I think you'd get a kick out of and draw parallels from DHH's piece here, which is a rant on the 'circus empire' around Kubernetes and dev tools world.
At the end of the day, the MDS reduces friction in data development, but nothing really helps address the fundamental issues. For one, analytics value is extraordinarily hard to measure, and most places aren't doing any kind of attribution modeling to capture revenue / cost savings. And two, the business frequently asks for assets that don't align with their actual goals. Because analytics is "accessible" (anyone can pick up a spreadsheet), we frequently see requirements sessions where otherwise very smart business people make very silly / bad requests because they attempt to translate a domain they understand well into one they don't (data and analytics).
There aren't many of these co's out there but constellation has built an amazing business doing just this, the berkshire of software - https://www.csisoftware.com/
I think you'd get a kick out of and draw parallels from DHH's piece here, which is a rant on the 'circus empire' around Kubernetes and dev tools world.
https://world.hey.com/dhh/they-re-rebuilding-the-death-star-of-complexity-4fb5d08d
always an entertaining take on the data community with johnoliveresque delivery.
At the end of the day, the MDS reduces friction in data development, but nothing really helps address the fundamental issues. For one, analytics value is extraordinarily hard to measure, and most places aren't doing any kind of attribution modeling to capture revenue / cost savings. And two, the business frequently asks for assets that don't align with their actual goals. Because analytics is "accessible" (anyone can pick up a spreadsheet), we frequently see requirements sessions where otherwise very smart business people make very silly / bad requests because they attempt to translate a domain they understand well into one they don't (data and analytics).
Our tooling ain't bad. Our processes suck.
There aren't many of these co's out there but constellation has built an amazing business doing just this, the berkshire of software - https://www.csisoftware.com/
The wordplay and delivery of this piece was masterful. Refreshing lens on the upcoming consolidation of services.