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Enterprise Wide Search
by Actian
You’re listening to Enterprise Wide Search — powered by Actian.Hosted by Ole Olesen-Bagneux, Chief Evangelist at Actian, and now joined by Emma McGrattan, Actian’s CTO and global data leader, this show explores the often-overlooked challenge at the heart of modern enterprises: finding and making sense of data.Why is it still so hard to search across systems and uncover the data you need to do your job? Ole is obsessed with that question — and together with Emma, he speaks with authors, software inventors, data architects, industry leaders, and academics about the tools, processes, and ideas shaping the future of enterprise data search.From metadata to data intelligence, governance to AI-powered discovery — Enterprise Wide Search is your guide to navigating enterprise data's wild, tangled world.Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
Episodes
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Enterprise Wide Search 41: Dia Adams - Inside the US AI Policy Challenge
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Dia Adams, Chief Data & AI Officer, former Principal Data Consultant at the White House, and Board Chair of The AI Table, to explore how AI policy is evolving in the United States and what it means for enterprises....
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Enterprise Wide Search 40: Vanessa Andersson - AI Through the Eyes of a Data Engineer
In this episode, Ole Olesen-Bagneux sits down with Vanessa Andersson, Senior Data Engineer and founder of Data & AI Stockholm, to explore what the rapid evolution of AI looks like from the perspective of a practitioner working directly with it. With a background that spans marketing, management,...
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Enterprise Wide Search 39: Ben Mathew - Why AI Won’t Replace Business Intelligence
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Ben Mathew, General Manager of Business Intelligence at Actian and former GM of Jaspersoft, to explore how business intelligence is evolving in the age of AI. With more than 20 years in enterprise software and two…
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Enterprise Wide Search 38: Mariana Hebborn - Enterprise AI in Practice in Pharma
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Mariana Hebborn, Global Head of HR AI & Data Governance at Merck, to explore what it really takes to move AI from experimentation into the enterprise. With a background in computational linguistics and semantics…
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Enterprise Wide Search 37: Lulit T, Joe H & Zach W - Why AI Needs Enterprise Semantics
In this episode, Ole Olesen-Bagneux sits down with Lulit Tesfaye, Joseph Hilger, and Zach Wahl from Enterprise Knowledge to explore why the future of enterprise AI depends on connecting knowledge, data, and semantics. Drawing from their new book, Bridging Knowledge, Data, and AI, they explain why...
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Enterprise Wide Search 36: Xavier Gumara Rigol - When Data Becomes a Product Driver
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Xavier Gumara Rigol, author of Data as a Product Driver and Head of Data at Manychat, to explore what happens when data moves beyond reporting and becomes part of how product teams make decisions. Drawing on more than…
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Enterprise Wide Search 35: Samuel Bitrus - The Catalog of Catalogs
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Samuel Bitrus, Data Quality and Governance Manager at Lufthansa Group, to explore the evolving role of data catalogs in large, complex enterprises. Drawing from his work across governance, metadata, and trust, Samuel...
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Enterprise Wide Search 34: Sune Selsbæk-Reitz - Promptism and the Fight for Meaning
In this episode, Ole Olesen-Bagneux sits down with Sune Selsbæk-Reitz, Data & AI Strategist at Demant and author of Promptism, for a conversation on how generative AI is reshaping the way humans interact with knowledge, meaning, and decision-making. Drawing from his background in data strategy,...
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Enterprise Wide Search 33: Carsten Bange - The Analyst View: Data Culture Matters More Than Ever
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Carsten Bange, founder and CEO of BARC, one of Europe’s leading analyst firms focused on data, analytics, and AI. With more than 25 years advising enterprises on data strategy, analytics platforms, and organizational...
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Enterprise Wide Search 32: Kierra Dotson - AI Changes Everything… Except the Fundamentals
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Kierra Dotson, Associate Director of Data Science & AI Strategy at Further, keynote speaker, and thought leader known for helping enterprise leaders build AI strategies that actually deliver value. Working at the...
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Enterprise Wide Search 31: Ashleigh Faith - Making AI Understand What It Says
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Ashleigh Faith, Director of AI and Semantic Innovation at EBSCO and creator of the IsA DataThing YouTube channel, to explore why knowledge graphs and ontologies are becoming essential in the age of AI. From her early…
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Enterprise Wide Search 30: Juha Korpela - The Rise of Semantic Data Work
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Juha Korpela, independent consultant and co-founder of Helsinki Data Week, to explore why semantics is rapidly becoming a core pillar of modern data work. Drawing on his experience in data modeling, metadata management,...
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Enterprise Wide Search 29: Bjørn Broum - Data That Saves Lives
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Bjørn Broum, Director of Business Development for Technology, Architecture, and Data at the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA), to explore how data strategy works inside one of Norway’s largest public...
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Enterprise Wide Search 28: Amra Dorjbayar - Designing the Agentic Enterprise
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Amra Dorjbayar, former co-founder and CEO of Wobby (recently acquired by Actian), to unpack what Agentic BI really means and why the next wave of analytics won’t look like dashboards, reports, or even chatbots. Amra...
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Enterprise Wide Search 27: Malcolm Hawker - The Data Hero Mindset and Why “Best Practices” Don’t Work
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Malcolm Hawker, Chief Data Officer at Profisee and author of The Data Hero Playbook, for a conversation about why so many data programs stall, even when teams follow the “right” playbook. Drawing on years of…
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Enterprise Wide Search 26: Ruud Kuil - The Exact ROI of Data Quality
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Ruud Kuil, longtime data quality expert and now co-founder of MAD-Quality, to discuss what really breaks in organizations when data is wrong and why fixing it requires rethinking both tooling and incentives. After 15+...
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Enterprise Wide Search 25: Frédéric Verhelst - From Data Chaos to Meaning: The Rise of Ontologies in AI
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Frédéric Verhelst — a leading voice in semantic technologies and agentic AI, and longtime semantic web advocate — for a practical dive into ontologies, knowledge graphs, and why they matter more than ever in an AI-first...
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Enterprise Wide Search 24: Mario Meir-Huber - Designing Data Products That Don’t Break on Honeymoon
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Mario Meir-Huber — author of Designing Data Products and longtime data leader — to talk about what happens when you stop treating data like a one-time project and start managing it as a product that evolves. Mario…
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Enterprise Wide Search 23: Jovita Tam - The Lawyer Who Gets Data, AI, and Culture
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Jovita Tam, a business-focused data and AI advisor and attorney, about the hard truths of AI, governance, and organizational change. Known for connecting legal, technical, and cultural perspectives, Jovita shares what…
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Enterprise Wide Search 22: Gaëlle Seret - Domains First: Rethinking Data Through Business Boundaries
In this episode, Ole Olesen-Bagneux is joined by Gaëlle Seret, product leader, writer, and enabler of data transformations at scale. Known for her clear-eyed writing on Substack, Gaëlle brings a mix of operational pragmatism and strategic depth to the question of what it really takes to build...
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Enterprise Wide Search 21: Frédéric Robert - Will MCP Kill the Data Marketplace?
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Frédéric Robert, Innovation and Data Advisory Director at Apgar, to unpack one of the most intriguing questions circulating in the data community: what happens to the data marketplace now that MCP (Model Context…
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Enterprise Wide Search 20: Julia Diez - Data & AI with Cultural Context
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Julia Diez, Localization Software Engineer at McAfee and the author behind one of the most quietly brilliant Substacks in tech today. Trained as a linguist and now working at the intersection of metadata, multilingual...
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Enterprise Wide Search 19: Lukas Plaehn - Trust, Tech, and the Data Dilemma in Finance
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Lukas Plaehn, Head of Data Office at Bank of Valletta, to explore what makes data so hard to manage in financial institutions—and why that challenge goes deeper than technology. From Malta’s sun-soaked shores to the...
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Enterprise Wide Search 18: Jean-Georges Perrin - This is Not a Data Product
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Jean-Georges Perrin—better known as JGP—to discuss the future of data products, the limitations of BI, and the importance of federated thinking in an era of real-time everything. From his early days self-publishing a...
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Enterprise Wide Search 17: Rachael Greaves - Governance at Scale: Records, Risk, and the Ethics of AI
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Rachael Greaves, CEO of Castlepoint Systems and pioneer of regulation-as-code AI, to unpack why records and information management are more relevant—and more technical—than ever. Together, they explore: The sometimes...
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Enterprise Wide Search 16: Thais Cooke - Beyond the Prompt: Curiosity-Driven Analytics
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Thais Cooke, Senior Healthcare Data Analyst and LinkedIn Learning instructor, to discuss what happens when curiosity meets chaos—and how a career shift from frontline healthcare to data analytics has unlocked new ways…
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Enterprise Wide Search 15: Jérémy Ravenel - Ontologies, Flywheels, and the AI-Ready Enterprise
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Jérémy Ravenel, researcher, advisor, and founder of the open-source NaasAI platform. Known for bridging the gap between theory and execution, Jérémy shares his journey from Excel-heavy finance roles to leading...
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Enterprise Wide Search 14: Shweta Shah - The Missing Management Layer in AI: Content Quality
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Dr. Shweta Shah, a seasoned data and AI architect with a fresh perspective on how we think about quality in the age of unstructured data and GenAI. Shweta introduces “Content Quality Management” (CQM), a new framework...
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Enterprise Wide Search 13: Dylan Anderson - Making Data Strategies Actually Work
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Dylan Anderson, Head of Data Strategy at Profusion and author of The Data Ecosystem newsletter. Dylan brings a pragmatic, field-tested perspective on how to bridge the gap between strategy and implementation—and why…
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Enterprise Wide Search 12: Sofia Zapounidou - Metadata, Meaning and the Machine
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux welcome Sofia Zapounidou, Team Lead at the Publications Office of the European Commission and a lifelong champion of metadata, identifiers, and meaning in a machine-readable world. Drawing on her background in library and information...
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Enterprise Wide Search 11: Tim Wiegels - Data Stacks, Not Science Projects
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Tim Wiegels, Executive Data Advisor and former VP of Data at FreeNow. Known for his brutally honest and refreshingly pragmatic take on building data teams, stacks, and cultures, Tim shares lessons from a career spanning...
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Enterprise Wide Search 10: Nagim Ashufta - The Human Layer of Data
In this episode, co-hosts Ole Olesen-Bagneux and Emma McGrattan sit down with Nagim Ashufta, founder of DRIVA and one of the most philosophical voices in the data world today. Known for weaving together history, human nature, and the hard realities of data work, Nagim brings a rare and…
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Enterprise Wide Search 09: Andrew Jones - The Power of Data Contracts
In this episode, co-hosts Ole Olesen-Bagneux and Emma McGrattan sit down with Andrew Jones, Principal Engineer and author of Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts (Packt Publishing). Widely credited with coining the term “data contract,” Andrew walks us through how a deceptively simple idea...
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Enterprise Wide Search 08: Emma McGrattan - Origins of a Data Leader (and Your New Co-Host)
In this special episode, Ole Olesen-Bagneux welcomes Emma McGrattan, Actian’s CTO, as the new co-host of Enterprise Wide Search. Emma shares her journey from coding her first game at age 12 to leading global data innovation at Actian for over three decades. Together, they explore: Emma’s early...
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Enterprise Wide Search 07: Anna Ibrahim - The Meta Grid is already there
I talked to Chief Data Architect, dr. Anna Ibrahim on Episode 07 - and this conversation marks a new direction for my podcast, as I will talk more concretely about the Meta Grid in the episodes going forward. As you will hear, Anna has deep technical understanding and - just as important -...
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Enterprise Wide Search 06: Solomon Kahn - The Reverse CDP
Episode 06 is out! I spoke to Solomon Kahn that is the CEO of Delivery Layer and co-founder of Top Data People. We spoke about both companies, however my key interest in reaching out to Solomon is Delivery Layer. It's sort of a reverse Customer Data Platform (CDP) and I think that's surprising…
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Enterprise Wide Search 05: Manuel Pais & Eduardo da Silva - Team Topologies in Practice
Episode 05 is out! What does Team Topologies look like in practice? This cool, flexible organizational setup that enables fast flow for IT? Usually data scientists realize they need data engineers... But in this amazing use case, we discuss the opposite: Data engineers becoming data scientists...
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The Meta Grid Notes: To Scott Taylor - my data story about the meta grid
To Scott Taylor - my data story about the Meta Grid The preface of my book Fundamentals of Metadata Management Scott Taylor asked me to send my data story on the Meta Grid, so he could comment on it, and - I’m thankful Scott! Here it is: The following is the current preface of my book…
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Enterprise Wide Search 04: Martin Sahlen - The Metadata Warehouse
Episode 04 is out! What is the Metadata Warehouse? Martin Sahlen is on a mission to make data teams data driven. And if there is one thing I have seen in my career, it's data teams working in the dark, with no KPIs of their activities - very little search features on themselves - a total paradox!...
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The Meta Grid Notes: The Definition of Metadata
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Enterprise Wide Search 03: Pragyan Nayak - Cool Use Cases for Data Science
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The Meta Grid Notes: Thank you Helsinki Data Week
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Enterprise Wide Search 02: Sol Rashidi - Surviving AI
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Enterprise Wide Search 01: Scott Taylor - Data is the New BS
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A Word from our Sponsor: Alvin
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Welcome to Enterprise Wide Search
You are listening to the Enterprise Wide Search. My name is Ole Olesen-Bagneux, I am obsessed with search and I cannot understand why searching in a company is often so difficult. So, on this show I talk to authors, software inventors, industry leaders, consultants and academics and let them...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
You’re listening to Enterprise Wide Search — powered by Actian.Hosted by Ole Olesen-Bagneux, Chief Evangelist at Actian, and now joined by Emma McGrattan, Actian’s CTO and global data leader, this show explores the often-overlooked challenge at the heart of modern enterprises: finding and making sense of data.Why is it still so hard to search across systems and uncover the data you need to do your job? Ole is obsessed with that question — and together with Emma, he speaks with authors, software inventors, data architects, industry leaders, and academics about the tools, processes, and ideas shaping the future of enterprise data search.From metadata to data intelligence, governance to AI-powered discovery — Enterprise Wide Search is your guide to navigating enterprise data's wild, tangled world.Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
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