Your data and AI use-cases are multiplying. At the same time, there is increased focus and scrutiny to meet sophisticated security and regulatory requirements. IQVIA utilizes serverless use-cases across data engineering, data analytics, and ML and AI, to empower their customers to make informed decisions, support their R&D processes and improve patient outcomes. By leveraging native controls on the platform, serverless enables them to streamline their use cases while maintaining a strong security posture, top performance and optimized costs. This session will go over IQVIA’s journey to serverless, how they met their security and regulatory requirements, and the latest and upcoming enhancements to the Databricks Platform.

In this episode, Wayne Eckerson and Matthew Schwartz discuss non-traditional uses of business intelligence tools. Although BI tools have been around for almost three decades, most companies just scratch the surface of what’s possible to do with those tools. Using web layers and APIs, a company can use their imagination to customize and leverage their exiting BI tool-set to monetize data, integrate tribal knowledge and build industry-specific proprietary products.

Matthew Schwartz is the chief technology officer of Sage Hospitality, one of the world's largest hotel operators. Although Matt is responsible for all aspects of Sage’s IT operations, he has a deep fondness for data and analytics, having served as a BI director for several companies, including PetSmart and Staples. Matt firmly believes in the power of BI tools to transform organizations.