Common Platform, Local Ownership: Scaling Data Products at Atlas Copco, with Tom Delesie

Tom Delesie, data analytics manager at Atlas Copco, joins host Kris Peeters to talk about building a common data platform for a global, decentralised company. His team brought several platforms together into one Intelligence Hub, giving every team the same foundations while leaving ownership of data products with the business.

Tom explains how templated rooms give teams a shared way of working, why some work is deliberately kept out of the reusable layer, how transparent costs and open visibility encourage reuse, and why a clearly written purpose matters as much as good engineering. He also shares how the platform is getting ready for AI agents.

Resources shared by Tom:

🎥 Enabling the things that shape our lives, Atlas Copco Group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk3QfMgPyZM

🏭 Atlas Copco: https://www.atlascopco.com

💼 Jobs at Atlas Copco: https://www.jobs.atlascopcogroup.com

🌐 More at www.dataminded.com

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction

0:37 Atlas Copco and its four business areas

3:09 Tom's role: platform and use cases5:46 From five data platforms to one Intelligence Hub

7:30 Decommissioning legacy platforms

9:11 Aligning platform leaders across business areas

11:05 Balancing freedom and ownership

14:57 Transparent costs and an internal data economy

18:13 Reuse, access requests and sensitive data

22:05 Shared and private data products

24:06 The data product room

29:39 Deprecating data products

30:01 Why a clear purpose drives adoption

33:10 Operational entities and consumption rooms

36:26 Self-service and enablement teams

40:20 AI agents as new platform users

43:01 Dashboards, semantic layers and KPI definitions

47:30 Freedom first, convergence later

Guest: Tom Delesie, Data Analytics Manager, Atlas CopcoHost: Kris Peeters, CEO, Dataminded