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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.
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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, programming, and data engineering, Vanessa brings a grounded perspective to an industry moving at extraordinary speed. As organizations move beyond their first AI experiments, she sees the conversation shifting from what AI can do to harder questions around reliability, governance, responsible use, and how the roles of data professionals themselves are changing.
Together, they explore:
Why organizations are moving from asking “can we build it?” to “can we make it useful and reliable?”
What the rise of AI agents means for data engineers and other data professionals
Why predictions about AI replacing entire professions may overlook how work actually evolves
How organizations can embrace AI without ignoring bias, privacy, security, and responsible use
Why practitioners need spaces to discuss real-world challenges without the sales pitch
They also discuss Stockholm's growing data and AI ecosystem, why sharing challenges can be as valuable as showcasing successes, and what it takes to protect a practitioner community's independence as it grows.
🎧 Tune in for a conversation on how data work is changing in practice and the value of communities where practitioners can learn from one another.
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18 Sept 2026
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 decades of experience in the BI space, Ben looks back at how business intelligence evolved from static reporting to analytics. And why, despite decades of investment, the promise of truly self-service BI has remained largely unfulfilled.
Together, they explore:
How BI evolved from hindsight to insight, and increasingly, foresight
Why self-service BI has struggled to deliver on its original promise
How natural language and AI could finally make analytics accessible to a much broader audience
Why probabilistic AI cannot replace the deterministic outputs enterprises still need
How governance, trust, and auditability will shape the next generation of business intelligence
Ben also shares the story of Jaspersoft, from its open-source beginnings 25 years ago to its recent acquisition by Actian, and explains why he believes AI won't make BI smaller: it will make it more foundational.
🎧 Tune in for a conversation on the evolution of business intelligence, the impact of AI on analytics, and why the future may be less about replacing BI than finally delivering on its original promise.
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4 Sept 2026
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, Mariana has spent her career at the intersection of data, technology, and business. Today, she is applying that experience to one of the most sensitive and consequential areas of enterprise data: HR, where, as she puts it, the data describes someone.
Together, they explore:
Why enterprise AI requires more than access to powerful models
The difference between everyday AI and enterprise AI (and why adoption looks very different for each)
How Merck is using AI agents to simplify complex HR processes
Why data quality, governance, privacy, and security need to evolve alongside AI
How organizations can give employees room to experiment with AI without losing control
Why transparency can help organizations move faster with sensitive data
They also discuss why AI is becoming a business capability rather than simply a technology, the challenge of governing a growing ecosystem of employee-created agents, and why understanding the value of enterprise data remains as important as ever.
🎧 Tune in for a practitioner-led conversation on moving beyond AI experimentation and building enterprise AI that people can actually use, trust, and govern.
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