Jan Meskens

Best Quotes

“Data Management at Scale from Piethein Strengholt, who's working at Microsoft. And that's actually a real good book to explain everything around data, defining clearly what is data, why should you start with data, which systems exists, what is data governance.”

Transcript of Bridging Data between OT and IT: A Conversation on Data Management with Jan Meskens

“In a lot of companies, you have different corners... in all those corners, people are doing things with data. But there is not necessarily one thing that connects all those initiatives. There's no plan behind it. There's no governance behind it.”

Transcript of Bridging Data between OT and IT: A Conversation on Data Management with Jan Meskens

“The most important characteristics of a data product, first of all, that's ownership... If you don't take ownership of your data products, then at a certain moment they will stop working or become irrelevant.”

Transcript of Bridging Data between OT and IT: A Conversation on Data Management with Jan Meskens

“The data product is actually making your data or part of data reusable as information... your raw data, you're going to make it trustworthy, reusable as a product, then it can be used by others.”

Transcript of Bridging Data between OT and IT: A Conversation on Data Management with Jan Meskens

“The strength of engineers is that they are quite skilled in doing those analyses themselves. So if you can provide the right tools to engineers, then it should be possible for them to do the analyses by themselves instead of using typical data analysts for this.”

Transcript of Bridging Data between OT and IT: A Conversation on Data Management with Jan Meskens