Lance Walter has more than two decades of enterprise product management and marketing experience.
Lance started his career in technical roles at Oracle supporting enterprise relational database deployments. Since then, Lance has worked at industry leaders like Siebel Systems and Business Objects, as well as successful startups including Onlink (acquired by Siebel Systems), Pentaho (acquired by Hitachi Data Systems), Aria Systems and Capriza. Lance’s first experience with alternative database platforms was at Arbor Software, the pioneer of the multi-dimensional database / OLAP market.
Technically, it was 25 years ago, which is a long time in tech, but I remember it like it was yesterday. I was in my first Product Marketing job at a NoSQL database company called Arbor Software (that later merged into Hyperion Solutions, which ended up in Oracle’s acquisition “tractor... read more
Gartner predicts that by 2025, graph technologies will be used in 80% of data and analytics innovations, up from 10% in 2021, facilitating rapid decision-making across the organization. Gartner’s Data & Analytics Summit is a marquee show where IT leaders learn about major data and... read more
“These guys are killing it!” Back in 2013, I was contacted by my friend Randy who’s a long-time Bay Area tech recruiter. He was looking for sales and marketing referrals for a company called MapR. He really couldn’t have been more enthusiastic. “I haven’t seen one like this... read more
We’re pleased to announce the addition of two phenomenal keynote speakers to the already-awesome lineup of presenters at GraphConnect 2018 in New York City. (Psst: Register now if you haven’t already, as space is limited!). Morning Keynote Speaker: Hilary Mason, Cloudera In addition to... read more
Speaking on behalf of the Neo4j team, I am excited to announce that Matt Casters has joined Neo4j, Inc. Matt has a sterling reputation in the open source community for his work in leading the Kettle project. Matt and I also worked together at Pentaho, so I was more than happy to sit down and... read more