The mud has settled on the latest Domo Connections Tour in Australia. For many who could not know, the Connections Tour is one in all Domo’s key buyer occasions (the opposite being Domopalooza), the place executives and technical workers share the most recent Domo technique and product updates in a roadshow format. This 12 months, for the primary time, the Connections Tour was prolonged to incorporate Sydney and Melbourne, representing Domo Asia-Pacific and the native Domo buyer group. 

Let’s dive proper into it, with my high 5 observations concerning the occasion—and what they imply for patrons all over the place! 

5 takeaways from the Domo Connections Tour in Sydney and Melbourne

1. Asia-Pacific just isn’t North America. 

For US-based firms, it’s simple for management to lose sight of what’s occurring in different components of the world. Native Domo workers at all times characterize our clients strongly. Nonetheless, there’s nothing like international executives listening to it firsthand to grasp direct suggestions and distinctive wants.

It’s illuminating for executives (and technical workers) to be taught that Australian clients have advanced, subtle Domo use circumstances, whereas working in very completely different regulatory environments. Regardless, innovation is alive and effectively in Asia-Pacific, and we proceed to problem Domo’s product capabilities! 

2. AI guidelines.  

No shock to anybody, AI stays the most well liked subject on the planet, and clients have been hungry to study Domo’s AI technique and rising product options. Our mature, agnostic method to generative AI and mannequin administration functionality resonated with Australian enterprise clients as they give the impression of being past “wait and see” proofs-of-concept, and in the direction of significant AI functions within the new 12 months. 

3. Knowledge issues. 

AI additionally shone a harsh gentle on knowledge high quality, revealing biases and gaps in Australian knowledge sources—ones that have been beforehand hidden by present analytical regimes. A pervasive theme throughout each Connections Tour cities was buyer recognition of this challenge, together with elevated give attention to guaranteeing correct and related knowledge seize. Likewise, clients anticipated that this “recent lens” on knowledge would impression the insights gleaned from conventional analytics, as higher-quality knowledge and fashions have been fed again into the respective knowledge sources and platforms. 

4. The basics by no means change. 

As boring as this takeaway would possibly sound, it additionally rapidly turned apparent that Australian clients, very like their international counterparts, grapple each day with the basics of governance and knowledge administration. Mature enterprises in Australia have the identical issues round complexity, working prices, and enterprise relevance which have at all times been a part of the info and analytics trade. Regardless of the attract of AI, there’s nonetheless a powerful want for the ease-of-use, effectivity, and enterprise impression that Domo delivers. 

5. Clients love Domo. 

One piece of suggestions that’s constant throughout all Connections Tour occasions worldwide is clients’ love of the product. In distinction to many different software program platforms, individuals genuinely take pleasure in utilizing the product and discover that Domo brings actual worth to the work they’re doing. That’s to not say there aren’t challenges alongside the way in which, nor room for Domo to enhance. Nonetheless, when ranging from a place of person acceptance and enthusiasm, you’ll be able to far more simply give attention to fixing the precise enterprise drawback. Because the Connections Tour has confirmed, there are many Domo fanatics “down beneath.” 

Primarily based on the success of this 12 months’s Connections Tour in Australia, it’s protected to say we’ll be again subsequent 12 months. Clients have actually appreciated the direct connection to Domo executives and product specialists, and these occasions enable us to completely perceive what our clients need—and, most significantly, why. If the constructive suggestions from clients is any information, we’re additionally going to wish larger venues!