Sharat Menon is a Senior Principal Analyst in the Tech Product Manager team of Gartner's Technology and Service Provider (TSP) organization. He currently covers the data integration software market and the database management systems market. Furthermore, Mr. Menon tracks the emerging trends in data management, such as data fabric architectures, DataOps best practices, citizen data management and augmented data management, and how vendors can leverage these trends for sustainable growth.
During his stint at EXL, Mr. Menon worked on managing the clients' corporate travel data flow across systems, right from data ingestion, data scrubbing, data integration, analytics and reporting, for creating standardized and ad hoc dashboards to measure the performance of the contracts that clients have in place with airlines, and hence assist them in negotiating better deals, based on trends and patterns in the data as well as competitors' benchmarks.
Infosys
Systems Engineer
Infosys
Associate Consultant
EXL Service
Lead Assistant Manager
Product/Service Discovery and Validation
Product/Service Design and Creation
Product/Service Introduction and Delivery
Messaging and Differentiation
Technology Market Essentials
Post Graduate Diploma, Management in Information Technology, Institute of Management Technology
Bachelor in Information Technology, Mahatma Gandhi University
1Go-to-market planning for data integration & DBMS vendors: Positioning and messaging, understanding the competitive landscape
2Trends in data delivery styles: Bulk/Batch DI (ETL) vs. data virtualization vs. data replication & synchronization vs. message-oriented movement vs. event streams
3Trends in deployment strategies for data management tools: On-premises vs. cloud vs. hybrid vs. multicloud vs. intercloud
4Data preparation for business teams: How to penetrate the market and sustain growth
5Emerging trends in data management - data catalogs, data lakes, data fabric, DataOps