV. Today, Meltano has over 5,000 active projects every month and supports data integration connectors for almost 300 sources and destinations.

Show Notes
1:30 – Douwe’s history

4:00 – What is an iPhone jail break?

8:04 – How would you describe Meltano?

10:38 – What kind of tools do you use?

12:12 – Did you start with ELT?

16:08 – Is this dev ops or data ops and what is the difference?

18:38 – What platform does Meltano use?

29:52 – What can you do that no one else can do?

32:10 – Do you have point and click analytics?

36:23 – How do you measure success?

Meltano 

Connect with the Team
Producer Kate Brown - LinkedIn.
Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn.
Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple?  Reach out to us at [email protected] and tell us why you should be next.  The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.