Are data platforms the new backend?
Sarah Wright
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A new trend in SaaS is app developers bringing their applications to their customers’ data.
Next week, we're teaming up with Snowflake and talking to the Head of Security of Anecdotes (Esther Pinto), CEO of Supergrain (George Xing), and CEO of Rudderstack (Soumyadeb Mitra) about why startups are building their apps on top of customers’ data platforms.
What questions do you have for this panel? What do you want to know about this new deployment model?
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Jonathan Massabni@jonathanm
How do they handle privacy of data? since apps are installed directly in the data
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What is the most efficient process to deal with developing data schemas across a company, between business units, or across companies?
Their views on open source, self hosting. Pus, how have their customers been responding to this new trend in SaaS?
Does having personalized service (through data) really affect business metrics?
What is the most efficient setup to enable data informed apps? How to model the data, should we read from production db/olap?
How do these companies seek to incorporate new business use cases (core to marketing, security, etc.) over time? Would this be handled internally by the SaaS developers themselves or via a marketplace of builders?
Also, is there any place we can catch this discussion live/recorded?
With all the advantages that this new model brings, there will also be some new challenges that developers will face - what do they look like?
A few that I can think of, would love your thoughts on these -
1. Because the data resides with the customer, the deployment complexity of such applications would be higher. Are there any new blueprints for managing such deployments?
2. It'll be difficult for application providers to migrate systems or fix data issues since application providers do not own the data and might not have relevant privileges. How has your experience been with such use cases?