Knowledge Cast by Enterprise Knowledge
Oct 9, 2026 · 17 min · 10 segments
Enterprise Knowledge’s Lulit Tesfaye, VP of Knowledge & Data Services, speaks with Amy Duncan, a Director at Anexsys (a Consilio company) and panelist at this year's Semantic Layer Symposium, about…
Lulit TesfayeHostUm, I think people very much underestimate impact that poorly organized, poorly indexed data has, not just to employees in terms of their day-to-day, but these exercises that you might have to conduct from a legal perspective-
... from an information governance perspective, whether that's also things like the impact of data breaches, knowing much sooner on in a process of what data is there, what could have been impacted, um, is very valuable to, to organizations.
And also things like, yeah, any migrations that need to take place, things are what needs to be copied over.
Um, because the amount of times that we have to deal on particular cases where people have saved things all over the place and even at individual employee level, they don't know where their data is, and managing that across sort of thousands of employees, um, is very difficult for teams to get to grips with what is where, and it can cause headaches for everyone, as I say, later on.
So I think that is going to stick for a while, which is really know where your data is.
That's the biggest investment and that which unlocks to like- Now what does it mean? How do you understand it? You can't solve for what you don't know what you have.
The reason why I ask that is you're going to be, uh, sitting on a panel with, uh, people coming from different industries, different walks of life, different experiences, especially with semantics.
Um, I think, uh, what I'm hearing from you is, uh, in light of, uh, where do we go from here? Actually, let me ask you this question.
Our attendees, the attendees coming to the symposium would hear from you? Uh, what, what should they expect?
So I'm also, whilst attending, um, and being part of this panel, I'm also listening to what everyone else has to say throughout the event.
And I think with a symposium generally, there, you've got such a diverse audience in terms of industries, how people are using semantic layers and other technology.
I think when you're listening to other ... listening to the panel and also others, how they are using it in their unique case, but also the parallels that it might have to your organization, and not using it in isolation.
So not just using it for a particular purpose, making sure that it's there in place for all these other use cases, preparation for legal cases, um, preparation for, um, migrations, um, and other potential use cases are kind of the work that you do today in put- in implementing it and putting it in place, um, sort of pay off later down the line when you really need it.
Um, I think people very much underestimate impact that poorly organized, poorly indexed data has, not just to employees in terms of their day-to-day, but these exercises that you might have to conduct from a legal perspective-
... from an information governance perspective, whether that's also things like the impact of data breaches, knowing much sooner on in a process of what data is there, what could have been impacted, um, is very valuable to, to organizations.
And also things like, yeah, any migrations that need to take place, things are what needs to be copied over.
Um, because the amount of times that we have to deal on particular cases where people have saved things all over the place and even at individual employee level, they don't know where their data is, and managing that across sort of thousands of employees, um, is very difficult for teams to get to grips with what is where, and it can cause headaches for everyone, as I say, later on.
So I think that is going to stick for a while, which is really know where your data is.
That's the biggest investment and that which unlocks to like- Now what does it mean? How do you understand it? You can't solve for what you don't know what you have.
The reason why I ask that is you're going to be, uh, sitting on a panel with, uh, people coming from different industries, different walks of life, different experiences, especially with semantics.
Um, I think, uh, what I'm hearing from you is, uh, in light of, uh, where do we go from here? Actually, let me ask you this question.
Our attendees, the attendees coming to the symposium would hear from you? Uh, what, what should they expect?
So I'm also, whilst attending, um, and being part of this panel, I'm also listening to what everyone else has to say throughout the event.
And I think with a symposium generally, there, you've got such a diverse audience in terms of industries, how people are using semantic layers and other technology.
I think when you're listening to other ... listening to the panel and also others, how they are using it in their unique case, but also the parallels that it might have to your organization, and not using it in isolation.
So not just using it for a particular purpose, making sure that it's there in place for all these other use cases, preparation for legal cases, um, preparation for, um, migrations, um, and other potential use cases are kind of the work that you do today in put- in implementing it and putting it in place, um, sort of pay off later down the line when you really need it.
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