The Importance of Self Service BI with 5xData

Building the Backend: Data Solutions that Power Leading Organizations

In this episode, we speak with Tarush Aggarwal. Tarush is the founder of 5xdata, where he helps companies build a strong data foundation with self-service BI to enable the business. Prior to starting 5xData he was one of the first data engineers on the analytics team Salesforce and helped scale the data team WeWork from 5 to 100+.

Top 3 Value Bombs:

1. Ingest all your raw data into a central location and build your data models on top of that.
2. When organizations are first building out a data platform, the first item they should focus on is building out a self-service BI tool.
3. The use case for data lakes may be on the decline with the ability to separate storage and compute within data warehouses