Meeting Title: Omni Certification Process Date: 2025-11-11 Meeting participants: Samuel Roberts, Mustafa Raja, Rico Rejoso, Uttam Kumaran, Awaish Kumar, Amber Lin, Demilade Agboola, Zoran Selinger
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1 00:01:52.650 ⇒ 00:01:53.580 Uttam Kumaran: Hey guys.
2 00:01:58.740 ⇒ 00:01:59.100 Samuel Roberts: Hey.
3 00:02:00.580 ⇒ 00:02:01.430 Rico Rejoso: Hey, guys.
4 00:02:03.250 ⇒ 00:02:03.940 Mustafa Raja: Hey.
5 00:02:19.060 ⇒ 00:02:19.980 Amber Lin: Hi.
6 00:02:21.550 ⇒ 00:02:22.560 Uttam Kumaran: Hello.
7 00:02:27.260 ⇒ 00:02:35.149 Amber Lin: Oh, since we’re all here. Question on the delivery dash. I just met… we just met with Henry. When do you expect it to be done?
8 00:02:35.260 ⇒ 00:02:37.310 Amber Lin: Do you have a deadline you want for that?
9 00:02:38.060 ⇒ 00:02:46.750 Uttam Kumaran: No, but I guess, like, Mondays are a delivery meeting, so if you can get me something to review Thursday, then at least gives another day to, like.
10 00:02:48.720 ⇒ 00:02:57.050 Uttam Kumaran: you know, give some feedback. I think probably my only point there is I just want to make sure, Mustafa, like, if we were able to mask
11 00:02:57.590 ⇒ 00:03:02.609 Uttam Kumaran: Like, any of the rate-related information, or if you ended up looking at that.
12 00:03:07.480 ⇒ 00:03:07.960 Mustafa Raja: Maybe that’s…
13 00:03:07.960 ⇒ 00:03:11.040 Uttam Kumaran: Something me, you, and Awash can talk about, too.
14 00:03:11.780 ⇒ 00:03:20.720 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, like, I’m not sure, are we, like, recreating the wheel and omni, like… Creating all these…
15 00:03:21.290 ⇒ 00:03:28.389 Awaish Kumar: Explorers and things again, like… In dbt, I already created some fact tables, right, for Joyles.
16 00:03:28.670 ⇒ 00:03:32.820 Awaish Kumar: linear, Clockify, Add all of this together in one table.
17 00:03:33.710 ⇒ 00:03:36.419 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I think the biggest thing is just, like, if…
18 00:03:36.670 ⇒ 00:03:42.760 Uttam Kumaran: If Mustafa is going to be sort of doing a lot of the… the development work, so…
19 00:03:43.580 ⇒ 00:03:49.639 Uttam Kumaran: he needs to kind of get knowledge transfer on, like, how to do those models and how to test them end-to-end in Omni.
20 00:03:49.870 ⇒ 00:03:51.399 Uttam Kumaran: I guess, like, I don’t really…
21 00:03:51.880 ⇒ 00:03:54.329 Awaish Kumar: Eddie had a call with Mustafa.
22 00:03:54.460 ⇒ 00:03:59.040 Awaish Kumar: We went with, like, how to update the dbt files in Nomi itself.
23 00:03:59.640 ⇒ 00:04:04.559 Uttam Kumaran: Like, I don’t mind you doing it in… doing it in Omni first, and then moving it to dbt after, right?
24 00:04:05.030 ⇒ 00:04:08.010 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, but the same… same project is connected with the…
25 00:04:08.590 ⇒ 00:04:11.750 Awaish Kumar: Omni. You can just, from Omni, go into the…
26 00:04:12.370 ⇒ 00:04:17.029 Awaish Kumar: change the code and create a PR, it will just get versed on dbt project.
27 00:04:18.040 ⇒ 00:04:18.700 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
28 00:04:20.570 ⇒ 00:04:24.309 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, I don’t… I guess, like, I’ll… I would love if you guys can…
29 00:04:25.000 ⇒ 00:04:33.419 Uttam Kumaran: figure it out together, because I’m not too opinionated either way. Most of my concern is that, like, I want to just be able to see clearly, like.
30 00:04:34.860 ⇒ 00:04:36.709 Uttam Kumaran: Through reporting, you know.
31 00:04:42.760 ⇒ 00:04:45.020 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, so let’s get started.
32 00:04:45.170 ⇒ 00:04:55.260 Uttam Kumaran: I think I sent a little bit of a note on Omni certification, and I think it’s something that, I would love for
33 00:04:55.400 ⇒ 00:04:59.140 Uttam Kumaran: You know, us to all consider
34 00:04:59.250 ⇒ 00:05:05.650 Uttam Kumaran: taking on. So let me just kind of share my screen and,
35 00:05:05.940 ⇒ 00:05:07.790 Uttam Kumaran: Would like to just kind of gauge
36 00:05:08.790 ⇒ 00:05:11.599 Uttam Kumaran: Given, like, how… given the scope this is.
37 00:05:11.850 ⇒ 00:05:15.600 Uttam Kumaran: You know, what… everybody’s availability to sort of
38 00:05:15.940 ⇒ 00:05:24.960 Uttam Kumaran: work on this. So, basically, they have two tracks. There’s, like, an Omni Platform certification and an Omni Quick Start certification.
39 00:05:26.550 ⇒ 00:05:38.549 Uttam Kumaran: I would say, at minimum, I would like everybody to sort of try to get certified through the platform, but for folks that are going to be, like, implementing, you know, client-facing, I think, in particular.
40 00:05:38.900 ⇒ 00:05:44.910 Uttam Kumaran: Demolade, Awash, Zoran, Henry, I’m sort of…
41 00:05:45.140 ⇒ 00:05:53.509 Uttam Kumaran: wanted to see if you guys would be interested in doing this Quick Start certification. It’s a little bit more,
42 00:05:53.610 ⇒ 00:05:57.369 Uttam Kumaran: it’s a little bit heavier, but, I think…
43 00:05:57.480 ⇒ 00:06:03.770 Uttam Kumaran: It’s basically what we need to complete in order for all of us to be trained on, like, how to go end-to-end with Omni.
44 00:06:03.970 ⇒ 00:06:12.990 Uttam Kumaran: The nice thing is, like, we have support from their team, and yeah, so if I just would walk through the platform certification doc.
45 00:06:13.110 ⇒ 00:06:22.350 Uttam Kumaran: Basically, it’s a self-paced learning, there is an assessment, and then there is a…
46 00:06:22.470 ⇒ 00:06:27.780 Uttam Kumaran: demo. And so basically,
47 00:06:28.240 ⇒ 00:06:35.299 Uttam Kumaran: The demo is just 20 minutes explaining a high-level overview of Omni, features, and differentiators.
48 00:06:35.430 ⇒ 00:06:40.249 Uttam Kumaran: And then… basically showing… Each of these items.
49 00:06:42.530 ⇒ 00:06:48.399 Uttam Kumaran: And then the last piece is to build this demo, and then sort of suc… sort of produce this. So…
50 00:06:48.570 ⇒ 00:06:52.980 Uttam Kumaran: I guess, like, one thing I would like to do is kind of see, I think.
51 00:06:53.340 ⇒ 00:06:58.780 Uttam Kumaran: this may take a little bit of time, but I would like us to kind of drive towards maybe
52 00:06:58.930 ⇒ 00:07:03.710 Uttam Kumaran: kind of getting everybody certified by the end of the month. One thing that Rico
53 00:07:04.110 ⇒ 00:07:05.510 Uttam Kumaran: I think it would be great.
54 00:07:05.640 ⇒ 00:07:12.009 Uttam Kumaran: To work on is… A bit of, like, sort of a schedule, for us to meet.
55 00:07:12.350 ⇒ 00:07:18.570 Uttam Kumaran: Each week, and then ideally, In two weeks, we should all kind of, like, be close to…
56 00:07:19.080 ⇒ 00:07:24.859 Uttam Kumaran: You know, starting, like, the… towards the demos, and then being able to… to build these.
57 00:07:25.040 ⇒ 00:07:34.730 Uttam Kumaran: the lovely thing is, I think a couple people in the team now are familiar with different parts of Omni, so Awash, myself, Amber, and
58 00:07:35.620 ⇒ 00:07:37.010 Uttam Kumaran: Mustafa.
59 00:07:38.300 ⇒ 00:07:50.060 Uttam Kumaran: So, I think, like, we have more than enough for a momentum towards this. Maybe I’ll just also outline, like, the requirements for the Quick Start certification.
60 00:07:50.350 ⇒ 00:07:53.810 Uttam Kumaran: So the Quick Start certification sort of starts,
61 00:07:54.250 ⇒ 00:07:57.770 Uttam Kumaran: Similarly, except it’s a little bit of a deeper…
62 00:07:59.680 ⇒ 00:08:06.210 Uttam Kumaran: you know, onboard. It’s a little bit of a deeper process. There’s, there’s basically…
63 00:08:06.380 ⇒ 00:08:13.699 Uttam Kumaran: We have to do a demo on each of these. So one thing that I can help with is helping everybody produce
64 00:08:13.890 ⇒ 00:08:19.540 Uttam Kumaran: Like, the script for a demo of walking through each of these, but of course, it will be on you to…
65 00:08:19.670 ⇒ 00:08:29.349 Uttam Kumaran: Submit, like, this, like, 45 to 60 minute demo. So it’s a bit heavier, for sure.
66 00:08:29.520 ⇒ 00:08:43.349 Uttam Kumaran: So this is something that maybe the core folks that are doing the Quick Start certification, maybe it’s helpful for all of us to start on the platform certification first, and then a few of us continue on to the Quick Start certification.
67 00:08:45.290 ⇒ 00:09:01.500 Uttam Kumaran: How do we feel about that? Does anyone have any, like, questions? I know in the past we’ve tried to sort of start on a couple of certifications, but we just got so busy, so I wanted… I’m gonna think with Rico how we do this a little bit of a different way, maybe just start a channel around certifications.
68 00:09:01.880 ⇒ 00:09:03.890 Uttam Kumaran: That way we can discuss, but…
69 00:09:04.560 ⇒ 00:09:09.050 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I guess, like, that’s probably my overview for now. Does anyone have any questions?
70 00:09:14.260 ⇒ 00:09:15.800 Awaish Kumar: Hmm, I know.
71 00:09:17.340 ⇒ 00:09:22.969 Demilade Agboola: Are there any, like, study, like, comprehensive study materials? Because I have actually used the platform.
72 00:09:23.940 ⇒ 00:09:39.990 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, there’s a lot directly, in here, so, I mean, of course, they have their documentation. They also do have their comprehensive, like, training guide here, so that goes through all pieces of this, and it’s, like, links out to
73 00:09:40.290 ⇒ 00:09:44.510 Uttam Kumaran: each relevant piece of the docs. So…
74 00:09:45.010 ⇒ 00:09:49.939 Uttam Kumaran: I would consider going through this. One thing that I can do is basically…
75 00:09:50.210 ⇒ 00:09:55.199 Uttam Kumaran: put together, like, at least once or twice a week, we can do an Omni office hours.
76 00:09:55.530 ⇒ 00:10:00.779 Uttam Kumaran: And that way, we can come in, and people can sort of explain where they are in the process.
77 00:10:01.020 ⇒ 00:10:03.909 Uttam Kumaran: And then I would like to kind of set an internal deadline
78 00:10:04.150 ⇒ 00:10:11.160 Uttam Kumaran: You know, of end of this month, to get towards the, original, sort of, like.
79 00:10:11.360 ⇒ 00:10:17.749 Uttam Kumaran: what is it? The platform certification, and then a few of us can continue on to the Quick Start certification.
80 00:10:23.240 ⇒ 00:10:37.170 Uttam Kumaran: So one thing I can do is basically, Rico, we can create a document just on Omni certifications, we can put everybody’s names, and then let’s also start with a schedule, sort of between now and the end of the month.
81 00:10:37.490 ⇒ 00:10:39.530 Uttam Kumaran: On, like, kind of checkpoints.
82 00:10:40.150 ⇒ 00:10:44.349 Uttam Kumaran: So ideally, if we were to take the platform certification.
83 00:10:44.620 ⇒ 00:10:53.310 Uttam Kumaran: Couple of checkpoints are to go ahead and, basically, understand each of these
84 00:10:53.480 ⇒ 00:10:59.469 Uttam Kumaran: different areas, right? So one thing that we want to basically highlight is that everybody
85 00:10:59.890 ⇒ 00:11:03.849 Uttam Kumaran: can talk to each of these core parts of Omni.
86 00:11:03.990 ⇒ 00:11:07.959 Uttam Kumaran: And then everybody feels comfortable explaining
87 00:11:08.410 ⇒ 00:11:15.150 Uttam Kumaran: the success, like, kind of walk you through each part of the success criteria, and then the last piece is to do,
88 00:11:15.440 ⇒ 00:11:30.890 Uttam Kumaran: the 25-minute demo or so. So, ideally, for the next few weeks, I would like us to, at least for the first week, everybody is in Omni, everybody is kind of creating, dashboards and metrics based on data.
89 00:11:31.160 ⇒ 00:11:40.449 Uttam Kumaran: And honestly, like, it would be great if you… you can use the… you can basically use… there’s sample e-commerce data in there that you can leverage that’s pretty rich.
90 00:11:40.590 ⇒ 00:11:47.290 Uttam Kumaran: And then by sort of week two, by the end of that, I kind of want to make sure that everybody’s a little bit comfortable.
91 00:11:47.430 ⇒ 00:11:51.330 Uttam Kumaran: And some people maybe are already ready to take the certification assessment.
92 00:11:52.580 ⇒ 00:12:00.490 Uttam Kumaran: And then by… by the third week, third and fourth week, kind of want to make sure everyone is prepared and supported to do the demo.
93 00:12:00.610 ⇒ 00:12:06.860 Uttam Kumaran: I will do my best to kind of do a version of this, that way everybody has internal resources, but…
94 00:12:07.050 ⇒ 00:12:12.609 Uttam Kumaran: And we’ll make sure that I can walk through it, but there are examples here that are really great that I’ve watched.
95 00:12:13.010 ⇒ 00:12:17.360 Uttam Kumaran: Does that make sense?
96 00:12:17.820 ⇒ 00:12:23.069 Uttam Kumaran: And then, one other thing, Rico, is let’s also go ahead and we can create a Clockify
97 00:12:23.210 ⇒ 00:12:30.300 Uttam Kumaran: project for, maybe just, like, certifications.
98 00:12:30.410 ⇒ 00:12:36.489 Uttam Kumaran: Or we could just say learning and development in general, and so folks can… you can… whatever time you spend on this, you can book it there.
99 00:12:45.690 ⇒ 00:12:46.670 Uttam Kumaran: How do we feel?
100 00:12:47.720 ⇒ 00:12:59.390 Amber Lin: I feel pretty good. Would it be helpful if, when we’re learning this, there’s an output we’re trying to produce? For example, like, is there… if we try to produce a certain visualization using our…
101 00:12:59.540 ⇒ 00:13:04.689 Amber Lin: Like, my own data, like, that could be… that could be interesting or helpful.
102 00:13:06.230 ⇒ 00:13:10.610 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I guess maybe my only piece is that, like, our data doesn’t have, like.
103 00:13:11.470 ⇒ 00:13:18.039 Uttam Kumaran: it’s not exactly related to some of the stuff that’s coming from our client, so if you go into the Omni platform.
104 00:13:19.310 ⇒ 00:13:26.409 Uttam Kumaran: You’ll actually see that there is a,
105 00:13:27.420 ⇒ 00:13:31.500 Uttam Kumaran: They have, like, these other models in there with, like, e-commerce data.
106 00:13:32.250 ⇒ 00:13:34.960 Uttam Kumaran: That is actually, like, a little bit more rich.
107 00:13:35.360 ⇒ 00:13:36.630 Uttam Kumaran: So I would suggest.
108 00:13:36.630 ⇒ 00:13:37.050 Amber Lin: Hmm.
109 00:13:37.050 ⇒ 00:13:43.549 Uttam Kumaran: Using… Using that, it’s gonna be really easily… it’s gonna be all labeled and everything.
110 00:13:44.100 ⇒ 00:13:51.070 Uttam Kumaran: And so what we can do over the next few weeks is basically kind of, like, what I want to see is that,
111 00:13:51.750 ⇒ 00:13:55.560 Uttam Kumaran: We’re kind of… each of us is go… going through,
112 00:13:56.090 ⇒ 00:14:08.559 Uttam Kumaran: this list, and we’re kind of crossing off. So, in our meetings, I’ll sort of ask everyone, hey, does everyone feel comfortable with each of these? Are there topics here that anybody is confused with or hasn’t played around with?
113 00:14:08.680 ⇒ 00:14:12.849 Uttam Kumaran: Because, of course, Your demo’s gonna have to include each of these.
114 00:14:13.110 ⇒ 00:14:17.270 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s kind of, like, how I want to structure our conversations.
115 00:14:28.860 ⇒ 00:14:29.820 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
116 00:14:30.730 ⇒ 00:14:38.780 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, if nothing else, then yeah, we can sort of talk in Slack about a process there, and then… yeah, I’m excited. Like, I think if sort of this
117 00:14:38.920 ⇒ 00:14:49.689 Uttam Kumaran: certification process kind of works for everybody, then we can start to prioritize one or two of these a quarter. I know we have a little bit of a backlog of other certifications that we want to have everyone get, but…
118 00:14:49.820 ⇒ 00:14:51.330 Uttam Kumaran: I’m excited, because I think
119 00:14:51.490 ⇒ 00:14:55.939 Uttam Kumaran: This will give you a good understanding of, like, kind of a lot of different core concepts and data, so…
120 00:14:59.440 ⇒ 00:15:00.230 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
121 00:15:01.030 ⇒ 00:15:01.890 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
122 00:15:02.220 ⇒ 00:15:04.790 Uttam Kumaran: That’s all I had. Thanks, everyone.
123 00:15:05.020 ⇒ 00:15:05.750 Uttam Kumaran: Talk to you soon.
124 00:15:06.250 ⇒ 00:15:06.750 Amber Lin: Thanks.
125 00:15:08.500 ⇒ 00:15:09.060 Uttam Kumaran: Thank you.
126 00:15:09.060 ⇒ 00:15:09.670 Rico Rejoso: Cheers.