Gartner Expert

Michael Gonzales

Sr Director Analyst

Sr. Director Analyst for Data Management and Technology

Previous experience

My work has been focused on the establishment, migration (cloud or hybrid), or rebalancing of data architectures (EDW, Data Lakes, Data Marts, etc.) and the analytic use cases they are required to support.

Professional background

Data Sentinel, Inc., SVP Research and Data Science, 2 years

dss42, LLC, Consultant, 18 years

Prolifics, Inc., Data Scientist, 2 years

Areas of coverage
  • Data Management Solutions

  • Adopt Modern Architectures and Technologies

Education

Ph.D., Information and Decision Science (concentration); University of Texas at El Paso, 2012

Dissertation: Competitive Advantage Factors and Diffusion of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

01

Data Fabric and Data Mesh - high-level view of the role, value, and challenges.

02

Data Ecosystems - high-level view of the role, value, and challenges.

03

Data Architecture Components including: Lakehouse, Data Lake, EDW, Data Marts, and ODS

04

AI-Ready Data - guidance on options for integrating AI/ML into data engineering solutions.

05

DBMS including comparison of cloud-based databases, Data Virtualization, and Open Table Formats.