PEPPER GLOBAL
“ There ' s not a single big lever . It ' s about a myriad of applications across the value chain ”
ANDREW DAY GROUP CHIEF DATA OFFICER , PEPPER GLOBAL
Day is only too aware of the cost of poor information management , and says though it can be handled effectively , it ’ s not an easy task . He explains , “ I would like to say it ' s really clean and straightforward . But that ' s far from the case . Pepper has a standard footprint of technologies .
But like every group company , it ’ s not helpful or practical to mandate the specific use of these in each of the business units . They are at liberty to create or choose the technologies that help them deliver the best possible service into the local market . We ' re there obviously to provide advice , but we certainly aren ' t the tech and data police .”
Instead , Day ’ s job is to make sure all units are operating as efficiently as possible . And to do that Pepper uses technologies that include Microsoft Azure and GCP . These are paired with tooling that is core to data management , enabling the data to be shared across the group .
“ We use DataRobot , Alteryx , Tableau and Snowflake in some business units ,” Day says . “ We also have Power BI widely deployed . So it really is a question of us providing advice on tooling from a group perspective , and letting
92 December 2021