The Ravit Show

Synthetic data is everywhere in AI conversations!!!! But what does it actually solve? I had an amazing conversation with Michael Eckhoff on The Ravit Show at Gartner he brought this down to reality. We spoke about when synthetic data makes more sense than masking or subsetting production data. It shines when: • Compliance makes moving production data into lower environments a bottleneck • Teams ne...

I had a blast at Gartner last week, here's my discussion with Hod Rotem from K2view on The Ravit Show, diving into one of the most important topics right now. What does AI-ready data architecture actually look like when it is running in production? We will break down: * How real-time, entity-level data gets assembled across dozens of systems * What it takes to support thousands of AI agents workin...

Mainframes. Synthetic data. AI-ready foundations. This was one of the most practical conversations we had at Gartner on The Ravit Show. I sat down with Ronen Schwartz, CEO at K2view and Michael Curry, President, Data Modernization, Rocket Software to talk about their partnership and why it matters right now. Here is the reality. A lot of enterprise data still lives in mainframes and core systems o...

Five years advising CDAOs at Gartner D&A. Now in the field helping enterprises actually implement AI and governance. That shift gives Austin Kronz, Head of AI & Data Strategy, Atlan, a rare lens. And this conversation was honest. We talked about the gap between what we say on stage at big events and what really happens inside companies once everyone flies home. Here is what we unpacked: •...

Your AI has a context problem. It’s not the model. It’s context!!!! That was the mic drop from Prukalpa, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Atlan on The Ravit Show when we kicked off this conversation. And honestly, it set the tone for everything that followed. We spoke about why so many AI projects stall. Not because the model is weak. Not because the team is not smart. But because the data lacks shared me...

"On-prem is the new cloud.” That statement is not just a headline. It reflects what many enterprises are quietly experiencing. I sat down with David Dichmann, VP Product Marketing and Evangelism, Cloudera, to unpack what is really driving this shift and how Cloudera’s Cloud Anywhere vision fits into the bigger picture. Here is what we discussed: -- Why rising cloud costs, data gravity, and regulat...

The mainframe is not going anywhere. It is evolving. I just wrapped up a powerful conversation with Matt Whitbourne, VP of Product Management & Design for the BMC Software AMI portfolio. We spoke about something many enterprises are quietly navigating right now: How do you modernize the mainframe without breaking what already works? Here’s what stood out to me from our discussion: * Modernizat...

Observability is no longer just about dashboards. It is about systems that can act. I caught up with Brian Emerson, Chief Product Officer at New Relic, at Advance 2026, and one thing was clear. Brian shared a bold view of where software is headed. More applications will be built in the next five years than in the last fifty. That creates a scale problem no team can solve manually. His answer is in...

At New Relic Advance 2026 in San Francisco, one theme was impossible to miss. Observability is no longer just about seeing problems. It’s about fixing them. I caught up with Ashan Willy, CEO of New Relic, to talk about what this shift really means for customers. The biggest highlight was the launch of their SRE Agent and the broader move toward an agentic platform. What stood out in our conversati...

Everyone is talking about AI agents. But very few conversations are grounded in real data. Databricks just released their new State of AI Agents report, and it gives a clear picture of how enterprises are actually using AI today, what is working, and where things are headed next. I sat down with Kunal Marwah, Mason Force, and Chengyin Eng from Databricks to break down what stood out to them from t...

What if AI is not just powered by master data… but actually improves it? At the DataDriven Conference, Ravit Jain sat down with Anjan Roy from Deloitte, who leads the global life sciences MDM practice, to talk about the real relationship between AI and Master Data Management. One line from our conversation stayed with me: AI supports MDM and MDM supports AI. Most companies talk about preparing dat...

LLMs can accelerate everything. But without context, they accelerate you in the wrong direction. At DataDriven Conference 2026 by Reltio, Ravit Jain had a powerful conversation with Satish Mallavolu, CEO of Blumetra Solutions, about the end-to-end data life cycle and what it really means to monetize data. One message came through clearly. Master data is not optional. It is the glue that holds the...

MDM is back. And this time, it is tied directly to AI outcomes. At DataDriven Conference 2026 by Reltio, I had a great conversation with Avinash (Avi) Deshpande, Field CTO at Workato, about how integration, MDM, and agentic workflows are coming together. One thing was clear. MDM is no longer a back-office data discipline. It is becoming the context engine for AI. Workato plays a critical role in t...

Reltio crossed $185M in ARR and saw 58% growth in the second half of the year. That kind of acceleration in an enterprise platform signals strong market pull. At the DataDriven Conference 2026, I sat down with Alyson Welch, CRO of Reltio, to talk about what customers are actually asking for in the age of AI. Alyson owns the full customer journey, from acquisition to support, and also leads the par...

What happens when AI is applied to real mission problems, not just demos? At Data Driven 2026, I sat down with Lisa Wolff from ForeSite360 to talk about how they are using AI, together with Reltio, to solve complex challenges in highly regulated environments like the federal government. One example stood out immediately. A deployment of their platform, Foresight 360, built on top of Reltio, has al...

Everyone talks about AI agents. Very few talk about what they actually change inside enterprises. At the DataDriven Conference, Ravit Jain sat down with Rajeev Krishnan from PwC to unpack what the agentic shift really means for data, governance, and Master Data Management. PwC and Reltio have been working together for years, but the conversation is now moving beyond implementations to real busines...

AI agents are only as good as the data and context behind them. At DataDriven 2026, I caught up with Sushant Rai from Reltio to talk about their latest announcements and where they see enterprise AI heading next. The big theme was clear. Context is everything. Without trusted enterprise data grounding AI systems, outcomes fall short. That is exactly where Reltio is placing its bets with its Contex...

AI will fail without strong data foundations. At the DataDriven Conference 2026 by Reltio, I sat down with Bronwen Schumacher from ZS to talk about what it really takes to make enterprise data ready for AI.Bronwen leads the Reltio partnership at ZS, a global consulting firm deeply rooted in life sciences and healthcare. ZS has been one of Reltio’s earliest partners, working together for 13 years t...

Most companies think they are building data platforms. What they are actually building is the foundation for AI agents to make decisions!!!! At DataDriven 2026, I sat down with Manish Sood, Founder and CEO of Reltio, and our conversation made one thing clear: the role of data platforms is changing fast. Reltio just crossed $185M in ARR with strong growth, but the bigger story is how they are redef...

Most AI systems look impressive in controlled environments. But the real test begins when they meet production data. In my latest conversation, I sat down with Antonio Bustamante, Co-Founder and CEO of bem on The Ravit Show, to unpack one of the hardest problems in enterprise AI today: making unstructured data reliable enough to power real decisions. We talked about why extraction alone is not the...

They built one of the fastest growing newsletter platforms for creators. I just published my conversation with Tyler Denk, Co-Founder & CEO of beehiiv on The Ravit Show and this one is fully practical. Instead of talking about newsletters in theory, we went inside his own newsletter, Big Desk Energy, and broke down how he actually runs it. On screen. Step by step. No fluff. We covered: * How B...

Let's go 2026!!!! This Enterprise series is huge. Loved recording this one with real leaders who are using GenAI and leveraging right Data. Everyone is talking about GenAI in customer service. Very few are talking about what actually works in production. Next week, we are going live with a real, honest conversation on how enterprises are using GenAI with customer data to transform customer ser...

Once teams start trusting AI to explain systems and guide decisions, expectations change. The conversation shifts from understanding to action. In Part 2 of the podcast, we go deeper into what happens next in the AI journey on the mainframe. We talk about trust and why it is the real blocker to scaling AI.How organizations move from alerts and recommendations to agentic workflows. And what safe au...

🚨Breaking: Big announcements by MongoDB. I just spoke to Pete Johnson, Field CTO for AI at MongoDB on The Ravit Show. This conversation cuts through the noise around AI and focuses on what actually works in production!!!! We get into: - What the Field CTO for AI role really looks like in the field - How MongoDB thinks about the data and AI intersection - Which recent MongoDB announcements actuall...

AI agents did not suddenly appear this year. What changed is that enterprises are finally ready to use them. At AWS re:Invent, I spoke with Ronen Schwartz, CEO of K2view, to talk about what has really shifted in the agent space from last year to this year and why this moment feels different!!!! Here is what we covered • What changed in the agent landscape Last year was about ideas and experiments....