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

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

02

Data Integration and Migration - guidance on best practices for integrating or migrating on-prem to cloud-based data architectures or rebalancing cloud data architectures.

03

Data Architectures including: Virtualization, Hubs, Lakehouse, Data Lake, EDW, Data Marts, and ODS. Also providing guidance on Open Table Formats like Iceberg and Delta Lake.

04

AI-Ready Data - guidance on core data management components and AI-specific tools and techniques necessary to support AI-ready data.

05

Data architectures and related DBMS comparisons, on-prem, hybrid, and cloud-based.