Slickdeals, a leading online community for deal-sharing and reviews, has over 12 million users each year. This results in massive amounts of customer data that is used for business-critical decision-making - both a boon and a challenge for the data analytics team.

Join Slickdeals Data & Analytics Director, Greg Mabrito, to learn how he is building a cloud data platform to extract maximum value from their data by making it analysis-ready for business stakeholders, ensuring that key decisions can be made quickly and intelligently.

Greg discusses:

• His experience adopting the Snowflake Data Platform and replacing legacy workloads on SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS).
• How his data modernization initiative is able to meet new business requirements including dimensional analysis, access to 8 years’ worth of data, and the ability to quickly add new datasets.
• How decisions about transformative data architecture and a cloud data platform enable control of costs in the cloud.

Dave Mariani, Chief Technology Officer at AtScale, explains technical details to demonstrate:

• How data and analytics leaders are able to support the demands of business stakeholders.
• How using a universal semantic layer to virtualize data leads to improved innovation cycles across data consumption use cases.
• How data-driven organizations can increase what’s possible with their existing analytics and business intelligence (BI) stack.