Digital Switch: Recent Episodes
Navid Jafari, Sonia Chopra, PeerNova
As PeerNova's official podcast, Digital Switch is a podcast about digital transformation, data quality, and data governance, with hosts Navid Jafari and Sonia Chopra. Follow us on twitter @peernovainc
In this week's episode, Sonia sits down with returning guest, Mehmet Orun (Sr. VP of Product at PeerNova), to discuss the meaning of fit-for-purpose data and why it is so critical for an organization. He shares how Cuneiform for CRM helps CRM stakeholders achieve fit-for-purpose data.
Mehmet answers the following questions:
- What does fit-for-purpose data mean? What are some examples?
- How does fit-for-purpose apply today in business?
- Why is it critical for Salesforce customers?
- What are some things Salesforce customers can do to determine if their CRM data is fit-for-purpose?
- What is Cuneiform for CRM and how is it different from other applications?
- How can customers get started?
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In this week's episode, Navid and Sonia sit down with Mehmet Orun, Sr. VP of Product at PeerNova, to announce the launch of Cuneiform for CRM, a business data quality application now available on the Salesforce AppExchange.
Mehmet answers the following questions:
- What is the largest data quality challenge that organizations face today?
- What are the current gaps in today's data quality for CRM applications?
- What is Cuneiform for CRM?
- What does it mean when data is fit-for-business purpose?
- How is it different from current data quality applications on the AppExchange?
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In this week's episode, you will join PeerNova's Founder and CEO, Gangesh Ganesan, as he keynotes at the CDAO Financial Services event. He discusses the business value of continuous data quality and how to overcome challenges with an effective data quality model.
Gangesh answers the following questions:
- What are both the short-term and long-term consequences of poor data quality?
- What does a proactive and effective data quality framework consist of?
- What are the key ingredients for a data quality model that will increase operational efficiency, meet regulatory compliance, and enable better business decisions?
- How does a financial firm implement an effective data quality tool that continuously addresses low-quality data across workflows?
Download the data quality whitepaper here: https://peernova.com/DQWP
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/DmjJ38CCIQo
In this week's episode, you will join PeerNova'sdata quality webinarfeaturing industry experts as they discuss how to achieve continuous data quality in financial institutions.
Watch the video version here.
You can read the supplemental white paper here.
Panelists:Ellen Gentile, Director of Enterprise Data Quality, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Dan Power, Managing Director of Data Governance, Global Markets, State Street
Erika Lunceford, Global Head of Solutions Engineering, PeerNova
Moderator:Navid Jafari, Global Head of Marketing and Communications, PeerNova
The panelists will answer the following questions:
- Why is a data quality strategy important for a financial services firm?
- What are the key ingredients for a data quality model that will increase operational efficiency, meet regulatory compliance, and enable better business decisions?
- How does a financial firm implement an effective data quality tool that continuously addresses low-quality data across workflows?
- How does a financial firm reinforce and measure quality to drive the change that is needed?
This week, our host sits down with Ellen Gentile, the Director of Enterprise Data Quality at SMBC, to discuss the critical need for firms to create and implement an effective data quality framework.
Ellen answers the following questions:
- How have firms previously approached data quality and what have the challenges or limitations been?
- What is some advice for firms who are looking to create or improve their current data quality framework?
- What are some of the benefits financial firms can expect to receive?
To learn more about data quality and hear more from Ellen, register for PeerNova's upcoming webinar, 'Achieving Continuous Data Quality in Financial Institutions'.
This week, our hosts kick off 2021 by highlighting PeerNova's upcoming data quality webinar and recent white paper. Hosts Sonia and Navid also touch on what it means to have continuous data quality and process correctness.
Register for the webinar: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/achieving-continuous-data-quality-in-financial-institutions-registration-132476616125
Download the whitepaper: https://peernova.com/lp/white-paper-achieving-continuous-data-quality-in-financial-institutions/
This week, our host discusses ETL and data preparation tools with Gangesh Ganesan, PeerNova's Founder and CEO. This will be part of an ongoing series deep diving into the features and benefits of the PeerNova® Cuneiform® Platform, and how it compares to other tools on the market.
Gangesh answers the following questions:
- Why are ETL and data prep tools crucial for enterprises handling mass amounts of data?
- How has the evolution of these tools helped enterprises make better business decisions?
- Do ETL and data prep tools help enterprises beyond complying with data formats and standards? Do they help with data quality and data integrity?
- How does the PeerNova Cuneiform Platform compare to an ETL or data prep tool? Is it a competitor? Do enterprises need all three?
This week, you will join PeerNova and Women in Big Data (WIBD), as they host a virtual panel discussing current data quality challenges with key industry leaders.
Panelists:Erika Lunceford, Global Head of Solutions Engineering, PeerNova
Dan Power, Managing Director of Data Governance, Global Markets, State Street
Ellen Gentile, Director of Enterprise Data Quality, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Lara Gureje, Practical Data Governance & Stewardship Activator, DatOculi
The panelists will answer the following questions:
- What are some challenges enterprises face when processing or using large volumes of data?
- What can happen when an enterprise has low-quality data?
- What is an enterprise's first step in building out a data quality strategy?
- How are decision-science programs affected when data is not well understood?
This week, our host discusses Application Performance Management (APM) tools with Gangesh Ganesan, PeerNova's Founder and CEO. This will be part of an ongoing series deep diving into the features and benefits of the PeerNova® Cuneiform® Platform, and how it compares to other tools on the market.
Gangesh answers the following questions:
- What are APM tools and how did they evolve to where they are today?
- What can happen by not effectively monitoring applications with some sort of tool?
- What are some of the challenges with current APM tools?
- How does the PeerNova Cuneiform Platform compare to an APM tool? Is it a competitor?
This week, our host discusses business intelligence (BI) tools with Gangesh Ganesan, PeerNova's Founder and CEO. This will be part of an ongoing series deep diving into the features and benefits of the PeerNova® Cuneiform® Platform, and how it compares to other tools on the market.
Gangesh answers the following questions:
- What are Business Intelligence (BI) tools?
- What challenges are BI tools trying to solve and what are some of the benefits?
- What is the connection between OLAP and BI tools?
- How have BI tools evolved from being desktop applications to full-fledged SaaS?
- Do streaming and real-time applications support BI?
- Are Kabana and Grafana BI tools?
- What BI capabilities does the Cuneiform Platform offer? How does it connect with BI tools?
This week, our hosts sit down with Perianne Boring, Founder and President of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, to discuss the organization's recent initiatives, and how the current climate has affected blockchain adoption and use cases.
Perianne answers the following questions:
- What are some of the Chamber's recent initiatives (such as Crypto for Congress)?
- How has COVID affected blockchain adoption?
- What other catalysts are needed for more acceptance of blockchain technology?
- Have there been any new, exciting blockchain use-cases that have become prominent?
This week, our host discusses why your financial institution needs an effective data quality tool to succeed with Gangesh Ganesan, PeerNova's Founder and CEO. This will be an ongoing series deep diving into the features and benefits of the PeerNova® Cuneiform® Platform, and how it compares to other tools on the market.
Gangesh answers the following questions:
- Why are data quality tools so critical for enterprises and financial institutions today?
- What are some of the benefits of an effective data quality tool?
- What are some data quality challenges financial firms experience and how do they go about solving them?
- How are reconciliations related to data quality tools?
- What is the connection between data governance and data quality tools?
- Are there specific tools that are common in the industry today?
- Is data quality a feature in integrated tools offered by major cloud and on-prem vendors?
- How does PeerNova's Cuneiform Platform ensure continuous data quality?
This week, our hosts discuss zero-code and how it can help enterprises accelerate their digital transformation efforts with Gangesh Ganesan, PeerNova's Founder and CEO.
Gangesh answers the following questions:
- What is zero-code?
- What is the relationship between zero-code and APIs?
- How does zero-code fit in with AI, ML, and digital transformation as a whole?
- What are the benefits of zero-code? What are the advantages of giving power to business users?
- Does zero-code really mean no code?
This week, our hosts discuss the connection between metadata tools and data governance with Gangesh Ganesan, PeerNova's Founder and CEO. This will be an ongoing series deep diving into the features and benefits of the solution, and how it compares to other tools on the market.
Gangesh answers the following questions:
- What is metadata?
- Why are metadata tools so popular today and what are some benefits they offer?
- What is the connection between metadata and data governance?
- What part of data governance is solved by metadata tools?
- Are metadata tools sufficient for achieving data governance?
- How does the PeerNova® Cuneiform® Platform provide data governance more effectively?
- Is Collibra really a competitor of PeerNova?
This week, our hosts discuss the importance of having an effective data governance model within financial institutions with Dan Power, the Managing Director of Data Governance for Global Markets at State Street.
Dan answers the following questions:
- What are some of the data quality challenges enterprises face when dealing with large volumes of data?
- What are the risks or bottlenecks firms face when it comes to having low quality data?
- What makes up an effective data governance model?
- What kind of benefits can firms expect from effective data governance when it comes to regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and decision-making?
This week, our hosts discuss the basics of PeerNova's Cuneiform Platform, an end-to-end automation platform, with Gangesh Ganesan, PeerNova's Founder and CEO. This will be an ongoing series deep diving into the features and benefits of the solution, and how it compares to other tools on the market.
Gangesh answers the following questions:
- How does the Cuneiform Platform empower enterprises to unlock data, improve performance, and discover new opportunities? What does it do?
- What kinds of answers and insights can the platform provide when it comes to trade validation?
- What kind of answers and insights can the platform provide for business users?
- What challenges do firms face with implementing current data quality and automation solutions and how does the Cuneiform Platform solve or avoid them?
- How does the platform compare to meta-data, APM, and BI tools?
- What makes the Cuneiform Platform unique?
This week, our host discusses why ensuring data timeliness is so crucial for enterprise success with Pravin Halady, PeerNova's Head of Product. Watch the video version of the podcast here.
Pravin answers the following questions:
- What does data timeliness entail exactly?
- What happens when a firm does not have timely data?
- How does data timeliness effect operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and decision-making?
- Why is achieving data timeliness challenging for many financial firms?
- How can effective data governance ensure data timeliness?
- As an active data governance tool, how can PeerNova's Cuneiform Platform help ensure data timeliness?
This week, our host sits down with Erika Lunceford, PeerNova's Global Head of Solutions Engineering, to discuss how implementing an effective data governance model can help enterprises make better and more informed business decisions. Watch the video version of the podcast here.
Erika offers her expertise in answering the following questions:
- What are some current organizational challenges firms face that can affect decision-making?
- How can an effective data governance model help enterprises make better business decisions?
- What are some of the gaps in the current data governance landscape?
- How can PeerNova's Cuneiform Platform, an active data governance tool, help enterprises unlock their data to make more effective and efficient business decisions?
This week, our hosts sit down with Harpal Gill and Raghu Rao, to discuss how effective data governance can help firms achieve GDPR and CCPA compliance.
Watch the video version of the podcast here.
Harpal and Raghu offer their expertise in answering the following questions:
- What is GDPR? What is CCPA? What are the differences?
- What are some of the key challenges firms face with GDPR and CCPA compliance?
- How can an effective data governance framework ensure firms meet GDPR and CCPA's regulatory requirements?
- As an active data governance and data quality tool, how can PeerNova's Cuneiform Platform help enterprises comply with these regulations?
This week, our hosts sit down with Gangesh Ganesan, PeerNova’s President and CEO, to discuss the ongoing data quality challenges faced by enterprises today.
Gangesh offers his expertise in answering the following questions:
- What makes a piece of data high quality?
- What are some of the key data quality challenges enterprises experience today?
- Why is data quality so critical for an enterprise?
- How can an effective data governance framework specifically help enterprises ensure and achieve end-to-end data quality?
This week, our host sits down with returning guest Mike Radocchio, PeerNova’s Director of Customer Success, to discuss how effective data governance can help enterprises meet MiFID II requirements.
Mike offers his expertise in answering the following questions:
- What is MiFID II?
- What are some of the key challenges financial institutions face in MiFID II compliance?
- How does an active data governance framework ensure enterprises comply with MiFID II?
- As an active data governance tool, how can PeerNova’s Cuneiform Platformhelp enterprises comply with MiFID II? What is unique about the solution?
This week, our hosts sit down with returning guest Raghu Rao, PeerNova’s VP of Business Development, to discuss how effective data governance can help enterprises solve CCAR compliance challenges.
Raghu offers his expertise in answering the following questions:
- What is CCAR (Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review)?
- What are some of the key challenges financial institutions face in CCAR compliance?
- How does an effective data governance framework ensure enterprises comply with CCAR?
- As an active data governance tool, how can PeerNova’s Cuneiform Platformhelp enterprises comply with CCAR? What is unique about the solution?
This week, our hosts sit down with returning guest Harpal Gill, PeerNova’s Director of Business Development in Europe, to discuss the importance of effective data governance for BCBS 239 compliance.
Harpal offers his expertise in answering the following questions:
- Prior to the 2008/2009 crash, what was missing in terms of regulation?
- What exactly is BCBS 239 (Basel Committee for Banking Supervision Standard 239)?
- What are some of the key challenges financial institutions face in BCBS 239 compliance?
- How does an effective data governance framework ensure enterprises comply with BCBS 239?
- As an active data governance tool, how can PeerNova’s Cuneiform Platformhelp enterprises comply with BCBS 239?
This week, our hosts sit down with returning guest Pravin Halady, PeerNova’s Head of Product, to discuss the differences between an active and passive data governance model.
Pravin offers his expertise in answering the following questions:
- What are the differences between active and passive data governance?
- What are the benefits of having an active data governance model?
- Why do some enterprises still utilize a passive approach?
- As an active data governance tool, what is unique about PeerNova’s Cuneiform Platform?
- What are the next steps in implementing a more effective data governance model?
This week, our hosts sit down with Pravin Halady, PeerNova's Head of Product, to discuss the increasing importance of an effective data governance model.
Pravin offers his expertise in answering a few key questions:
- What is data governance?
- What are the differences between active and passive data governance?
- What are key challenges in implementing an effective data governance model?
- As an active data governance tool, what is unique about PeerNova's Cuneiform Platform?
This week, Navid and Sonia sit down to discuss PeerNova's positioning, and how the Cuneiform Platform enables financial institutions to quickly optimize their data, process, and business.
During this episode, you will discover how the platform provides operational business management through data quality and process integrity, helping clients gain insights, perform better, and discover possibilities.
This week, we are sitting down with Harpal Gill, PeerNova's Director of Business Development in Europe to discuss operational inefficiencies and challenges within a financial institution. During this episode, we analyze how institutions can strategically position themselves to optimize their data and processes to make better business decisions.
Harpal offers his expertise in answering a few key questions:
- What are some of the key challenges financial institutions face when it comes to current operational inefficiencies (such as exception management)?
- What are the steps to solving some of these inefficiencies?
- What is the 80/20 rule and how does it apply to a financial institution's data quality?
- How can PeerNova's Cuneiform Platform, an operational business management tool, help both front and back offices cut costs, optimize processes, and make better business decisions?
This week, we are kicking off 2020 by chatting with Erika Lunceford, PeerNova's Global Head of Solutions Engineering, to break down and discuss the benefits, challenges, and opportunities in digital transformation.
During this episode, we will analyze the key components of digital transformation in the financial industry; people, process, and technology.
Erika offers her expertise in answering a few key questions:
- Why is digital transformation so important for financial institutions?
- Why is it difficult to successfully implement a digital transformation strategy?
- How should a financial institution begin the process?
This week, Navid and Sonia wrap up the year with exciting news. Chain in the Valley is making the switch to Digital Switch (pun fully intended)!!! This episode features a quick overview of what PeerNova has been up to, including the recent funding announcement, as well as a look forward into 2020.
This week, PeerNova and TiE Silicon Valley hosted the 'Building Trust & Transparency By Leveraging Blockchain' event in Santa Clara, CA. This episode features the fireside chat between PeerNova's President and CEO, Gangesh Ganesan, and PeerNova's Director of Marketing, Navid Jafari, as they discuss digital transformation within the financial industry.
This week, we are excited to sit down with Soheil Mazaheri, PeerNova's Principal Security Engineer, to discuss the high-level security landscape, AAA (no not for your car), and the differentiations between key security terms.
This week, we are excited to sit down with Gangesh Ganesan, PeerNova's President and CEO, to pick his brain about his blockchain journey, recent industry news, PeerNova's future, and more!
This week, we are excited to sit down with Raghu Rao, PeerNova's VP of Business Development, to discuss some of the most prevalent problems in the financial industry, and how blockchain-based solutions (like the Cuneiform Platform) can solve them.
This week, we are excited to sit down with one of PeerNova's Product Managers (and resident blockchain and DLT expert), Murat Akdeniz, to discuss Hyperledger and his experience at Hyperledger's Member Summit in Tokyo last month.
On July 18th, PeerNova took part in the 3rd Blockchain Education Day in Capitol Hill in collaboration with the Chamber of Digital Commerce. We met with policymakers and discussed blockchain technology and a few blockchain use cases in order to better highlight the benefits of the technology.
https://peernova.com/2019/07/15/peernova-to-participate-in-the-chamber-of-digital-commerces-congressional-blockchain-education-day/
On this episode, Sonia sits down with one of PeerNova's summer interns, Ashwin Rajan to talk about encryption. Ashwin has written a great paper which can be found here: https://www.overleaf.com/read/dwhptxgsbgzt
Back in May, we released an episode focused on Synchronize NYC (an event that we had attended). In that (much longer) episode, we sat down with three people. We've decided to re-release those conversations in one section at a time. In this episode, we sit down with Marley Gray, Principal Architect - Azure Blockchain at Microsoft.
This week we are lucky to chat with Suresh Kumar, another esteemed board member at PeerNova. As a business leader with decades of deep experience in the financial industry, technology, and where the two meet, Suresh has a unique perspective on how CIO's and business leaders in the financial industries can incorporate blockchain into their business strategy today - without the need to wait for the technology or its adoption to grow.
In this episode, we are delighted to sit down with one of the most influential thought leaders in the blockchain space. Jonathan Johnson is the president of Medici Ventures and sits on the board of many blockchain companies - including PeerNova. We ask him about what blockchain use cases he sees having the most potential and what he thinks makes a successful blockchain venture.
This week, we are delighted to sit down with the founder and president of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, Perianne Boring. The Chamber is active on many blockchain fronts but we wanted to learn a little more about some of their key initiatives. PeerNova is a proud member of the Chamber of Digital Commerce.
This week, we are delighted to have PeerNova's data product strategist, David Levine on our show. The concept goes by many names: Golden Source, Single Source of Truth, or Golden Data. David will explain how it all works and why the Cuneiform Platform is uniquely able to create this single source of truth.
Please see David's blog on the topic here: https://medium.com/peernova/what-is-the-cost-of-relying-on-data-that-is-only-probably-right-7051668c166d
This week's podcast is different. We thought we mix things up and make an entire episode around our attendance at the Synchronize 2019 event in New York City. This was a great event for many reasons but we are particularly grateful to both Microsoft and Hyperledger for sitting down with us for this episode.
This week we are talking Event Lineage with Mike Radocchio, PeerNova's Director of Customer Success. Cuneiform's Event Lineage is a real-time consolidated view of a transaction, position, or onboarding lifecycle status in one place - eliminating the need to hunt through a multitude of legacy applications for answers. You can read Mike's blog on the topic here: https://medium.com/peernova/knowledge-wisdom-and-event-lineage-1993a2db9092
This week we are delighted to have Pravin Halady, PeerNova's Head of Product join the podcast. We are talking about internal friction points vs. external friction points at and in-between financial institutions, respectively. Tune in to find out why we think fixing the friction inside out is the only way this makes sense.
We are very excited to have Mark Jennis, PeerNova's Global Head of Customer Engagement join us on our podcast today. Reconciliation is a big challenge for financial institutions but our Cuneiform Platform is uniquely positioned to solve some of the associated challenges. You can find Mark's blog on this topic at https://medium.com/peernova/https-medium-com-peernova-reconciliations-new-paradigms-for-an-old-problem-ef9f4a73fbb6-36db154f9e5c
Marketing and messaging around blockchain technology can sound unrealistic at times. Are the skeptics right? Learn how we approach it.
PeerNova is building frictionless financial markets through trust and transparency. In this episode we will deconstruct what these friction points are and how PeerNova's Cuneiform Platform is going about solving these challenges. Special guest, Varsha B., PeerNova's Product Marketing Manager joins us.
Introducing Chain in the Valley podcast and hosts, Sonia and Navid. Chain in the Valley is a podcast about all things blockchain and DLT - brought to you by PeerNova.
Navid is the Director of Marketing at PeerNova, and Sonia is the Sr. Marketing Coordinator.