Gartner Expert
Joao Tapadinhas
VP Analyst
Joao Tapadinhas is a Research Director at Gartner, in the Business Analytics and Data Science team. He helps data and analytics leaders architect, implement and evolve their modern BI and analytics platforms, to empower business users and increase the impact from data. Of particular interest is the exploration of citizen data science to augment self-service analytics capabilities and simplify access to data science in organizations. He also covers cloud BI, big data discovery, mobile BI and business users' engagement with analytics.
Roles and responsibility
Data and analytics leaders and their teams
Business units using BI and analytics
CIO wanting to start or evolve analytics in the organization
Previous experience
Mr. Tapadinhas joined Gartner after two years at Portugal Telecom Information Systems, acting as consulting practice director for BI and analytics, enterprise content management and enterprise application integration. Prior to that, he led a team of BI and analytics for 11 years, at Portugal Telecom, evolving the company's analytics maturity from the widespread use of spreadsheets as BI standard, to a comprehensive implementation of self-service analytics capabilities and broad deployment of data science use cases. He was also head of IT for Dun & Bradstreet Portugal for four years, helping the business evolve from being a data supplier, to offering analytics as a service to customers.
Professional background
Portugal Telecom Information Systems
Consulting Practice Director
Portugal Telecom Mobile
Head of Business Intelligence and Analytics
Dun & Bradstreet
Head of IT
Areas of coverage
Data and Analytics Leaders
Analytics, BI and Data Science Solutions
Data and Analytics Strategies
Education
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Lisbon
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1How to architect a modern BI and analytics platform?
2Strengths and limitations of BI and analytics platforms
3How to deploy and leverage cloud business analytics?
4How to leverage Data Discovery for self-service analytics?
5How to leverage citizen data science and big data discovery?