The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: Better Analytics, Smarter Purchasing, and Improved Profitability with Cameron Jagoe of ProcureVue

Episode Date: July 22, 2024

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Welcome to the Datastack show prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You'll get to meet our guest and hear about the topics we're going to cover. If they're interesting to you, you can catch the full-length show when it drops on Wednesday. Welcome back to the show. We're here with Cameron Jago. Cameron, we're so excited to chat with you awesome i'm glad to be here all right well tell us a little bit about who you are and what procure view does sure so i'm the original founder and currency of procure view

and it's been my passion project for basically 13 years. And what we're focused on is improving, they say improving profitability for businesses by leveraging their strategic sourcing. You know, one of the, one of the axioms that we go off of is most companies are about 10% operating income, which means for every $1 we help them save on the purchasing side, it's worth $10 of sales. And it's right to that bottom line. So that's our focus. And sort of our claim to fame is just our really in-depth and really deep granular analytics that we provide. Very cool. Well, I can't wait to hear more

about how you do it. Yeah. So Cameron, this area is very near and dear to my heart. I actually ran a procurement team for a short amount of time. So I'm really excited to dive into that. I love data as well. So I'm excited to dive into that. What are some topics you want to cover? That's a good question i didn't expect that one um right out of left field yeah that is covering up guard uh i i can sort of chat about it you know my my hobbies until kind of the past couple years have been around this stuff you know this was what i was doing for my day job and then i'd go home at night and i yeah I'd code up algorithms and projects at home, and then sell them on the side. Once it became the full-time job, I was like, okay,

I've got to find something else to do. You've got to find another hobby, yeah. Right, right, yeah. Yeah. So I don't know. I guess what are in your guys' mind? Yeah. Sounds good.

All right, well, let's dig in. All right, that's a's dig in. All right. That's a wrap for the prequel. The full length episode will drop Wednesday morning. Subscribe now so you don't miss it.