This blog has taken much longer to write than I had expected. Everyone in my circles who read an initial version had a different take on what a data product is. If data products were to be successful, I feel, it is essential we have a clear and an unambiguous…

If you are passionate, you will never work another day. — Ikigai In 2022, SanjMo completed its first full year as an independent analyst advisory firm. Being an entrepreneur late in my career makes me feel my time is limited, and hence there is a natural urgency to make every…

I have attended and spoken at various Oracle user conferences since the 1990s. Every few years, Oracle shakes things up and the conference name evolves. The 2022 event also saw Oracle rename its conference from OpenWorld to CloudWorld. …

Data observability has been a hot topic for the past few years in the data space. Several recent blogs have explained why this capability is critical to the success of modern data and analytics solutions, which increasingly comprise a complicated collection of disparate tools in a hybrid multi-cloud environment. With…

Thank you, my esteemed readers, for your support in my first year of being an independent analyst. It has been a pivotal year filled with lots of success and discovery. This is only my second newsletter since I started the company in July 2021. I started the year without knowing…

Ten Frequent Questions Why can’t my existing observability tool provide me with data observability? Why do I have to buy a tool? Can my data store or cloud vendors not build it? Why can’t I build it? How is data observability different from data quality? What should be the scope…

Two decades ago, if someone had questioned the need for application performance monitoring (APM) to perform deep analysis of metrics, traces, and logs, they would be eating their words today. Today, the APM (and the log management) industry is thriving with a cadre of high-profile vendors. As the enterprise technology…

Data mesh has attracted intense attention because of its promise to deliver faster analytics in an agile and decentralized manner. It puts the responsibility for data quality and curation on data producers and owners within business “domains,” who understand the data the best. They package the data for consumption as…