S1 - 38 | The Enterprise Data Catalog with Ole Olesen-Bagneux

The promise of data catalogues is to help us find the right information at the right time. This episode is for people that want to understand the organization's critical assets and their relationships and build an enterprise data catalog that actually works.

We will start by defining what a data catalogue really is, and explain the strategic value that this capability brings to the business. We then deep dive into how to organize data in data catalogs and other metadata repositories, starting from why most catalogues don’t work and discovering some of the techniques that we can use to deliver results both short term and long term.

My guest today isOle Olesen-Bagneux, author of the upcoming book “Enterprise Data Catalogues” published by O’Reilly media. If there is one thing to remember from this conversation is that how we organize data defines how we can search for it, and that we need to rely less on technology and more on the human factor when organizing data.

Ole is passionate about data management, particularly about the problem of search: how do we search for data. He dreams of searches that are seamless, and powerful that that can help us answer even the most intricate business questions. Ole has a LinkedIn newsletter called theSymphony of Search, a supplement to his upcoming book where he guides us through the world of search by telling us the story of a very special organization, and focuses on the search of the future.