Data & Analytics Leadership and Vision for 2019

During this interview-style webcast Infogix’s Emily Washington, SVP of Product Management looked ahead in 2018 and predicted what trends will come to fruition, what new concepts will graze the horizon, and what may fail to launch.

Key topics discussed during the webinar: *Data in Motion pitfalls and opportunities *Validating data doesn’t equate to slowing down your process *Comparing and contrasting approaches *The missing link in data governance explained

For a data analyst, financial analytics is one of the most useful skill sets to inculcate given the rapid growth of roles in this booming sector. A specialisation in this field will be a value-add given the rapid rise of fintech in India’s digital ecosystem. Financial analytics helps companies uncover deeper insights into the company’s finances and can help in finding pain points and new streams of revenue. Financial Analysts work in investment firms, banks, insurance sector and digital payments companies.

Modern-day systems are transforming into complex, open-source, cloud-native services running on various environments and being developed/deployed at lightning speed by distributed teams. When working on these systems, identifying a broken link in the chain can be near impossible. Everything fails at one point or another, whether due to code bugs, infrastructure overload, or changes in end-user behavior or market driven factors or errors in data collection. This has led to the rise of DataOps with a focus on changing the organizational speed and trust in delivering data pipelines and the related artifacts by co-creating “decision quality” data with the consumers. This development has led to the idea of observability that includes monitoring, tracking, and triaging incidents to prevent downtime of the systems and around several factors such as freshness, distribution, volume, schema, lineage.