Stanek: Business rate of change is enterprise data's biggest challenge
Roman Stanek · a16z Podcast | Making the Most of the Data That Matters · Jan 2, 2019 · at 13:13
Roman Stanek, founder of GoodData, discusses why enterprise analytics systems routinely fail to meet business needs on an a16z podcast panel.
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“I actually believe that the biggest problem of data, not big data, small data, any data, is the rate of change of business.”
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