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This week on Making Data Simple, we welcome Ralph Gootee, CTO and co-founder of TigerEye, a company reshaping strategic sales intelligence with a data-driven edge. Ralph’s journey spans Pixar, Sony, and PlanGrid — and now he’s building tools to help sales leaders see around corners. From the secrets behind TigerEye's intuitive reporting to the realities of entrepreneurship and the affordability of LLMs, this episode hits both the business brain and the tech heart.

• 00:52 Meet Ralph Gootee
• 01:43 TigerEye
• 04:49 PlanGrid
• 07:43 Monetization
• 08:50 TigerEye's Objective
• 12:38 Reinventing Reporting
• 17:06 How it Works
• 22:21 The Secret Sauce
• 27:48 LLM Affordability
• 34:14 Last Call
• 38:57 The Entrepreneur Dilemma
• 39:47 Where to Reach TigerEye
• 40:07 Do Code Assistants Work?
• 47:32 For Fun

🔗 Connect with Ralph & TigerEye
LinkedIn: Ralph Gootee
Website: TigerEye
Blog: TigerEye Blog

#MakingDataSimple #SalesIntelligence #AIinSales #EntrepreneurMindset #LLMs #StartupLife #PixarToPipeline #DataDrivenDecisions #TechLeadership #TigerEye

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🎧 REPLAY ALERT: The Future of Risk, Powered by AI
In case you missed it the first time — we’re bringing back this incredible conversation with Kathy Stares, EVP of North America at Provenir.

Kathy dives into how Provenir’s AI-powered risk decisioning software processes over 4 billion transactions annually across 50+ countries. From fintech to traditional banking, learn how this platform is shaking up risk strategies with automation, innovation, and global reach.

🌍 Why does risk decisioning need AI?
🚀 What’s driving the next wave of banking transformation?
📊 How can Gen Z shape the future of financial services?

Timestamps:

• 01:14 Meet Kathy Stares
• 04:34 The Start of Summer
• 08:01 AI-Powered Risk Decisioning
• 11:31 The Tech Behind Provenir
• 13:42 Models
• 14:32 Data Source
• 16:43 The Business Problem
• 17:33 Banking Strategies
• 18:48 Platform Scope
• 20:28 Automation
• 21:46 Provenir’s Differentiator
• 22:47 Millennials & Gen Z
• 29:05 Trends to Watch
• 31:57 Kathy’s Takeaway
• 33:28 Connect with Provenir
• 35:25 The Wealthy Barber

🎙️ Guest: Kathy Stares
🔗 Learn more: provenir.com

#AIinFinance #FintechInnovation #RiskDecisioning #FinancialServices #AIReplay #Automation #FutureOfBanking #GenZFinance #WomenInTech #MakingDataSimple #TechPodcast #ProvenirAI #PodcastReplay

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We’re back for Part 2 of our Automation deep-dive—and the hits just keep coming! Host Al Martin reunites with IBM automation aces Sarah McAndrew (WW Automation Technical Sales) and Vikram Murali (App Mod & IT Automation Development) to push past the hype and map out the road ahead.

🎬 Episode Highlights

• 00:12 Observability – why seeing everything is half the battle
• 04:17 IBM Concert – orchestrating dev, ops & business in one score
• 07:42 Tech vs. Culture – the million-dollar question
• 11:34 Real-world use cases that ship value today
• 13:65 Scanning the Future of Automation (spoiler: it’s closer than you think)
• 15:32 Hashi – tooling that scales with you
• 17:42 Top resources to learn more and stay ahead of the curve
• 18:13 Lightning-round fun to wrap it up

Whether you’re wrangling legacy systems or architecting cloud-native dreams, this conversation will spark ideas, bust myths, and give you action items of immediate value. Smash that play button, tag a colleague, and join the movement to #MakingDataSimple!

🔗 Connect: Sarah McAndrew LinkedIn | Vikram Murali LinkedIn
🌐 Explore IBM Automation: ibm.com/automation

#MakingDataSimple #IBMAutomation #Observability #TechPodcast #FutureOfWork

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.