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April 2024

InsightSoftware

Exposed: How Secure Are Your Embedded Analytics Really?

Apr 30, 2024 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
The ever-growing threat landscape of hackers, cyberattacks, and data breaches makes data security a top priority, especially when integrating analytics capabilities directly into customer-facing applications. To make informed decisions, it’s crucial to understand how embedded analytics platforms function from a security standpoint.
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InsightSoftware

Logi Symphony Has You Prepared for New Cookie Restrictions

Apr 30, 2024 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
Embedding analytics into your application? New browser restrictions are on the way for Google Chrome that can block some third-party content that uses cookies from being accessible to users by default, in addition to restrictions in Safari and Firefox you may have already seen.
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astera

What is Data Preprocessing? Definition, Importance, and Steps

Apr 30, 2024 By Fasih Khan In Astera
Did you know data scientists spend around 60% of their time preprocessing data? Data preprocessing plays a critical role in enhancing the reliability and accuracy of analytics. This blog will discuss why data preprocessing is essential for making data suitable for comprehensive analysis.
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astera

Data Integrity vs. Data Quality: Here's How They Are Different

Apr 30, 2024 By Zoha Shakoor In Astera
Data integrity refers to protecting data from anything that can harm or corrupt it, whereas data quality checks if the data is helpful for its intended purpose. Data quality is a subset of data integrity. One can have accurate, consistent, and error-free data, but it is only helpful once we have the supporting information for this data. Data integrity and quality are sometimes used interchangeably in data management, but they have different implications and distinct roles in enhancing data usability.
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snowflake

How the EU's Digital Operations Resilience Act (DORA) Aims To Strengthen Operational Resilience in Financial Services

Apr 29, 2024 By Rinesh Patel In Snowflake
As the cybersecurity threat landscape continues to evolve globally, organizations operating in the financial sector are seeing regulations shift to address the associated risks, and none may prove more impactful than the European Union’s (EU) Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). This regulation aims to strengthen the operational resilience of financial entities (FEs), and their third-party information and communication technology (ICT) providers.
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astera

How to Build a Data Governance Strategy for Your Organization

Apr 29, 2024 By Aisha Shahid In Astera
An effective data governance strategy is crucial to manage and oversee data effectively, especially as data becomes more critical and technologies evolve. This strategic approach to data governance aligns with findings from a McKinsey survey, suggesting that companies with solid data governance strategies are twice as likely to prioritize important data — leading to better decision-making and organizational success.
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Hands-on Demo: Enterprise ELT Tailored for Heavy Workloads

Apr 29, 2024 By Hevo In Hevo
As organizations scale, data systems often don’t scale perfectly along with them. Data silos, data quality, and tedious technical maintenance - these are just some of the obstacles that enterprise data teams grapple with. In this webinar, Cade Winter, Director of Solutions Engineering at Hevo Data explores the advantages that a cloud-based SaaS approach can provide for large datasets, and how exactly you can implement one to handle your enterprise ELT effectively.
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Analyze audio in BigQuery with Speech-to-Text

Apr 27, 2024 By Google BigQuery In Google BigQuery
Unlock the power of your audio data! This video demonstrates how BigQuery's integration with Cloud Speech-to-Text lets you transform audio files – think customer calls, interviews, feedback – into structured text transcripts. Analyze this data at scale within your data warehouse, fueling smarter decisions and deeper customer understanding.
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lenses

UI-driven GitOps: Opening up Kafka without giving up governance

Apr 26, 2024 By Andrew Stevenson In Lenses
As Kafka evolves in your business, adopting best practices becomes a must. The GitOps methodology makes sure deployments match intended outcomes, anchored by a single source of truth. When integrating Apache Kafka with GitOps, many will think of Strimzi. Strimzi uses the Operator pattern for synchronization. This approach, whilst effective, primarily caters to Kubernetes-based Kafka resources (e.g. Topics). But this isn’t ideal.
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Analyze documents in BigQuery with Document AI

Apr 26, 2024 By Google BigQuery In Google BigQuery
Turn your documents into actionable data! This video explores the power of BigQuery's integration with Document AI. Learn how to transform unstructured documents – think invoices, contracts, forms – into neatly structured tables within your data warehouse, unlocking smarter insights using familiar SQL syntax.
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Cloudera Observability - Expedited Issue Resolution

Apr 26, 2024 By Cloudera In Cloudera
We have bundled the collective Cloudera support teams, implementation skill and experience into our Observability platform resulting in our framework called validations. This framework offers a clear and detailed view of potential issues within your Cloudera Environment enabling you to fix it internally. Based on years of Cloudera support experience, we identified over 400 and growing issues our customers have encountered frequently, and provide remedies. This framework also provides detailed information to provide to our support team should this issue require a more complex solution.
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A New Approach to Data Protection and Cyber Resilience

Apr 26, 2024 By Hitachi Vantara In Hitachi Vantara
The relentless push for business and digital transformation has put data at the forefront of organizational success. However, the ever-increasing volume and complexity of safeguarding data pose significant challenges. Building an unbreakable data infrastructure is a complex challenge. How do you know what’s good enough when building data infrastructure? This video explores a new approach to data protection and cyber resiliency in securing your most valuable asset.
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chaossearch

Inside the Modern Data Analytics Stack

Apr 25, 2024 By Greg Goldsmith In ChaosSearch
Data analytics is nothing new. For decades, businesses have been deploying a "stack" of data analytics tools to collect, transform, evaluate and report on data. However, as data has grown larger in volume, and as the ability to analyze data quickly and accurately has become ever-more important to business success, the data analytics stacks that businesses depend on have evolved significantly. So, if you haven't taken a look at data analytics stacks recently, they're worth revisiting.
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integrate

Key Takeaways From Speaking With 40+ Employee Benefits Experts

Apr 25, 2024 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
The buzz around digital transformation and the shift toward an API-first approach is prevalent in today’s Employee Benefits industry. However, after engaging in over 30 detailed conversations with industry professionals over the last three months, it has become clear that the reality on the ground diverges significantly from the prevailing discourse. Throughout 2023, I observed a notable increase in the number of companies within the Benefits space using our integration platform.
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InsightSoftware

3 Ways Logi Symphony Leverages AI for Actionable Insights

Apr 25, 2024 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
Table of Contents April 25, 2024 insightsoftware is a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions, empowering organizations to unlock business data and transform the way finance and data teams operate. In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your data analysis?
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Snowflake: Accelerate innovation and productivity with data observability and FinOps

Apr 25, 2024 By Unravel In Unravel
Right now, 55% of companies surveyed are failing to achieve time to value with their data and AI investments. Why? They don’t have the staff, their skilled engineers spend too much time doing toilsome work, and optimizing data workloads for performance and efficiency. With this in mind, Unravel is hosting a live event to share a new IDC Analyst Brief about the role of data observability and optimization to enable AI-driven innovation and share how you can leverage Unravel to achieve productivity, performance, and cost efficiency for Snowflake.
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BigQuery vector search and embedding generation

Apr 25, 2024 By Google BigQuery In Google BigQuery
Discover the power of semantic search! With BigQuery's vector search capabilities, you can analyze unstructured data like text, images, and videos based on their underlying meaning. Explore how machine learning transforms your data into numerical representations called embeddings, making it possible to find connections that traditional keyword searches often miss.
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Episode 7: How to turn data silos into a center of excellence | Trellix

Apr 25, 2024 By Fivetran In Fivetran
In this episode of the Fivetran Data Podcast, Frank Carotenuto, Senior Director of Enterprise Data Platforms at Trellix, shares his experience leading the organization’s migration to a single data platform from multiple, siloed data marts. His efforts resulted in a new team structure, modern data architecture and a cross-functional center of excellence.
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astera

Modernizing Higher Education Curriculum Planning with Astera's Data Solutions and Governance

Apr 24, 2024 By Zoha Shakoor In Astera
A 2021 Educase report shows that 75% of surveyed institutions have started or are planning extensive digital transformation strategies to improve their data utilization. The importance of a strategic approach to data utilization in this context cannot be overstated. Effective data management frameworks ensure that data across the institution is accurate, consistent, and used in alignment with internal policies and external regulations.
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snowflake

Snowflake Arctic: The Best LLM for Enterprise AI - Efficiently Intelligent, Truly Open

Apr 24, 2024 By Snowflake AI Research In Snowflake
Building top-tier enterprise-grade intelligence using LLMs has traditionally been prohibitively expensive and resource-hungry, and often costs tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. As researchers, we have grappled with the constraints of efficiently training and inferencing LLMs for years.
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iguazio

Integrating LLMs with Traditional ML: How, Why & Use Cases

Apr 24, 2024 By Nick Schenone In Iguazio
Ever since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, organizations have been trying to find new and innovative ways to leverage gen AI to drive organizational growth. LLM capabilities like contextual understanding and response to natural language prompts enable the development of applications like automated AI chatbots, smart call center apps, or for financial services.
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Streamlining Financial Reports with Spreadsheet Server's GXC Formula

Apr 24, 2024 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
If you've ever needed to retrieve a single text description in Excel for your financial reports, the GXC formula is your go-to solution. In this video, we'll guide you through the process of creating and modifying a GXC formula, demonstrating how it can seamlessly integrate with GXL formulas to provide specific account segment descriptions. Learn how to set up cell references for dynamic updates, ensuring that your account descriptions automatically update when account numbers change.
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astera

What is Metadata Governance?

Apr 23, 2024 By Zoha Shakoor In Astera
Metadata governance is the systematic approach to managing metadata, or data about data, to ensure it is accurate, consistently formatted, and securely stored. The main goal of metadata governance is to improve data quality, ensure data privacy, and streamline metadata management. As metadata provides the necessary details about data, such as when it was created, by whom, and its content or purpose, it becomes easier for employees to find, understand, and trust the data they use.
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astera

7 Data Quality Metrics to Assess Your Data Health

Apr 23, 2024 By Aisha Shahid In Astera
No matter their size, all organizations rely heavily on the data they collect and manage. This data ranges from customer information to sales records, employee performance, and more. However, if this data is inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete, it becomes more of a liability than an asset, making it more important to measure its health. To do so, they need data quality metrics relevant to their specific needs.
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InsightSoftware

Learning Qlik Sense: Top Tips for Getting Started with Qlik

Apr 23, 2024 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
Table of Contents April 23, 2024 insightsoftware is a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions, empowering organizations to unlock business data and transform the way finance and data teams operate. You’ve just decided to start using Qlik within your team. Amazing!
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yellowfin

3 Key Drivers and Considerations for AI Analytics in 2024

Apr 23, 2024 By Yellowfin Team In Yellowfin
For independent software vendors (ISVs), creating unique differentiators and value increasingly entails adopting the latest technologies to enhance your product experience, especially in an ever-evolving competitive landscape with multiple new tech solutions. AI analytics is the latest emerging field in business intelligence (BI) solutions that offers new sophisticated capabilities for the user experience (UX) of your product’s analytics component.
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Metric Insights by Databox - Unlock Your Metrics Potential

Apr 23, 2024 By Databox In Databox
Metric Insights is your new central hub for all things metric performance, helping you to unlock your metrics potential. Regardless of your role, chances are you’re keeping a close eye on a handful of key metrics. Sometimes, that means taking a closer look at a specific metric to help you improve it. Metric Insights can help you do that.
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hitachi vantara

Hitachi Vantara Unveils Inaugural Sustainability Report, Reinforcing Key Sustainability Credentials and Commitments

Apr 22, 2024 By Hitachi Vantara In Hitachi Vantara
Report highlights the company's position as market leader in digital infrastructure sustainability innovation, and reinforces commitment to responsible business practices, people, and planet.
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databox

New in Databox: Analyze The Performance of Any Metric or KPI With Metric Insights

Apr 22, 2024 By Databox In Databox
Whether you’re a leader, manager, or individual contributor, chances are you need to keep a close eye on a handful of key metrics. If you’re the Sales leader, it might be KPIs like Leads, SQLs, and Close Rate. If you’re running paid ads, it might be Total Ad Spend or Cost Per Conversion. Of course, you can view these metrics on dashboards and get updates through automated reports.
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snowflake

Magnite's Seamless Petabyte Scale Cross-Region Migration with Snowgrid

Apr 22, 2024 By Snowflake In Snowflake
Magnite stands as the largest independent sell-side advertising platform, providing an essential bridge between publishers and advertisers. At its core, Magnite streamlines the advertising process, facilitating the buying and selling of advertising space across various channels, including connected TV (CTV), mobile, and desktop environments.
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astera

Improving Healthcare Data Governance and Integration with Astera

Apr 22, 2024 By Zoha Shakoor In Astera
One of the key processes in healthcare data management is integrating data from many patient information sources into a centralized repository. This data comes from various sources, ranging from electronic health records (EHRs) and diagnostic reports to patient feedback and insurance details.
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Snowflake Horizon Demo for Security Admins

Apr 22, 2024 By Snowflake In Snowflake
In this demo targeted at security admins, Ravi Kumar, Senior Partner Sales Engineer at Snowflake, demonstrates how to govern and discover data, apps, and more in Snowflake Horizon. Learn and try the core capabilities of Snowflake Horizon, such as using the Trust Center to discover security risks with recommendations to resolve them.
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Streamlining Financial Reporting with Spreadsheet Server's GXE Formulas Tutorial

Apr 22, 2024 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
If you've ever needed to retrieve a single text description in Excel for your financial reports, the GXE formula is your go-to solution. In this video, we'll guide you through the process of creating and modifying a GXE formula, demonstrating how it can seamlessly integrate with GXL formulas to provide specific account segment descriptions. Learn how to set up cell references for dynamic updates, ensuring that your account descriptions automatically update when account numbers change.
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How to Create a Collapsible Filter Panel - Do More with Qlik

Apr 22, 2024 By Qlik In Qlik
In my last blog / video. I showed you how to easily create visual buttons to apply selections and change their visual selection state so they can appear enabled or disabled (selected, not-selected). In this video I'll show you how to setup a filter panel using buttons and the layout container to create a simple collapsible filter panel that is both esthetic and functional while also providing real estate for your dashboard objects.
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InsightSoftware

How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Apr 19, 2024 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
April 19, 2024 insightsoftware is a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions, empowering organizations to unlock business data and transform the way finance and data teams operate. Companies that offer products to their customers demand analytics, all while juggling multiple priorities. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), unwavering security of their data, and access to advanced analytics capabilities.
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astera

Exploring the Connection Between Data Governance and Data Quality

Apr 19, 2024 By Aisha Shahid In Astera
Data governance and data quality are closely related, but different concepts. The major difference lies in their respective objectives within an organization’s data management framework. Data quality is primarily concerned with the data’s condition. It ensures the data is complete, accurate, reliable, and consistent. On the other hand, data governance refers is the overall management, maintaining compliance, and ensuring the security of data assets within an organization.
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hitachi vantara

Capturing the opportunity of AI while keeping an eye on sustainability with STaaS

Apr 19, 2024 By Hitachi Vantara In Hitachi Vantara
The ever-growing tide of data, fueled by analytics and AI, places a significant strain on data center resources and increases energy consumption. With more stakeholder scrutiny and evolving regulations, such as the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and U.S. regulations on the horizon, organizations are taking notice now more than ever before. As a result, organizations are prioritizing sustainability in their IT strategies.
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Cloudera Observability - Financial Governance

Apr 19, 2024 By Cloudera In Cloudera
Managing and forecasting cluster resource consumption costs is a complex task. Inefficient resource allocations and usage can lead to budget overruns and unexpected expenses. The challenge lies in gaining comprehensive insights into your resource consumption across different regions, departments, and user groups. It's also crucial for accurate financial planning. Cloudera Observability provides powerful financial governance capabilities to tackle these challenges effectively by providing unparalleled insight and control over your resource consumption and costs.
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cloudera

A Look Back at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit

Apr 18, 2024 By David Dichmann In Cloudera
Artificial intelligence (AI) is something that, by its very nature, can be surrounded by a sea of skepticism but also excitement and optimism when it comes to harnessing its power. With the arrival of the latest AI-powered technologies like large language models (LLMs) and generative AI (GenAI), there’s a vast amount of opportunities for innovation, growth, and improved business outcomes right around the corner. All of that technology, though, depends on data to be successful.
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qlik

Introducing Qlik's AI Accelerator - Delivering Tangible Customer Outcomes in Generative AI Integration

Apr 18, 2024 By Christopher Kerr In Qlik
At Qlik, we're witnessing a thrilling shift in the landscape of data analysis, customer engagement, and decision-making processes, all thanks to the advent of generative AI, especially Large Language Models (LLMs). The potential for transformation across all sectors is enormous, but the journey toward integration can be daunting for many businesses with many leaders wondering where to start in integrating the exciting capabilities of AI into their daily workflows.
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snowflake

How to Navigate the Costs of Legacy SIEMs with Snowflake

Apr 18, 2024 By John Bland In Snowflake
Legacy security information and event management (SIEM) solutions, like Splunk, are powerful tools for managing and analyzing machine-generated data. They have become indispensable for organizations worldwide, particularly for security teams. But as much as security operation center (SOC) analysts have come to rely on solutions like Splunk, there is one complaint that comes up for some: Costs can quickly add up.
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confluent

Kafka-docker-composer: A Simple Tool to Create a docker-compose.yml File for Failover Testing

Apr 18, 2024 By Sven Erik Knop In Confluent
Confluent has published official Docker containers for many years. They are the basis for deploying a cluster in Kubernetes using Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK), and one of the underpinning technologies behind Confluent Cloud. For testing, containers are convenient for quickly spinning up a local cluster with all the components required, such as Confluent Schema Registry or Confluent Control Center.
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astera

Data Governance Framework: What is it? Importance, Pillars and Best Practices

Apr 18, 2024 By Mariam Anwar In Astera
Data forms the foundation of the modern insurance industry, where every operation relies on digitized systems, including risk assessment, policy underwriting, customer service, and regulatory compliance. Given this reliance, insurance companies must process and manage data effectively to gain valuable insight, mitigate risks, and streamline operations.
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How Material Security Protects The Privacy The Productivity Suite

Apr 18, 2024 By Snowflake In Snowflake
Abhishek Agrawal, Co-founder and CEO of Material Security, chats with "Powered by Snowflake" host Phoebe He about his company's mission to protect the productivity suite, namely Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Its customer base crosses all industries as well as customers of all sizes. The conversation includes a demo of the platform that shows how to set up the solution and the kind of reports it generates for an organization's security team. It also covers how the solution accounts for organization's who have employees working from home and who use their mobile phones to conduct business communications.
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Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) vs Request/Response (RR)

Apr 18, 2024 By Confluent In Confluent
In this video, Adam Bellemare compares and contrasts Event-Driven and Request-Driven Architectures to give you a better idea of the tradeoffs and benefits involved with each. Many developers start in the synchronous request-response (RR) world, using REST and RPC to build inter-service communications. But tight service-to-service coupling, scalability, fan-out sensitivity, and data access issues can still remain.
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How Snowflake Powers The Next Generation Of Cybersecurity Applications

Apr 18, 2024 By Snowflake In Snowflake
Cybersecurity is extremely data-intensive and complex. Top cybersecurity companies such as Lacework, Sophos, Panther, Hunters, Auditboard, Orca Security, and Dassana leverage Snowflake to provide out-of-the-box solutions. These companies are building the next generation of cybersecurity applications by harnessing the power of the Snowflake Data Cloud to provide differentiated product capabilities to security teams.
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thoughtspot

Embedded analytics in the age of generative AI

Apr 17, 2024 By Vijay Venugopal In ThoughtSpot
Every company around the globe is trying to get in on the GenAI wave to simplify user experiences with natural language. And this is especially true in the realm of data and analytics. Imagine if you could enable all of your marketers to evaluate the performance of their campaigns with a simple question? Or, if you could provide all of your insurance risk managers with the ability to analyze the risk profile of their claims with the power of search and automated insights?
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snowflake

Snowflake's New Python API Empowers Data Engineers to Build Modern Data Pipelines with Ease

Apr 17, 2024 By Anurag Gupta In Snowflake
In today’s data-driven world, developer productivity is essential for organizations to build effective and reliable products, accelerate time to value, and fuel ongoing innovation. To deliver on these goals, developers must have the ability to manipulate and analyze information efficiently. Yet while SQL applications have long served as the gateway to access and manage data, Python has become the language of choice for most data teams, creating a disconnect.
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hitachi vantara

Turbocharging Your Business with (Gen)AI

Apr 17, 2024 By Bharti Patel In Hitachi Vantara
If you were to stop someone walking down the street and ask them how long artificial intelligence, or AI, has been a hot topic, they might say it’s something that’s emerged mostly in recent years. But AI has been around for a long time, with the term first being coined as long ago as 1955. Generative AI however is a different beast, and one that's largely responsible for moving the topic of AI to the tip of everyone’s tongues – from consumers to enterprises alike.
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How to Create Visual Button Selection States - Do More with Qlik

Apr 17, 2024 By Qlik In Qlik
Ever wonder how those Qlik experts make those awesome interactive dashboards? It is easier than you think. Check out this video that quickly shows you how to create custom beautiful buttons to apply selections and visually represent an active or non-active selection state. Allowing users just another way to analyze data in a way that is easy and familiar.
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Confluent Connectors | Fast, frictionless, and secure Apache Kafka integrations

Apr 17, 2024 By Confluent In Confluent
Every company faces the perennial problem of data integration but often experiences data silos, data quality issues, and data loss from point-to-point, batch-based integrations. Connectors decouple data sources and sinks through Apache Kafka, simplifying your architecture while providing flexibility, resiliency, and reliability at a massive scale.
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confluent

Confluent Announces Accelerate with Confluent, a Revamped and Services-Led Partner Program for System Integrators

Apr 16, 2024 By Confluent In Confluent
Reimagined partner program will better enable SIs to drive growth and profitability, while helping customers realise their full potential with data streaming.
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hitachi vantara

Hitachi Vantara Announces Availability of Virtual Storage Platform One, Providing the Data Foundation for Unified Hybrid Cloud Storage

Apr 16, 2024 By Hitachi Vantara In Hitachi Vantara
Unbreakable hybrid cloud platform seamlessly integrates structured and unstructured data, redefining data management efficiency and flexibility for enterprises.
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integrate

Top 14 ETL Tools for May 2024

Apr 16, 2024 By Abe Dearmer In Integrate
Organizations of all sizes and industries now have access to ever-increasing amounts of data, far too vast for any human to comprehend. So far in 2023 so far, the world produced and consumed 328.77 million terabytes of data per day — an almost unimaginable number. However, all this information is useless without a way to efficiently process it, analyze it, and reveal the valuable data-driven insights hidden within the noise.
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snowflake

Snowflake Launches the World's Best Practical Text-Embedding Model for Retrieval Use Cases

Apr 16, 2024 By Snowflake AI Research In Snowflake
Today Snowflake is launching and open-sourcing with an Apache 2.0 license the Snowflake Arctic embed family of models. Based on the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB) Retrieval Leaderboard, the largest Arctic embed model with only 334 million parameters is the only one to surpass average retrieval performance of 55.9, a feat only less practical to deploy models with over 1 billion parameters are able to achieve.
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iguazio

LLM Metrics: Key Metrics Explained

Apr 16, 2024 By Alexandra Quinn In Iguazio
Organizations that monitor their LLMs will benefit from higher performing models at higher efficiency, while meeting ethical considerations like ensuring privacy and eliminating bias and toxicity. In this blog post, we bring the top LLM metrics we recommend measuring and when to use each one. In the end, we explain how to implement these metrics in your ML and gen AI pipelines.
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Snowflake Horizon Demo For Data Engineers

Apr 16, 2024 By Snowflake In Snowflake
In this demo targeted at data engineers, Ravi Kumar, Senior Partner Sales Engineer at Snowflake, shows you how to govern and discover data, apps, and more in Snowflake Horizon. Learn and try the core capabilities of Snowflake Horizon to unify data across different sources and formats, such as by loading data securely into Snowflake based on RBAC privileges and being interoperable with Iceberg Tables in external cloud storage.
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BigQuery data canvas overview

Apr 16, 2024 By Google BigQuery In Google BigQuery
Reimagine your data analysis experience with the AI-powered BigQuery data canvas. This natural language centric tool simplifies the process of finding, querying, and visualizing your data. Its intuitive features help you discover data assets quickly, generate SQL queries, automatically visualize results, and seamlessly collaborate with others – all within a unified interface.
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Introduction to Gemini in BigQuery

Apr 16, 2024 By Google BigQuery In Google BigQuery
Data practitioners spend much of their time on complex, fragmented and sometimes, repetitive tasks. This limits their ability to focus on strategic insights and maximize the value of their data. Gemini in BigQuery shifts this paradigm by providing AI capabilities that help streamline your workflows across the entire data lifecycle.
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yellowfin

Data Security and Compliance: 5 Essential Considerations

Apr 15, 2024 By Yellowfin Team In Yellowfin
With data continuously growing in complexity and quantity, ensuring data security is more important than ever when choosing to buy a business intelligence (BI) solution. From data protection to data governance, having a BI platform that enables you to control, audit, encrypt and manage user access and usage of sensitive data is essential.
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ClearML

Why RAG Has a Place in Your LLMOps

Apr 15, 2024 By ClearML In ClearML
With the explosion of generative AI tools available for providing information, making recommendations, or creating images, LLMs have captured the public imagination. Although we cannot expect an LLM to have all the information we want, or sometimes even include inaccurate information, consumer enthusiasm for using generative AI tools continues to build.
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Snowflake Horizon Demo for Data Governors And Stewards

Apr 15, 2024 By Snowflake In Snowflake
Ravi Kumar, Senior Partner Sales Engineer at Snowflake, shows you how to govern and discover data, apps, and more in Snowflake Horizon. In this demo targeted at data governors and stewards, learn and try the core capabilities of Snowflake Horizon such as classifying and tagging sensitive data, visualizing lineage, monitoring data quality, and applying granular policies.
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Secure and scalable data lifecycles with RedHat and Cloudera

Apr 15, 2024 By Cloudera In Cloudera
Firas Yasin, Global Alliance Manager of AI/ML at RedHat, introduces the RedHat and Cloudera partnership. Firas shares that customers are often missing the combination of security, scalability and support when deploying open-source solutions for their end-to-end data lifecycles. In this video, Firas highlights that together with RedHat OpenShift and Cloudera Data Platform, customers can achieve security and scalability through the joint solution, in addition to catalyzing on RedHat and Cloudera’s unrivaled support offerings.
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chaossearch

How to Calculate Log Analytics ROI

Apr 12, 2024 By George Hamilton In ChaosSearch
Calculating log analytics ROI is often complicated. For many teams, this technology can be a cost center. Depending on your platform, the cost of a log management solution can quickly add up. For example, many organizations use solutions like the ELK stack because the initial startup costs are low. Yet, over time, costs can creep up for many reasons, including the volume of data collected and ingested per day, required retention periods, and the associated personnel needed to manage the deployment.
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InsightSoftware

Elevate Insights: How Embedded Analytics Boost Decision Intelligence

Apr 12, 2024 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
insightsoftware is a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions, empowering organizations to unlock business data and transform the way finance and data teams operate. In today’s data-driven world, application and development teams are facing a growing demand to empower their users with greater decision intelligence. This means equipping users with the tools and insights they need to make informed choices.
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Introducing Angles Professional

Apr 12, 2024 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
Discover the innovative Angles Professional, a reporting from insightsoftware. Explore how it reduces the need for technical skill by providing multi-data source connectivity, out-of-the-box dashboards, and an easily accessible, web-based interface with shareable, interactive dashboards and visualizations. For more information, See the other videos in this series.
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qlik

The Sliding Doors for Responsible AI

Apr 11, 2024 By James Fisher In Qlik
In this blog series, I have been exploring the “sliding doors” – or divergent paths - organizations can take with data and analytics. Sometimes, grabbing the wrong door means missing out on creating the most value with your data. But in some instances, it can also lead you on a more serious path of breach of compliance with regulations.
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snowflake

A Breakthrough AI-Powered SQL Assistant

Apr 11, 2024 By Pieter Verhoeven In Snowflake
Data is the lifeblood of modern businesses, but unlocking its true insights often requires complex SQL queries. These queries can be time-consuming to write and challenging to maintain. At Snowflake, we believe in making the power of data accessible to all. That’s why we prioritize simplicity, governance and quality in everything we build – including our AI-powered tools.
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integrate

Decoding JSONPath: Navigating the Maze of Modern Data

Apr 11, 2024 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) has become a foundational technology in the dynamic world of data exchange and management. Its lightweight, text-based format for data interchange has gained widespread popularity for its simplicity, ease of understanding, and language independence. Java Script Object Notation’s significant role is largely due to its wide compatibility across various programming environments, establishing it as a preferred choice among web developers and data professionals.
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Postman Enables a Self-Serve Data Culture with Hevo Data

Apr 11, 2024 By Hevo In Hevo
Discover how@postman, a leading API platform, was able to cultivate a data-driven culture across teams by making their data easy to use and easy to access. By building a modern data stack using tools like Hevo, Postman enabled folks across teams and hierarchies to take their decisions based on a strong foundation of data.
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confluent

Schema Registry Clients in Action

Apr 10, 2024 By Maven plugin In Confluent
There are plenty of materials available out there about Schema Registry. From Confluent alone, if you head to Confluent Developer and search “Schema Registry” you will discover an ever-growing repository of over 100 results including courses, articles, tutorials, blog posts, and more, providing comprehensive resources for enthusiasts and professionals alike.
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InsightSoftware

insightsoftware Introduces Power ON Budget Planner to Transform Budgeting and Planning for Microsoft Power BI Users

Apr 10, 2024 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
insightsoftware is a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions, empowering organizations to unlock business data and transform the way finance and data teams operate. Unified budgeting and planning solution enables creation of more accurate, timely plans within a familiar application, delivering more impactful analysis across the organization.
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yellowfin

Top 5 Grafana Alternatives for Analytics and Data Visualization

Apr 10, 2024 By Yellowfin Team In Yellowfin
In the competitive analytics and data visualization landscape, Grafana has carved out a niche with its open-source flexibility and powerful data visualization features. However, Grafana faces certain limitations in terms of advanced analytics functionalities and less seamless integration with your software product compared to analytics and data visualization tools sourced from broader business intelligence (BI) ecosystems, such as.
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integrate

Mastering Tableau Prep with Integrate.io

Apr 10, 2024 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
If you've performed any sort of data prep, you know how time-consuming it can be. But it's a vital step in finding the hidden nuggets your data offers. You have to “fix up” the data so it can become the insights you need without any outdated or biased information. So mastering, especially anything data-related, may sound like a pipeline dream — pun intended — but it can be done. Could Tableau Prep be the data preparation solution you need?
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dreamfactory

Introduction to Unified Data: What Is It and Why Is It Important

Apr 9, 2024 By Tony Harris In DreamFactory
Terence Bennett - April 9, 2024 Today’s businesses rely on data to operate. Everything from collecting customer data to recording data points from business processes contributes to reaching goals. Big data doesn’t mean much, though, when you keep it separated in silos. When you unify data, you create more data analytics opportunities that lead to valuable insights.
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confluent

How to Securely Connect Confluent Cloud with Services on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Apr 9, 2024 By Public Egress IPs for publicly networked clusters In Confluent
The rise of fully managed cloud services fundamentally changed the technology landscape and introduced benefits like increased flexibility, accelerated deployment, and reduced downtime. Confluent offers a portfolio of 80+ fully managed connectors that enables quick, easy, and reliable integration of Confluent Cloud with popular data sources and sinks, connecting your entire system in real time.
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integrate

Guide to Comma Separated Values in Data Integration

Apr 9, 2024 By Terence Bennett In Integrate
Today’s business environment depends on collecting and analyzing a broad range of data. Data integration, therefore, has become critical when consolidating diverse data types. Without data integration, you’re left with siloed information that’s very difficult—if not impossible—to analyze. Comma-separated values play a fundamental role in data integration, especially when you need to join tables that share column names or want to move datasets between analytical tools.
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Accelerate BigQuery: Optimize performance with data observability

Apr 9, 2024 By Unravel In Unravel
Right now, 88% of companies surveyed are failing to achieve optimal price/performance for their analytics workloads. Why? Their skilled engineers spend too much time doing toilsome work and optimizing data workloads for performance and efficiency is complicated. With this in mind, Unravel is hosting a live event to help you leverage Unravel to achieve productivity and performance with BigQuery. Watch this 15 minute recording about accelerating data analytics with BigQuery with Clinton Ford, VP of Product Marketing at Unravel and Dave Berry, Principal Solutions Engineer at Unravel.
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InsightSoftware

How EPM Solutions Increase Efficiency in Data Management and Reporting

Apr 8, 2024 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
In today’s data-driven business environment, the finance team plays a critical role in transforming raw data into actionable insights that inform strategic decision-making. However, the prevalence of disconnected data sources, often referred to as data silos, creates significant bottlenecks that hinder your team’s ability to operate efficiently and generate reliable financial information.
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astera

Information Governance vs. Data Governance: A Comparative Analysis

Apr 4, 2024 By Mariam Anwar In Astera
Every digital interaction generates data. This data can provide invaluable insights and drive effective decision-making when managed effectively. . However, according to a survey, up to 68% of data within an enterprise remains unused, representing an untapped resource for driving business growth. One way of unlocking this potential lies in two critical concepts: data governance and information governance.
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InsightSoftware

At an ERP Crossroads? Let insightsoftware Guide Your Path.

Apr 4, 2024 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
Over the past several years, many organizations have shifted their technology focus to the cloud. From a technical perspective, that has required a delicate balancing act, managing tradeoffs between the old and the new. Business leaders have sought to minimize the level of disruption their teams face while modernizing business applications, increasing integration, and adding important new functionality.
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countly

Countly's Privacy-Focused Approach to Analytics for The Finance Industry

Apr 4, 2024 By Nadia Benslimane In Countly
While our discussions have previously highlighted the unique analytics challenges and opportunities within industries such as automotive, healthcare, and kids' gaming, today, we turn our focus to the finance sector. In this article, we’ll zoom in on analytics challenges in the finance world, and we’ll answer why Countly is exceptionally suited for product analytics in the financial sector.
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integrate

Data Wizardry: Excel's Snowflake Integration

Apr 4, 2024 By Terence Bennett In Integrate
Combining the impressive cloud storage capabilities of Snowflake with the robust and versatile processing tools of Microsoft Excel is the type of data wizardry that can deliver incredible results. By leveraging these two powerhouses, developers can tap into unparalleled data analysis, visualization, and reporting, transforming raw data into insightful decisions with ease.
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astera

Data Quality Framework: What It Is and How to Implement It

Apr 3, 2024 By Khurram Haider In Astera
A data quality framework is a set of guidelines that enable you to measure, improve, and maintain the quality of data in your organization. The goal is to ensure that organizational data meets specific standards, i.e., it is accurate, complete, consistent, relevant, and reliable at all times—from acquisition and storage to subsequent analysis and interpretation. eBook: A Guide to Data Quality Management Download eBook.
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integrate

Snowpark Unleashed: Data Magic Within Snowflake

Apr 3, 2024 By Terence Bennett In Integrate
In the cloud data platform environment, Snowflake has carved out its place as a scalable, flexible, and efficient solution. At the heart of its offering is an ecosystem designed to meet the diverse needs of modern businesses. This includes everything ranging from data storage and analysis to complex data science projects. Snowflake simplifies these data operations and provides a robust foundation for innovation and growth.
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integrate

Convert XLSX to CSV: Top Free and Easy Methods Explained

Apr 3, 2024 By Donal Tobin In Integrate
Looking to convert xlsx to csv quickly and efficiently? This guide cuts through the complexity to present you with reliable methods for file conversion, be it through familiar applications like Microsoft Excel or through versatile online tools. Discover straightforward steps, anticipate possible conversion challenges, and learn how to navigate them seamlessly. Get ready to transform your data with ease.
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insightsoftware xP&A for Power BI solution

Apr 3, 2024 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
insightsoftware xP&A for Power BI solution helps businesses streamline and enhance their budgeting, forecasting, and analysis. It delivers a simple-to-use, automated data warehouse that allows businesses to easily consolidate and transform financial and operational data into a single-source-of-truth, utilizing Microsoft Analysis Services data cubes ready for use with Power BI.
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hitachi vantara

Hitachi Vantara Doubles Down on its Enterprise Storage, AI, and Hybrid Cloud Business Through Strategic Realignment

Apr 2, 2024 By Hitachi Vantara In Hitachi Vantara
New organizational structure includes integration of Hitachi IT Platform Products Management Division to provide unmatched data processing, reliability, and resiliency capabilities.
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qlik

7 Easy Steps to Accelerate SAP Data Replication in Real-Time in Databricks

Apr 2, 2024 By Clever Anjos In Qlik
Data engineers play a crucial role in leveraging the immense potential of SAP data to drive smarter decisions and foster innovation. However, integrating and analyzing this valuable information can be complex and time-consuming. But it doesn’t need to be. In this blog post, we will explore how Qlik Cloud Data Integration and Databricks together make it much easier to harness the power of SAP data and blend that data in Databricks, in a cost-effective manner.
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cloudera

FedRAMP In Process Designation, A Milestone in Cybersecurity Commitment

Apr 2, 2024 By Natalia Belaya In Cloudera
It’s been said that the Federal Government is one of, if not the largest, producer of data in the United States, and this data is at the heart of mission delivery for agencies across the civilian to DoD spectrum. Data is critical to driving the innovation and decision-making that improves services, streamlines operations and strengthens national security.
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thoughtspot

Leverage Google Gemini on ThoughtSpot AI-Powered Analytics

Apr 2, 2024 By Vika Smilansky In ThoughtSpot
Over the past couple of years, ThoughtSpot and Google have collaborated on a series of seamless user experiences—enabling deployments on Google Cloud Platform, creating the ability to live query entire Google BigQuery analytics catalogs, and integrating key Looker Modeling functionality just to name a few. This type of co-innovation helps mutual customers get the most value out of their data.
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hitachi vantara

Your Business Relies on Data - and Growing Threats are Putting that Data at Risk

Apr 2, 2024 By Octavian Tanase In Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi Vantara ensures 100% data availability for operational resilience and compliance Cybersecurity and the need for data resilience are at an inflection point. Data is growing rapidly. By 2025, 180 zettabytes of data will exist globally, Statista reports. Enterprise data is everywhere – on factory floors, on streets and highways, by point-of-sale terminals, and just about anywhere and by any other connected device that you can think of.
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yellowfin

How to Create a Pie Chart in Yellowfin Dashboards

Apr 2, 2024 By Yellowfin Team In Yellowfin
Welcome to the latest entry in Yellowfin Japan’s ‘How to?’ blog series! In our previous blog, we went through how to create big number and vertical column charts in Yellowfin, as well as how to add a 'back-to-top button to your dashboard. We categorized the charts to be displayed on the dashboard by aggregation axis, and created charts that aggregate on the axis of Year.
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cloudera

Cloudera Named a Visionary in the Gartner MQ for Cloud DBMS

Apr 1, 2024 By Navita Sood In Cloudera
We’re excited to share that Gartner has recognized Cloudera as a Visionary among all vendors evaluated in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems. This recognition underscores Cloudera’s commitment to continuous customer innovation and validates our ability to foresee future data and AI trends, and our strategy in shaping the future of data management.
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snowflake

Bidirectional Data Sharing Between Snowflake and Salesforce Data Cloud Is Now Generally Available

Apr 1, 2024 By Saptarshi (Sap) Mukherjee In Snowflake
Snowflake and Salesforce are happy to share that bidirectional data sharing between Snowflake, the Data Cloud company and Salesforce Data Cloud is now generally available. In September, we proudly announced that organizations could begin leveraging Salesforce data directly in Snowflake via zero-ETL data sharing to unify their customer and business data, accelerate decision-making and help streamline business processes.
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