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March 2022

How to achieve adaptive height embedding with ThoughtSpot Everywhere

Embedding an iframe is a great option to embed content because of its security and performance features, but it can be tricky to get the right fit. Especially when we interact with them, or the user changes the browser viewport. Some of the most common issues include an additional or missing scroll bar or the modal windows opening inside the iframe without showing the center of the current viewport.

Enhance your analysis with new international Google Trends datasets in BigQuery

Sharing and exchanging data with other organizations is a critical element of any organization’s analytics strategy. In fact, BigQuery customers are already sharing data using our existing infrastructure, with over 4,500 customers swapping data across organizational boundaries. Creating seamless access to analytics workflows and insights has become that much easier with the introduction of Analytics Hub and surfacing datasets unique to Google.

The Usability of Dashboards (Part 1): Does Anyone Actually Use These Things?

Dashboards showing ever-increasing levels of information are more and more in demand, but perhaps less and less understood. In particular, application teams selling products are pushed by their customers to include “high-level overviews” and “real-time information” in their software. But do they use that information? How often? And what for? Sometimes a dashboard is a critical piece of software enabling near-instantaneous responses to extinction-level business catastrophes.

Do Data Companies Need Chief Ethics Officers?

Sometimes it takes a billion-dollar mistake to bring the murkier side of data ethics into sharp focus. Equifax found this out to their own cost in 2017 when they failed to protect the data of almost 150 million users globally. The catastrophic breach was bad enough on its own — but Equifax waited three months to go public with the news. As the public furore rose to a crescendo, the credit organization dragged its feet on disclosing exactly what kind of information had been leaked.

Ingesting Google Cloud Storage files to BigQuery using Cloud Functions and Serverless Spark

Apache Spark has become a popular platform as it can serve all of data engineering, data exploration, and machine learning use cases. However, Spark still requires the on-premises way of managing clusters and tuning infrastructure for each job.

Hybrid Data Cloud Success for State and Local Governments

State and local governments generate and store enormous amounts of data essential to their ability to deliver citizen services. But how can they capitalize on all of their data to become engines of growth and innovation, empowering and enhancing their ability to provide services and better serve their communities?

Introducing Talend Data Catalog 8, our most powerful governance solution ever

We’re thrilled to announce Talend Data Catalog 8, our most powerful data governance solution yet. Talend Data Catalog 8 builds on our strong foundation of metadata management and data cataloging capabilities to deliver what businesses need most: healthy data. At Talend, healthy data is data that supports business objectives, and is often the missing link between business success and failure.

How to Optimize NetSuite for Faster, Accurate Financial Reporting

Born and built in the cloud as an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, Oracle NetSuite enables organizations to create a unified view of their business. While it generates reports on enterprise performance, the platform wasn’t built to optimize the reporting process. For accounting and finance teams especially, the challenge makes it difficult to create flexible, customized financial reports.

The Best Integration Platform for Your Business

The crucial metrics for evaluating the best integration platform for businesses are: With the right integration platform in your hands, your IT environment will be faster, more efficient and better connected. However, finding the best integration platform for your businesses is no easy feat. There are many integration platform options for organizations with different needs, from small businesses to massive corporations.

SNCF: Getting the customer experience right

As a major railway operator, SNCF has a whole lot of data on its hands, including more than 50 million customer records. The first step in using that data more effectively was integrating and consolidating all of its diverse data sources and databases into a single Customer Platform. In this video, Yann Jourdain, CIO at SNCF Voyages, explains how he made it happen.

Drive Retail Profitability, Stability with Snowflake's Retail Data Cloud

In 2022, retailers are still dealing with the lasting impacts of the global pandemic, including a decreased workforce, supply chain disruptions, and surging inflation. At the same time, now is the chance for a “long overdue great retail reset” that could promote stability and profitability, according to a recent Deloitte report.

DataOps Observability Datasheet

Unravel’s AI-enabled full-stack observability for the modern data stack simplifies the way data teams monitor, observe, manage, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance and cost of large-scale data applications. Unravel also accelerates data migration to the cloud by providing a data-driven assessment plan to save time and cost while also enabling you to deploy effortlessly.

8 Great Product Integrations for Your E-Commerce Store

The eight best product integrations for e-commerce stores are: How can startups and entrepreneurs hope to compete with online business juggernauts such as Amazon and eBay? To give your online store the greatest shot at success, you’ll need to carefully consider your technology stack. The first step is likely selecting one of the most popular e-commerce platforms, such as Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, or WooCommerce.

ThoughtSpot named a Visionary in the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms

Today, Gartner has positioned ThoughtSpot as a Visionary in the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, a recognition that we are so excited to continue living up to for our customers.

Gain Business Value With Big Data AI Analytics

“Data-driven” is the latest buzzword in organizations in which data-based decision making is directly connected to business success. According to Gartner’s Hype Cycle, more than 77% of the C-suite now say data science is critical to their organization meeting strategic objectives. For top organizations looking to adopt a data-driven culture to stay competitive, what does that mean?

From Data to Value: Building a Scalable Data Platform with Google Cloud

At the DataOps Unleashed 2022 conference, Google Cloud’s Head of Product Management for Open Source Data Analytics Abhishek Kashyap discussed how businesses are using Google Cloud to build secure and scalable data platforms. This article summarizes key takeaways from his presentation, Building a Scalable Data Platform with Google Cloud. Data is the fuel that drives informed decision-making and digital transformation.

IPaaS: 3 Ways It Helps You Grow

An integration platform as a service (iPaaS) solution is a set of tools that help businesses integrate applications across environments and formats. While some companies have the resources to handle this integration themselves, an iPaaS solution is often able to handle things more efficiently while bringing in new features (like hands-on support) to ensure the solution is effective and affordable for the business.

Hevo Data Featured as a Leader in G2's Spring 2022 Report

The G2 Spring 2022 Grid Reports are out! We’re excited to announce that Hevo Data has been rated as a Leader in the categories – ETL Tools, Data Extraction, and Data Replication. Besides this, we have also received badges in numerous other categories, like Easiest To Use: Data Extraction and High Performer: E-commerce Data Integration, giving us a count of 17 badges in total and highlighting our strengths as a product. According to G2, 98% of our users have rated us 4 or 5-stars.

ChaosSearch Named in 2022 Gartner Market Guide for Analytics Query Accelerators

Last week, Gartner released their 2022 Gartner Market Guide for Analytics Query Accelerators (AQAs), which names ChaosSearch as a Representative Vendor. In this week’s blog, we share perspectives from both Gartner and ChaosSearch on the emerging AQA category that focuses on accelerating data lakes’ time to value. You’ll learn what AQAs are, their role in the enterprise tech stack, and how ChaosSearch differentiates itself from others in the segment.

Sales Compensation in a Consumption Pricing World

Today’s organizations want stronger alignment between the cost of SaaS solutions and the value derived from these products. As a result, many software companies are looking at adopting consumption-based pricing models as an alternative to subscription models. With consumption-based models, customers only pay for what they use, and usage is tied directly to the value customers derive. Of course, consumption means software companies don’t experience revenue until customers use the solution.

Explaining AUR: A Universal Retail Language

By tracking the average revenue per unit over a given period, AUR has become one of the most important metrics for e-commerce, department stores, and retailers of all sizes. Especially when compared with price intelligence, competitor sales, and other data, AUR helps retailers unlock crucial insights and even automate pricing strategies and inventory management, helping to drive more sales. Learn how Integrate.io can help you tap into metrics like AUR and how it can grow your business.

[DEMO] Bring data experts to solve data quality issues

Supporting data health is a team sport. In this video, learn how to engage all the data experts in your organization to fight bad quality data. Extend collaboration about data and enable self-service across your organization: Talend’s Data Inventory application enables your organization to easily collaborate across multiple business and technology functions and strengthen data integrity by centrally organizing datasets, consistently applying standardization rules and proactively correcting data errors.

Future of Data Meetup (2022): Using Apache Iceberg for Multi-Function Analytics in the Cloud

Iceberg is a high-performance table format intended for large-scale analytics that ensures easy accessibility of data stored in multiple file formats common in the Hadoop ecosystem for different use cases common in the lakehouse architecture. During this meetup, we’ll assume you’ve never heard of Apache Iceberg and explain the basics: what problems the Apache Iceberg project is addressing, how iceberg works, what features iceberg tables offer and how you can put Iceberg to use in your own data projects that utilize Hive, Spark, or Impala.

Building Production-Ready Machine Learning Features on Snowflake with Tecton's Feature Store

We are excited to announce the integration of Tecton’s enterprise feature store and Feast, the popular open source feature store, with Snowflake. The integration, available in preview to all Snowflake customers on AWS, will enable data teams to securely and reliably store, process, and manage the complete lifecycle of machine learning (ML) features for production in Snowflake. Tecton allows data teams to define features as code using Python and SQL.

Lower Privacy Risks and Transform Your Business with a Unified View of Data

It’s one thing to talk about orchestrating and automating your organization’s data operations. It is quite another to gain the confidence that comes with having a unified view of your data. This just-in-time view of the truth simultaneously reduces data privacy risk and enables your business to pursue data-driven goals.

What is the Shopify Tech Stack?

Shopify is a complete e-commerce platform that gives brands the ability to start, grow and manage their business. It is a subscription-based software that allows them to sell products through online stores and in physical locations using Shopify POS. Businesses of every size use the platform to unify their commerce into one command center and sell through multiple mediums like mobile, web, social media, pop-up shops, regular stores, online marketplaces and more.

How to Prepare Your Workforce For the Future Data-Driven Enterprise

The digital revolution has truly transformed modern organizations, embedding data and analytics in every business process and customer interaction. Advances in technology enable smart supply chains with predictive analytics, automated logistics for same-day delivery, and AI advisors that reduce medical errors. As this continues, workers in all roles will need new a new skill—data literacy—to collaborate with these systems and each other.

Cloud Integration 101

Businesses and organizations of all types have embraced cloud integration to transform data into business intelligence. The reason for this is simple: more and more business operations are happening in hybrid cloud — or even fully cloud-to-cloud – environments, and without proper tools to manage data in the cloud, data can become siloed, overlooked, or lost altogether.

Customer Journey KPIs You Must Know

The KPIs that apply to each product are as different as products come. There are infinite variables that come into play when determining what exactly a KPI should be. Because these KPIs are centered around customer journeys, they are all user-based and purposely omit technical-based KPIs (such as crashes or errors). In a recent article in our Product Analytics Academy, we covered what makes a strategy a good one when understanding and choosing relevant metrics to form KPIs based on product analytics.

How to Accelerate Value from Merger and Acquisition Strategies with Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented global economic landscape that is dominated by loose monetary policies, low borrowing costs and influx of capital in the equity markets. Against that backdrop, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) activity has surged since 2021 as companies are trying to take advantage of the current environment and adapt to the new business realities shaped by the global pandemic.

Using GeoJSON in BigQuery for geospatial analytics

The first step in most analytical workloads is to ingest the data that you need for your analysis into your data warehouse. For geospatial analysis involving point, line, or polygon data, ingesting data can be complex because geospatial data comes in myriad data formats. Two of the most popular geospatial formats are GeoJSON and GeoJSON-NL (newline-delimited geoJSON).

The Best E-Commerce Integrations

There are a wide variety of e-commerce software platforms out there—Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, Ecwid, and more—each with its own e-commerce features and functionality. But beyond the question of the "best e-commerce platforms," how can you enhance these platforms with third-party integrations? As we all know, integrating your e-commerce store with other apps and services helps you run your business more efficiently and effectively.

Overview of the Fall '21 release

Talend applies data health concepts across its platform to help everyone from business leaders to data professionals quickly realise value from their data by providing new service, product, and packaging innovations. Talend's latest release includes its first solution delivered *-as-a-service, new product capabilities to boost data professional productivity, and an industry-first packaging option that supports unlimited rows and unlimited users to provide unrivalled, predictable pricing and greater data cost control.

From Bricks and Mortar to Taps and Swipes, Accelerated Disruption in Banking Is Set to Continue

In 2019, global venture capital investment in Fintech totaled at least $33.9 Billion. For years, the incumbent players had been warning the sector that when the next recession hit, or when fintech faced a “real” crisis, that the sector would, at worst, collapse, and, at best, see a whole bevy of fintech players disappear

Top 12 Most Challenging Operational Reports

Today’s business leaders face an uncertain economic landscape. In the aftermath of unprecedented business disruption in 2020, organizational decision-makers are turning their focus to new concerns. According to McKinsey research, supply chain disruption, inflation, and a growing labor shortage are now top concerns for the C-suite.

Operational Efficiency with Talend Stitch? Best. Gift. Ever.

It’s the ultimate Catch-22. As businesses grow, executives need to keep a close watch on operations — but that growth itself can blur visibility. Multiple teams, data sources, and silos of information can create challenges in determining who is doing what, where inefficiencies exist, and what improvements should be made.

One Line Away from your Data

Data Science tools, algorithms, and practices are rapidly evolving to solve business problems on an unprecedented scale. This makes data science one of the most exciting fields to be in. As exciting as it is, practitioners face their fair share of challenges. There are well-known barriers that slow down predictive modeling or application development. Finding the right data and getting access to it are two of the top pain points we hear from our customers.

The Meaning and Definition of IPaaS

Our Five Key Points: As digital transformation becomes top priority to most businesses, more services and tools are going online. IPaaS meaning data integration platforms are one business solution that can help with data collation and analysis, for profit-boosting insights. But what is "iPaaS"? In this article, we'll examine the definition and meaning of "IPaaS." We'll also look at why you need to know about this acronym for your online business.

Tribalism May Just Be the Largest Reason For Misinformation - But Understanding It Is Essential To Dismantling It

I’ve been blogging for about a year about the power of misinformation and our obligations as data professionals to combat it. In a March 2021 blog post, titled “The Power of Misinformation,” I outlined some of our biological instincts that make us susceptible to misinformation and how tricksters exploit them.

3 E-commerce SaaS Products Your Online Business Needs

SaaS tools are more essential than ever in 2022, especially as more and more aspects of business become digital. Current forecasts show that the SaaS market is set to grow 21.7 percent in 2022. Software as a Service or SaaS means hosted solutions, IT support as standard, low maintenance and fewer requirements for in-house coding specialists. This is ideal for medium or small businesses that can’t afford huge onsite IT teams.

5 Reasons to Get Smart Why Bizview for Atlas

Time is Money, they say. And when you waste time on onerous menial tasks instead of improvements, you aren’t spending your time, or money, wisely. When it comes to planning and analysis, the role of financial professionals is to provide insights that helps shape the direction of the entire organization. However, many financial professionals feel that they spend too much time trying to find and connect data, rather than focusing on strategic insights.

What is the Best ETL Tool for Big Data Analysis?

When it comes to modern integration, the ETL or Extract, Transform, Load process serves as the backbone. Essentially, the ETL process works to efficiently migrate massive quantities of information or data into target data warehouses or data lakes. And with the ever-growing importance of data in business, handling and processing data efficiently is becoming far more important than ever.

Choosing an Analytical Cloud Data Platform [Webinar Recap]

Last week, ChaosSearch CTO & Head Scientist Thomas Hazel joined forces with Doug Henschen, VP & Principal Analyst of Constellation Research, to deliver a live webinar on “Choosing an Analytical Cloud Data Platform: Trends, Strategies, and Tech Considerations.” In this blog, we’re highlighting the deepest insights, the best advice, and the most actionable recommendations that emerged from the discussion.

Accelerate Agency Missions with Data in Motion

Data is the true currency of the digital age, and it plays an indispensable role in defining and accelerating the mission of Government agencies. Every level of government is awash in data (both structured and unstructured) that is perpetually in motion. It is constantly generated – and always growing in volume – by an ever-growing range of sources, from IoT sensors and other connected devices at the edge to web and social media to video and more.

The 7 Best E-Commerce Integrations and APIs

The seven best e-commerce APIs and integrations are: If you're just starting out with your e-commerce store, it can be difficult to know what the best e-commerce APIs, tools, and technologies your startup needs in order to begin. Running an e-commerce business requires a wide range of functionality beyond simply selling products from your storefront with your e-commerce platform.

4 Innovation-Boosting Features of Snowflake's New Healthcare & Life Sciences Data Cloud

A new study from McKinsey warns that profit pools in the healthcare industry are likely to be flat due to the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. To combat this stagnancy, the study identifies a number of opportunities for innovation in the industry.

3 Reasons Developers Need Turn-Key API Analytics

Savannah Whitman When your platform runs on APIs, all of those APIs need to run perfectly. Quickly resolving issues in your API isn’t just helpful, it’s mandatory. Latency and error monitoring are only the beginning: a healthy server isn’t the same thing as a healthy product. Resolving error cases and API abuse is easiest with full visibility into your API, which is where API analytics come in.

How Observe Built An Observability Platform On Snowflake.

The Observability Platform from Observe is a tool that helps engineers and DevOps teams quickly analyze the performance of and troubleshoot problems with an organization’s distributed applications. Its power comes from its ability to ingest any kind of telemetry and machine data–trace data, log data, metric data, billing data, and so on–into a single source using Snowflake, and then map the relationships between data sets. These relationships can be displayed graphically as an interactive visualization, making it easy for end users to trace connections between datasets in order to diagnose the cause of error notifications or gain insight into an application's performance.

Continual is SOC 2 compliant

Continual is proud to announce that we are now SOC 2 Type 1 certified and compliant and SOC 2 Type 2 in progress. This certification is a publicly visible milestone that demonstrates our core commitment to keeping your data secure. We expect to make additional announcements around our security certification efforts over the coming months. Beyond third party attestations, Continual is built from the ground up with data security and governance in mind.

DataOps for the Data-Driven

The road to the data-driven enterprise is not for the faint of heart. The continuous waves of data pounding into ever-complex hybrid environments only compound the ongoing challenges of management, governance, security, skills, and rising costs, to name a few. But Hitachi Vantara has developed a path forward that combines cloud-ready infrastructure, cloud consulting and managed services to optimize applications for resiliency and performance, and automated DataOps innovations.

Hitachi Vantara Launches Lumada Industrial DataOps for IIoT Scalability

Hitachi Vantara today announced the new Lumada Industrial DataOps portfolio with core IIoT platform framework capabilities. With this release, we are making it easier for organizations to take advantage of real-time insights and outcomes that can make critical operations more predictable and manageable. One of the highlights of this release is the introduction of IIoT Core software, which includes digital twins, ML (machine learning) service, and user interface components.

Magento 2 vs. Shopify Plus: How to Choose the Right Platform

The five critical differences between Magento 2 and Shopify Plus are: E-commerce stores have enough on their plate already — social media, SEO (search engine optimization), marketing, and more — without worrying about which e-commerce platform to choose. If you're looking for a complete e-commerce platform that can handle everything your business needs, Shopify is one of the best solutions out there — but it's not the only option.

5 Success Stories That Show the Value of Enterprise Public Cloud

In our Five Enterprise Public Cloud Use Cases That Make a Difference eBook, we detail the successes a handful of Cloudera customers have had with CDP. You can download the eBook to get the whole story on each of the five customers and their successes, but in the meantime we want to give you an overview of these success use cases. Use case #1: A biopharmaceutical company doubles its R&D productivity

Using Snowflake to Analyze Unstructured Data

Unstructured data stores a tremendous amount of information, but it is not easy to search, analyze, or query, especially on the fly— presenting more challenges to data architectures that are already complex. In this session, you will learn about Snowflake’s new support for unstructured data and how unstructured data can be used to analyze proprietary replay files for the Dota 2 video game. Dota 2 has a substantial esports presence and its developer hosts the world's largest endowed esports tournament.

How to Use and Interpret Google Analytics Time of Day Reports: Tips and Best Practices

The main ingredient of a successful business recipe is data. And what better way to obtain important data than by using Google Analytics. In the past, strategizing and updating content on your website required a ton of manpower and exceptional guessing abilities. Google Analytics has simplified this process by providing rock-solid data and removing the guess factor. This advanced tool has become one of the essential things that growing businesses simply have to incorporate.

4 pitfalls in your data strategy (and how to avoid them)

If you’re a data leader at an early-stage or high-growth company, you’re in a unique position to promote data appreciation. Don’t waste your golden window of opportunity. Take this moment to institute best practices, promote good habits, and build the foundation for a data-driven culture. There’s no universal data strategy that would work for all organizations — wouldn’t that be great? — but there are pitfalls that all organizations should watch out for.

What went wrong with customer 360

Three decades into the data revolution, my fellow technologists and I find ourselves asking an existential — and rather distressing — question: What happened to the promise of customer 360? The ability to get more customer data was supposed to fundamentally change the relationship between customers and brands. Companies were going to be able to offer targeted, meaningful engagements that would multiply average deal size and slash time to close.

How to Get Started With an E-Commerce Integration Platform

When getting started with an e-commerce integration platform, here's what you need to know: Whether you choose Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, or WooCommerce, your e-commerce platform generates massive amounts of customer data. By collecting and analyzing all this information, you can glean valuable insights that help you improve the customer experience on your e-commerce website.

Import Google Analytics 4 Data into Snowflake and Translate into SQL

Did you know that Google Analytics 4 now exports event data at the individual user level for free? In this episode of SnowFlake Bytes, Felipe Hoffa, Snowflake’s Data Cloud Advocate, shows you how to move this GA4 data into Snowflake and translate the sample queries into Snowflake SQL. His favorite part of the process? Creating a UDF that transforms the original schema nested data into a variant object that is easier to query.

Operational Reporting: Why the Struggle Is Real

Ask any craftsman the secret to excellence, and you will likely hear that, in addition to skill, the craftsman needs the right tools for the project. The same can be said for finance teams as they work on operational reporting. The most skilled finance professionals still need the right tools to get the job done well.

New Snowflake Features Released in February 2022

February brought a number of exciting enhancements, especially for customers building and running data pipelines in Snowflake, including support for Snowpark stored procedures and flexible task execution. Additionally, customers get improved impact analysis through support for object dependencies, and we continue to expand Snowflake’s global reach with the regional availability of UAE North (Dubai) on Azure. Read on for more!

The Ultimate Guide to E-commerce Integrations

Whether you use Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, WooCommerce or another option entirely, there's no shortage of eCommerce platforms for you to choose from. However, the platform itself isn't an all-in-one solution for your eCommerce business. Instead, you need to enhance the platform's functionality by integrating it with other applications and systems in your IT ecosystem.

Healthcare & Life Sciences Data Cloud

Healthcare and life sciences organizations are under unprecedented pressure to adapt and respond to changing patient needs and market conditions. The Healthcare & Life Sciences Data Cloud enables healthcare and life sciences organizations to leverage the full potential of data to help deliver exceptional patient outcomes and accelerate medical innovation, while also enabling the highest levels of data security, governance, and compliance.

Which Modern Data Architecture Should You Choose?

Understand the tradeoffs to make the best choice “Why are you still doing ETL pipelines?” “The Data Warehouse is the only way you can keep data quality high, despite the extra data modeling needed.” “Have you not heard of data mesh beforehand? It solves all centralization problems.” When it comes to data management, there are as many opinions as there are data managers. This is not to say there aren’t any good answers or right principles to follow.

New Features in Cloudera Streams Messaging for CDP Public Cloud 7.2.14

With the launch of CDP Public Cloud 7.2.14, Cloudera Streams Messaging for Data Hub deployments has gotten some powerful new features! In this release, the Streams Messaging templates in Data Hub will come with Apache Kafka 2.8 and Cruise Control 2.5 providing new core features and fixes. KConnect has been added and gains additional capabilities with new connectors and Stateless Apache NiFi capabilities which can run NiFi Flows as connectors.

The Ultimate Guide to Azure Synapse Analytics

Five things you should know about Azure Synapse Analytics: Azure Synapse Analytics is a scalable, cloud-based data warehousing solution from Microsoft. Upon its launch, Microsoft described it as “the next iteration of Azure SQL Data Warehouse.” In addition to offering all of the technology and features of that platform, Azure Synapse also incorporates business intelligence, data analytics, and machine learning tools for both relational and non-relational data.

Should You Choose Integrate.io or Glew.io?

Here are four differences between Integrate.io vs Glew.io: You already know the benefits of data analytics for your business. But how can you analyze data when it's spread across multiple siloed systems? Both Integrate.io and Glew.io let you move data from various places to one single location so you can make better business-related decisions. As a result, you can improve organizational decision-making and give your business a competitive edge. But which platform is better? Integrate.io or Glew.io?

Experiments - Building a Predictive analysis dashboard using Qlik Sense & Qlik AutoML

Combining descriptive analytics with predictive can enable organizations & Analysts to derive further value from their data. Join R&D Advocate, Dipankar in this tutorial where he guides how to build a dashboard with both historical data and predictions derived from Qlik AutoML.

OKR 101: An introduction to data-driven planning objectives and key results (OKRs)

OKRs have taken corporate planning by storm — and for good reason. As a system for organization-wide goal-setting, OKRs make executive KPIs tangible and actionable, not just for the leaders, but for everyone in the company. They have become increasingly common in all types of businesses because they are simple and effective. For the company’s data champion, they also offer an unparalleled opportunity to get everyone speaking a common language of metrics.

How Spanner and BigQuery work together to handle transactional and analytical workloads

As businesses scale to meet the demands of their customers, so do their need for efficient products to collect, manage and analyze data to meet their business goals. Whether you are building a multi-player game or a global e-commerce platform, it's critical to ensure that data can be stored and queried at scale with strong consistency and then processed for analysis to deliver real-time insights.

ArcGIS and BigQuery - a match made for geodata

Geographical data is one of the critical datasets for data-driven organizations to make informed business decisions. As the data is growing more than ever before, it’s becoming more challenging to manage and analyze mammoth datasets using traditional databases, this is true for geographical data as well as it requires significant computational power to process. Esri has been one of the leading companies in Geospatial software development since 1969.

Manage Your Amazon Redshift Data With Integrate.io

Amazon Redshift is one of the world’s most popular cloud data warehousing solutions. Along with other Amazon Web Services offerings, such as Amazon S3 and Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce), Redshift can help enhance your data workflows and manage your enterprise data. With the right expertise, Redshift can help you integrate all of your data sources, from operational databases and data lakes to third-party files and websites.

Orchestrating ML Pipelines at Scale with Kubeflow

Still waiting for ML training to be over? Tired of running experiments manually? Not sure how to reproduce results? Wasting too much of your time on devops and data wrangling? Spending lots of time tinkering around with data science is okay if you’re a hobbyist, but data science models are meant to be incorporated into real business applications. Businesses won’t invest in data science if they don’t see a positive ROI.

How Flywheel Software Is Helping Organizations Activate Customer Data On Snowflake

Flywheel Software provides enterprise sales and marketing teams with a fast, easy way to build customer segments using first-party data stored in Snowflake. Once built, those lists can be easily exported to a wide range of marketing tools, including Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Salesforce, MailChimp and more. Join Snowflake's Daniel Myers and Flywheel Software's Tameem Iftikhar & Christopher Sell for a lively discussion and demo showing how Snowflake and Flywheel Software work together to deliver this powerful and invaluable service.

What Are Feature Stores and Why Are They Critical for Scaling Data Science?

A feature store provides a single pane of glass for sharing all available features across the organization. When a data scientist starts a new project, he or she can go to this catalog and easily find the features they are looking for. But a feature store is not only a data layer; it is also a data transformation service enabling users to manipulate raw data and store it as features ready to be used by any machine learning model.

The Business Benefits of AI-Powered Analytics

Everyone from managers to C-suite executives wants information from analytics in order to make better decisions. Business analytics gives leaders the tools to transform a wealth of customer, operational, and product data into valuable insights that lead to agile decision-making and financial success. Traditional business intelligence and KPI dashboards have been popular solutions but they have their limitations.

Blend + Fivetran: How your customer success strategy can benefit from a data strategy

Data plays a crucial role in customer success. Blend's Sebastian Joll (Revenue Operations Leader) and William Tsu (Analytics Engineer, Revenue Operations) share how automating their data stack with Fivetran allows them to provide powerful, business-wide analysis.

Rush University Medical Center | How real-time data helps the fight against COVID-19

As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center looked to data as a way to deal with the increasing volume of patients and to keep pace with fast and accurate diagnoses. Struggling against time and the data insights front line medical workers needed, Rush needed a solution that matched the speed and ferocity of the pandemic.

Globe Telecom leverages data governance tools from Talend for heightened marketing performance

Globe Telecom, one of the largest providers of digital services in the Philippines, was operating in a saturated market with limited opportunity to expand. Any strategy for growth depended on nurturing customer relationships and fostering lifelong value with each customer. For Globe Telecom, getting customer data was never the problem — telecom companies produce terabytes of data every day.

Learn how to stream JSON data into BigQuery using the new BigQuery Storage Write API

The Google BigQuery Write API offers high-performance batching and streaming in one unified API. The previous post in this series introduced the BigQuery Write API. In this post, we'll show how to stream JSON data to BigQuery by using the Java client library.

Is Integrate.io or Daasity the Better Platform?

Data analytics helps you make better business decisions. However, keeping data in disparate systems will only complicate analysis. That's why you need a data integration platform like Integrate.io or Daasity. These tools help you move data from different places to one centralized location. The result? A single source of truth for all the data in your organization. But which platform should you invest in? Integrate.io or Daasity? Learn more below.

NN Investment Partners' Papyrus Team Delivers End-to-End Data Visualization with Snowflake's Data Cloud

Marcel Naumann, Senior Engineer Investment at NN Investment Partners, sees a future where fluid, easily accessible data and insights help portfolio managers achieve returns while investing in a responsible manner. We spoke with Naumann to learn how he’s making this future a reality with the Snowflake Data Cloud. NN Investment Partners (NN IP) manages assets for investors across 37 nations.

How to Track Website Sessions by Email Source | Data Snack #13 | Hubspot Marketing & Databox

With so much time and energy that goes into building our email lists (and we all know that building a lead-gen strategy is not for the faint of heart), it’s important that the emails themselves are holding up their end of the deal. We’ve got a brand new episode of Data Snacks to show you an easy way to track, analyze, and report on just that. If you want to understand…

From cost to profit center: How to transform customer 360 investments

To IT leaders, it’s obvious that data strategy deserves a special place at the table for any discussion about strategic business initiatives. However, for CMOs and CROs like myself, who must justify and weigh expenditures against bottom line impact, investing in customer data typically looks like a red-ink proposition.

Building Iterable's Data Mesh Using Snowflake: Three Components of an Innovative Data Management Strategy

Big data has been revolutionizing the digital marketing landscape: organizations are gathering data from numerous sources; data streams are being collected at unparalleled speeds; and businesses are dealing with a variety of data structures, from emails to user behaviors to financial transactions.

AstraZeneca is moving to the cloud (AWS) with Talend

In 2015, AstraZeneca made the decision to be cloud-first for their data architecture. In this video, 3 project stakeholders at AstraZeneca (Data and Analytics director, Finance data hub platform lead, and data engineering director) explains their data architecture choices and details what the business transformation entailed.

The Lost Art of Questioning

Asking the right questions of your data and knowing what you are looking to find is a critical component for gaining insights from your data that drive specific actions. Data is not black and white; there is so much you can do with it. Accordingly, two people with the same data can come up with very different insights. This is because so much depends on the specific problem to be solved and the approach you take to solve it.

Understanding OLAP Cubes - A guide for the perplexed

Companies move as fast as their slowest insight. In the era of big data, information is often produced faster than it can be consolidated and analyzed throughout the Enterprise. Analysts battle for the limited engineering resources, so they can construct data sets for their analytics endeavors to ultimately provide insights to fast-growing enterprises.

Integration Platforms for E-Commerce Businesses

The Top 5 Takeaways: Maybe your primary focus is online retail. Maybe you just have a small digital store selling merchandise relating to your main business concerns. Whatever the size of your e-commerce venture, integrating your systems and data is vital. You’re probably already dealing with a number of different platforms and SaaS providers, integrating with their APIs and their services to help run your business more smoothly.

Forrester study reveals how much you really win by using ThoughtSpot

Tell us if this analytics scenario sounds familiar: your organization employs an analyst team that uses old technology, desktop data visualization tools, or homegrown reporting systems to manually build out static dashboards and multiple weekly or monthly reports. As a result, the data analysts have to manually generate and update business reports regularly, and teams cannot keep up. In turn, the rest of the organization is unable to make timely business decisions.

Feature Engineering for Modern Data Teams

Feature engineering is a crucial part of any ML workflow. At Continual, we believe that it is actually the most impactful part of the ML process and the one that should have the most human intervention applied to it. However, in ML literature, the term is often overloaded among several different topics, and we wanted to provide a bit of guidance for users of Continual in navigating this concept.

Excellence in Project Intelligence: Increase efficiency and boost ROI with Insightsoftware and Deltek

Our valued partner, Deltek is a leading provider of software and information solutions for project-based businesses. Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, the company leverages its expertise to maximize efficiency and revenue for clients through project intelligence, management, and collaboration.

FinTech Companies Thrive and Innovate with ChaosSearch

ChaosSearch addresses critical pain points and overcomes core operational challenges for FinTech companies, allowing them to accelerate application development and streamline their operations in the cloud. The ChaosSearch data lake platform delivers search and relational analytics at scale directly in Amazon S3, with no data movement, no ETL process, and zero administrative overhead.

5 Ways to Increase E-Commerce Sales

According to Statista, global e-commerce sales were worth $4.9 trillion in 2021. With that figure set to increase by 50% over the next 4 years, ensuring customer loyalty is critical. A high repeat purchase rate is key to the success of any e-commerce business. Fortunately, it’s also one of the easiest metrics to track and improve upon.

Three Venture Capitalists Weigh In on the State of DataOps 2022

The keynote presentation at DataOps Unleashed 2022 featured a roundtable panel discussion on the State of DataOps and the Modern Data Stack. Moderated by Unravel Data Co-Founder and CEO Kunal Agarwal, this session features insights from three investors who have a unique vantage point on what’s changing and emerging in the modern data world, the effects of these changes, and the opportunities being created.

DBS Bank Goes "Beyond Observability" for DataOps

At the DataOps Unleashed 2022 conference, Luis Carlos Cruz Huertas, Head of Technology Infrastructure & Automation at DBS Bank, discussed how the bank has developed a framework whereby they translate millions of telemetry data points into actionable recommendations and even self-healing capabilities.

4 Types and 20 Examples of Survey Questions to Ask Your Customers and Improve Your App

You have dedicated tons of man-hours to building your product and strengthening your service. You are trying to ensure that your application is useful but, above all, that it succeeds at making users come back for more. But then, *gasp*, they don’t! Why? What went wrong? How can you get them to come back?

Ultimate Guide to ESG Reporting

In recent years, investors have been placing an increased emphasis on a range of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues resulting in ESG reporting becoming more important. These issues are garnering more attention from legislators and regulators from around the world. As a result, there are more demands on companies to report on their activities and practices and how they impact environmental and social sustainability.

Memory Optimizations for Analytic Queries in Cloudera Data Warehouse

Apache Impala is used today by over 1,000 customers to power their analytics in on premise as well as cloud-based deployments. Large user communities of analysts and developers benefit from Impala’s fast query execution, helping them get their work done more effectively. For these users performance and concurrency are always top of mind.

Manage the Demand of Stress Testing in Financial Services

Risk management is a highly dynamic discipline these days. Stress testing is a particular area that has become even more important throughout the pandemic. Stress tests conducted by authorities such as the Federal Reserve Bank in the US are designed to keenly monitor the financial stability of the banking sector, especially during economic downturns such as those brought on by the pandemic.

Democratizing Data Apps - Snowflake to Acquire Streamlit

Over the past few years, we’ve seen incredible growth in the number of data apps being built on Snowflake, including large customer-facing apps from companies such as BlackRock, Instacart, Lacework, and others. We’re proud of the fact that our platform helps developers bring these applications to life faster, scale better, and provide more powerful insights to their users, whether they be employees, partners, or customers.

Snowflake Announces Intent To Acquire Streamlit

Hear from Snowflake co-founder and President of Products Benoit Dageville and AdrienTreuille co-founder and CEO of Streamlit as they discuss what this strategic acquisition means to developers and data scientists. The two companies will join forces to unlock the unrealized potential of data by making it easier to build beautiful applications using tools they love with simplified data access and governance.

Founder's Guide to Setting Up a Data Analytics Foundation

Business metrics guide founders and decision-makers to make the right call to push their ventures towards their goals. In the initial launch of a startup, the focus tends to be on revenue and profits. However, if a startup wants to scale up, it is important to broaden what metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) are monitored at each stage, so they can grow the business by using data instead of just intuition.

Producing Protobuf data to Kafka

Until recently, teams were building a small handful of Kafka streaming applications. They were usually associated with Big Data workloads (analytics, data science etc.), and data serialization would typically be in AVRO or JSON. Now a wider set of engineering teams are building entire software products with microservices decoupled through Kafka. Many teams have adopted Google Protobuf as their serialization, partly due to its use in gRPC.

What is AUR and How Can It Help You Power Your E-Commerce Business?

What is AUR? The five most important things to know are: E-commerce stores such as Amazon have revolutionized the field of online shopping. But whether you're a massive online store or a small business owner, you need to keep track of your company's metrics and KPIs (key performance indicators) to evaluate the success of your business model.

Announcing the Unravel Winter Release

Today, we’re excited to announce the Unravel Winter Release ! This winter release introduces major enhancements and improvements across the platform, including comprehensive cost management for Databricks, support for Delta Lake on Databricks, data observability for Google BigQuery, interactive pre-check before installation and upgrade.

What is data integration (with 5 use cases)

Data integration is the data engineering process of combining data from disparate sources into a single unified view of the data. The process begins with data ingestion from different source systems. This includes data extraction from disparate sources, data transformations or cleaning, and loading the data into a single repository - anything from Excel data sets to Enterprise data stores.

SaaS in 60 - Webhook filters, multi-sheet subscriptions and more!

We have enabled all Qlik Application Automation users the ability to trigger workflows via Qlik Cloud Services webhooks….and with a finer level of control. IN addition there is a new connector for Microsoft SharePoint, offering another cloud storage option for workflow integration and file management With our self-service reporting via subscription you can schedule document delivery of your most important insights directly to your inbox – now with the ability to add multiple sheets to your subscription.