Vishal Srivastava

Vishal Srivastava

Data & AI Consultant - Thoughtworks

Vishal is a Senior Data Consultant with DevOps skills who has worked across a range of industries. He has experience in establishing Cloud Infrastructure Foundations, Event Driven Data Lake, Data Visualisation, Master Data Management, Data Quality, Data Governance frameworks and Data Mesh. He is passionate about real time event driven distributed systems. Vishal has used these experiences to enable use cases which help businesses realise real value from data.

Sessions

Rethinking Data Catalogs: The Promise and Pitfalls

The promise of data catalogs – a single source of truth for your organisation's data – often clashes with the reality of under utilised features, redundancy across various data catalog solutions across teams, adoption challenges and a lack of clear strategy. This talk will pose some critical questions concerning current approaches of choosing and implementing data catalogs: -Do you actually need a Data catalog.Are data catalogs becoming just glorified registries without much practical use. -Why do organisations find themselves juggling multiple catalogs? - Is user adoption the missing piece in the data catalog puzzle? -Finding the right fit. How do you identify the right fit and what are the considerations.Is there a practical framework to select the ideal catalog for your specific needs. -Measuring success.Is there a way to understand the tangible return on investment (ROI) for this investment - Synergy or Redundancy System Catalog vs Data Catalog : Is there a synergy between System Catalog & Data Catalog We'll dissect the reasons behind these challenges and explore solutions and strategies based on our experience of implementing data catalogs across different organisations and share a more streamlined approach towards data catalog journey.

Starts: 11:10 AM

Ends: 11:40 AM