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Think IT Association

Mission: “To foster professional growth and development through the power of

networking and collaboration.”

• Think IT is a service of

• Think IT Association was founded in 2009. Each group meets regularly in an informal, roundtable format with a different member from the group facilitating each session.

• The IT Leadership group is designed for all levels of leaders within the IT space including: IT Managers, IT Directors, and VPs of IT within the Twin Cities.

• Additional Think IT Program:

• Link to Leadership Registration for our Fall session has officially opened! • 6 month leadership development course that is designed and led by IT executives from across the metro• Benefits Genesys Works-Twin Cities alumni through the Think IT Young Professionals Scholarship fund

• While there is no cost to be a member of Think IT, it is not FREE and we do ask that members invest their

time and experience and be open to facilitating

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B2E Update

For more information, contact: Silvia Hinton at shinton@yorksolutions.netIf you are interested in participating on a panel, becoming a coach, or a mentor,

please let Anna or Rachel know!

A big thank you to the following companies who have hired our B2E students!

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Upcoming Meetings

• Wednesday, September 11nd– WIL Meeting

• Topic: Mindful Leadership

• Location: York Solutions

• Facilitator: Sarah Engstrom, CISO and IT Director of Productivity at CHS Inc.

Beth Singer, Data Protection Manager at CHS Inc.

• Friday, September 27th – Quarterly Event

• Topic: What do you want to know from the top IT Executives in the Twin Cities?

• Location: Abbott

Save the Date!

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Data as a Service Platform(DaaS)

Sayeed Reza, Product Engineering and Data Solutions at Optum

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Data as a Service (DaaS)

Data as a Service Platform (DaaS)

BIAssets

Data ScienceAssets

Microservices Applications

DatabasesSteaming File

Systems

Data Lakes

Applications

Dashboards

Provide a single and secure interface for discovering, accessing, analyzing and visualizing data regardless of data types, data platforms, data, sources and data domains

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Reference Data Platform Stack

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Warehouse vs Lake

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Challenges for Data Producer and Consumer

Challenges for Consumer

• Existence of a data source• Connection details• Documentation about intended use• Expert/SME• Process of requesting access to data source

Challenges for Producer

• Annotating data sources with descriptive metadata is often a lost effort. • Creating documentation for data sources is often a lost effort.

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Data Catalog

• Why does a company need a data catalog?>According to Forrester research, only 14% of business stakeholders make thorough use of customer insights. That’s because most companies don’t have access to their data.

• Register Data Sources• Discover Data Sources• Annotate Data Sources• Connect to Data Sources• Set up business glossary

Copyright: Microsoft Inc.

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Data as a Service(DaaS) in the Industry

DaaS

Copyright: Dremio

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DaaS Platform Reference Architecture

DaaS

API &Integration

Self-Service

Data Catalog

SQL Query Engine

Data Sources

StreamingTopics

RDBMS MPP RDBMS Data LakeNoSql/Document

DB

FilesExtraction

Analytics &Reporting

Streaming

Data Enrichment Data Virtualization Data Curation

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Tools and Technologies

for building DaaS Platform

Currently only available for Optum’sInternal customers and stakeholders

AWS GlueAzure Data Catalog

Thank you to Optum for hosting and to Sayeed for facilitating!