Enterprise Wide Search

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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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July 10 · 31 min
Enterprise Wide Search 37: Lulit T, Joe H & Zach W - Why AI Needs Enterprise Semantics
In this episode, Ole Olesen-Bagneux sits down with Lulit Tesfaye, Joseph Hilger, and Zach Wahl from Enterprise Knowledge to explore why the future of enterprise AI depends on connecting knowledge, data, and semantics. Drawing from their new book, Br...
June 26 · 26 min
Enterprise Wide Search 36: Xavier Gumara Rigol - When Data Becomes a Product Driver
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Xavier Gumara Rigol, author of Data as a Product Driver and Head of Data at Manychat, to explore what happens when data moves beyond reporting and becomes part of how produc...
June 12 · 25 min
Enterprise Wide Search 35: Samuel Bitrus - The Catalog of Catalogs
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Samuel Bitrus, Data Quality and Governance Manager at Lufthansa Group, to explore the evolving role of data catalogs in large, complex enterprises. Drawing from his work a...
May 29 · 25 min
Enterprise Wide Search 34: Sune Selsbæk-Reitz - Promptism and the Fight for Meaning
In this episode, Ole Olesen-Bagneux sits down with Sune Selsbæk-Reitz, Data & AI Strategist at Demant and author of Promptism, for a conversation on how generative AI is reshaping the way humans interact with knowledge, meaning, and decision-makin...
May 15 · 31 min
Enterprise Wide Search 33: Carsten Bange - The Analyst View: Data Culture Matters More Than Ever
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Carsten Bange, founder and CEO of BARC, one of Europe’s leading analyst firms focused on data, analytics, and AI. With more than 25 years advising enterprises on data strat...
May 1 · 27 min
Enterprise Wide Search 32: Kierra Dotson - AI Changes Everything… Except the Fundamentals
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Kierra Dotson, Associate Director of Data Science & AI Strategy at Further, keynote speaker, and thought leader known for helping enterprise leaders build AI strategies...
April 17 · 28 min
Enterprise Wide Search 31: Ashleigh Faith - Making AI Understand What It Says
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Ashleigh Faith, Director of AI and Semantic Innovation at EBSCO and creator of the IsA DataThing YouTube channel, to explore why knowledge graphs and ontologies are becoming...
April 3 · 29 min
Enterprise Wide Search 30: Juha Korpela - The Rise of Semantic Data Work
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Juha Korpela, independent consultant and co-founder of Helsinki Data Week, to explore why semantics is rapidly becoming a core pillar of modern data work. Drawing on his ex...
March 20 · 27 min
Enterprise Wide Search 29: Bjørn Broum - Data That Saves Lives
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Bjørn Broum, Director of Business Development for Technology, Architecture, and Data at the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA), to explore how data strategy works...
March 6 · 27 min
Enterprise Wide Search 28: Amra Dorjbayar - Designing the Agentic Enterprise
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Amra Dorjbayar, former co-founder and CEO of Wobby (recently acquired by Actian), to unpack what Agentic BI really means and why the next wave of analytics won’t look like d...
February 20 · 31 min
Enterprise Wide Search 27: Malcolm Hawker - The Data Hero Mindset and Why “Best Practices” Don’t Work
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Malcolm Hawker, Chief Data Officer at Profisee and author of The Data Hero Playbook, for a conversation about why so many data programs stall, even when teams follow the “ri...
February 6 · 24 min
Enterprise Wide Search 26: Ruud Kuil - The Exact ROI of Data Quality
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Ruud Kuil, longtime data quality expert and now co-founder of MAD-Quality, to discuss what really breaks in organizations when data is wrong and why fixing it requires rethi...
January 23 · 22 min
Enterprise Wide Search 25: Frédéric Verhelst - From Data Chaos to Meaning: The Rise of Ontologies in AI
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Frédéric Verhelst — a leading voice in semantic technologies and agentic AI, and longtime semantic web advocate — for a practical dive into ontologies, knowledge graphs, and...
January 9 · 23 min
Enterprise Wide Search 24: Mario Meir-Huber - Designing Data Products That Don’t Break on Honeymoon
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Mario Meir-Huber — author of Designing Data Products and longtime data leader — to talk about what happens when you stop treating data like a one-time project and start mana...
Dec 19, 2025 · 29 min
Enterprise Wide Search 23: Jovita Tam - The Lawyer Who Gets Data, AI, and Culture
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Jovita Tam, a business-focused data and AI advisor and attorney, about the hard truths of AI, governance, and organizational change. Known for connecting legal, technical,...
Dec 5, 2025 · 35 min
Enterprise Wide Search 22: Gaëlle Seret - Domains First: Rethinking Data Through Business Boundaries
In this episode, Ole Olesen-Bagneux is joined by Gaëlle Seret, product leader, writer, and enabler of data transformations at scale. Known for her clear-eyed writing on Substack, Gaëlle brings a mix of operational pragmatism and strategic depth to the...
Nov 21, 2025 · 17 min
Enterprise Wide Search 21: Frédéric Robert - Will MCP Kill the Data Marketplace?
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Frédéric Robert, Innovation and Data Advisory Director at Apgar, to unpack one of the most intriguing questions circulating in the data community: what happens to the data m...
Nov 7, 2025 · 34 min
Enterprise Wide Search 20: Julia Diez - Data & AI with Cultural Context
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Julia Diez, Localization Software Engineer at McAfee and the author behind one of the most quietly brilliant Substacks in tech today. Trained as a linguist and now working...
Oct 24, 2025 · 30 min
Enterprise Wide Search 19: Lukas Plaehn - Trust, Tech, and the Data Dilemma in Finance
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Lukas Plaehn, Head of Data Office at Bank of Valletta, to explore what makes data so hard to manage in financial institutions—and why that challenge goes deeper than technol...
Oct 10, 2025 · 28 min
Enterprise Wide Search 18: Jean-Georges Perrin - This is Not a Data Product
In this episode, co-hosts Emma McGrattan and Ole Olesen-Bagneux sit down with Jean-Georges Perrin—better known as JGP—to discuss the future of data products, the limitations of BI, and the importance of federated thinking in an era of real-time everyt...

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