Many companies wanting to implement artificial intelligence often lack experts in data and AI learning, but Matillion Ltd. aims to help organizations such as Coca-Cola Consolidated empower all their employees to run data pipelines.

Coca-Cola Consolidated’s Jeremy Post and Matillion’s Matthew Scullion and  talk about the importance of democratizing data.

“The reason we don’t all have the data that we need is because there aren’t enough data engineers to do all the work,” said Matthew Scullion (pictured, right), founder and chief executive officer of Matillion. “The problem is even more urgent and even more acute [with generative AI]. There is even fewer people that can build out these sophisticated gen AI pipelines. We can save people with the domain expertise and turn them into highly productive data engineering teams.”

Scullion and Jeremy Post (left), manager of business intelligence at Coca Cola Consolidated, spoke with theCUBE’s Rebecca Knight and Dave Vellante at Data Cloud Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the details of the Matillion/Coca Cola Consolidated collaboration and how AI is replacing time-consuming tasks. (* Disclosure below.)

Matillion/Coca-Cola Consolidated collaboration saves time, costs for truckers

Coca Cola Consolidated owns a private trucking company called Red Classic that helps save on transportation costs, but according to Post, who started out as a trucker himself, trailers and equipment were often lost en route. With Matillion, he could figured out where and how many trailers there were and where they needed to go.

“We needed a solution that would allow us to work with it effectively and quickly to get things standing up that … don’t need highly technical people to do it,” Post said. “Matillion gave me a way where I could just go in and I could see these orchestrations visually, and I could work in what I was comfortable with.”

There is even more of a dearth of AI expertise than in data engineering, according to Scullion, so Matillion is creating tools that help the average customer build gen AI pipelines. Because of the AI copilot Matillion has implemented, its pipelines require 70% less time to maintain over time than other ways of building pipelines and welcome a wider range of users.

“Democratization of data is where the future is, and it’s only going to become more pronounced when there are fewer and fewer technical people trying to do those things,” Post said. “The companies that can work with those folks that are less technical are going to be successful because democratization is going to steamroll you. It’s happening.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of Data Cloud Summit: 

(* Disclosure: Matillion Ltd. and Coca-Cola Consolidated sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Matillion, Coca-Cola Consolidated nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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