LOWELL, Mass., , Sept. 23, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Podium Data CEO Dr. Paul Barth and Sherri Adame, enterprise metadata management leader at Cigna, will discuss the importance of data governance and use of metadata in deploying an effective data lake in a large enterprise. The presentation will take place at the O’Reilly Strata+ Hadoop World conference on Thursday, September 29, 2016 in New York City.

The presentation will feature Adame who will discuss Cigna’s data lake project that was launched in late 2015. She will describe the project in terms of the company’s data governance journey and will provide insights into some of the business pain points/drivers, organizational change, and best practices associated with Cigna’s new data governance process.

What: “Governance & Metadata Management of Cigna’s Enterprise Data Lake”

When: September 29, 2016, 1:15 EDT

Where: O’Reilly Strata+ Hadoop World conference, Javitz Center, New York, NY

Who: Sherri Adame, Cigna and Paul Barth, Podium Data

For more information about the Strata + Hadoop conference, please visit http://conferences.oreilly.com/strata/hadoop-big-data-ny.

About Podium Data, Inc.
Podium Data is redefining enterprise data management with its practical, high performance data lake management platform. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, Podium’s seasoned team of entrepreneurs has deep expertise in analytics, big data and enterprise data management. A growing list of Fortune 500 companies use Podium to accelerate delivery of data to business users through a variety of enterprise scale data lake, extraction/transformation, and load migrations; and analytic projects. More information is available at www.podiumdata.com and on Twitter at @PodiumData.

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