Dot Group’s Managing Director Simon Parkinson recently spoke with IBM’s Jason Foss, Program Director for Product Management at watsonx.data integration, about the critical challenges facing organisations today: tool proliferation, mounting technical debt, and the ever-elusive promise of data democratisation.
“Most customers we see have ended up with multiple ERPs, ETL tools, databases, BI platforms – and yet, they still have the same ambition of trying to get enterprise insights,” Simon explains in the piece. “Many companies struggle to piece together a step-by-step roadmap to dig themselves out of this cycle.”
The article explores how IBM watsonx.data integration offers a practical solution to these challenges, providing a unified control plane that handles batch processing, real-time streaming, data replication, and observability from a single interface.
Simon highlights a key insight: “Tool proliferation is the key here – customers are looking for one tool that interoperates well, with simple licence models, all in one marketplace. IBM watsonx.data integration genuinely feels like customers will be able to start with any singular use case and branch out as needed.”
Perhaps most importantly, the discussion addresses how many organisations remain stuck in the AI experiment phase due to foundational data quality issues. “Before they can move to the next phase of AI maturity, they have to first fix their data,” Simon notes.
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