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February 2024

#shorts - Tabular Reporting PDF Output Just Added #data #visualization #qlik #qliksense

Create dynamic tabular reports by combining the Qlik add-in for Microsoft Excel with report preparation features available within a Qlik Sense app. Deliver report output by email and to folders defined in Microsoft SharePoint connections. Reports can be in.xlsx or PDF format.

The Sliding Doors for ESG Reporting

In my first post of this new blog series, I introduced the concept of “sliding doors” for creating value with data: the divergent paths that organizations can take which can lead to great - or not so great - outcomes. In this post, I want to explore this for what has become a new data imperative for organizations today: effectively reporting their environmental, social and governance (ESG) data to meet new regulations.

Unravel Data Product Update: Boost Databricks productivity, performance, and efficiency

Product Update: Boost Databricks productivity, performance, and efficiency Right now, 88% of companies surveyed are failing to achieve optimal price/performance for their analytics workloads. Why? They don’t have the staff, their skilled engineers spend too much time doing toilsome work, and they are unable to optimize data workloads for performance and efficiency. With this in mind, Unravel is hosting a live event to help you leverage Unravel to achieve productivity, performance, and cost efficiency with Databricks.

Moving Data Into Snowflake From SAP NetWeaver Using SNP Glue Connector

Benjamin Deaver, Senior Solutions Architect at SNP Group, sits down with "Powered by Snowflake" host Felipe Hoffa to demonstrate the operation of SNP Glue Connector for SAP, a Snowflake Native Application. Its purpose is to push data to Snowflake from the SAP NetWeaver stack and then consolidate it and merge it together.

Simplify Spatial Indexing with the Power of H3 - What the World Needs Now Is a Hexagonal Grid

Did you know that approximately two thirds of Snowflake customers capture the latitude and longitude of some business entity or event in their account? While latitude and longitude columns can often be used by BI tools and Python libraries to plot points on a map, or shade common administrative boundaries such as states, provinces and countries, companies can do so much more with this valuable geospatial data to perform complex analyses.

Using Streams Replication Manager Prefixless Replication for Kafka Topic Aggregation

Businesses often need to aggregate topics because it is essential for organizing, simplifying, and optimizing the processing of streaming data. It enables efficient analysis, facilitates modular development, and enhances the overall effectiveness of streaming applications. For example, if there are separate clusters, and there are topics with the same purpose in the different clusters, then it is useful to aggregate the content into one topic.

Marketplace Monetization: Turn Your Data and Apps into a Revenue Stream

Snowflake Marketplace is a vibrant resource, with hundreds of providers offering thousands of ready-to-try or ready-to-buy third-party data sets, applications and services. Many of these providers make their products available on Snowflake Marketplace for Snowflake customers to purchase — and they use our integrated Marketplace Monetization capabilities to simplify the process and speed up procurement and sales cycles.

How to Create Big Number and Vertical Column Charts in Yellowfin

Welcome back to Yellowfin Japan’s ‘How to?’ blog series! In our previous blog, we went through how to capture data using Yellowfin's Data Transformation flow, and the preparation and steps for creating reports using Yellowfin View. It may seem like a lot of simple work, but as the number of reports to be created increases, the importance of data preparation becomes far more apparent. So, what about after you’ve done all the setup? Well, it’s now time to create reports!

What's new in 2.6 | Cost Savings and Developer Improvement

Data engineers and analysts need a self-service way to build data movement flows to get critical data to where it needs to be. Cloudera DataFlow enables self-service by introducing fine grained access control with projects. Projects allow users to group flow drafts and deployments and give access to team members as needed.

Top 10 Reasons to Acquire a Product Information Management Solution (PIM or PXM)

Implementing a PIM or PXM* solution will bring numerous benefits to your organization, in terms of improving efficiency, increasing sales and conversions, reducing returns, and promoting customer loyalty through more accurate, more complete, and more engaging product content. Here we explore these benefits in more detail.

What is Data Mapping?

The quick and dirty definition of data mapping is the process of connecting different types of data from various data sources. Data mapping is essential for integration, migration, and transformation of different data sets; it allows you to improve your data quality by preventing duplications and redundancies in your data fields. Data mapping is a crucial step in data modeling and can help organizations achieve their business goals by enabling data integration, migration, transformation, and quality.

Beyond the Buzz: Braze Equips Modern Marketers with Powerful AI Tools

A lot of the buzz around AI focuses on its future potential. And we get it — we’re talking about a transformative technology that presents seemingly limitless possibilities. But an important aspect of this world-changing tech story that gets lost in the hype is understanding exactly what AI solutions are available for you and your team to employ right now, today.

Technical Deep-dive - Unlock the Power of Data with AI, Machine Learning & Automation - Part 2

We delve into Generative AI capabilities, seamless application automation integration, and robust machine learning using AutoML. The webinar aims to unravel the behind-the-scenes magic that powers the application. Attendees can anticipate gaining valuable insights into the methodologies and technologies that contribute to enhanced predictability and data-driven decision-making.

Simplify Application Development With Hybrid Tables

We previously announced Snowflake’s Unistore workload, which continues Snowflake’s legacy of breaking down data silos by uniting transactional and analytical data in a consistent and governed platform. Today, we are pleased to announce that Hybrid Tables — the core feature powering Unistore — is in public preview in select AWS regions. Hybrid Tables is a new table type that enables transactional use cases within Snowflake with fast, high-concurrency point operations.

3 Ways Embedded Analytics Boosts Data Literacy

Put simply, data literacy is the ability to translate data into insights, a capability that every technology buyer is seeking this year. The importance of data has been well established and technology leaders understand the value sitting dormant in their ever-growing databases. When researching the right application for their teams, features that boost data literacy will be front of mind for your buyers.

Delivering Telecom Sustainability Targets Using Autonomous Networks

As the world grapples with the escalating climate crisis, many industries are re-examining their operations to identify and implement sustainable practices. The telecommunications industry is no exception. Telecom companies face growing pressure from consumers, investors and regulators to reduce their carbon footprint and achieve net-zero emissions. This shift towards sustainability aligns with environmental responsibility and presents lucrative business opportunities for telecoms.

What is Yellowfin Signals? Automating Data Discovery

Sifting through vast amounts of data for usable information is both challenging and time-consuming for independent software vendors (ISV) in today’s fast-paced market. But without a continuous search for timely insights, you risk your end-users missing critical business opportunities, or failing to address emerging issues in their data promptly, potentially leading to dissatisfaction and churn.

Top 3 Data + AI Predictions for Retail and Consumer Goods in 2024

Nearly every facet of society has felt the impact of AI since it burst into the mainstream in late 2022 with the public launch of ChatGPT. In 2024, the retail and consumer goods industry is expected to experience massive upheaval due to the proliferation of generative AI (gen AI) tools as well as changes in customer engagement and the general manner in which products are now sold.

Introduction to Ozone on Cloudera Data Platform

When considering whether Ozone is the right fit for your company, view it from several different angles. You can look at it from the perspective of Lower TCO, or reducing the carbon footprint of your Data Center. Other things to consider are how much your data is increasing and at what rate, and if you have enough hardware to cover that growth.

Snowflake's Data Classification Lets You Identify and Tag Sensitive Data Directly in Snowsight

At Snowflake, we believe in empowering our customers to harness the full potential of their data while maintaining robust compliance standards and safeguarding data privacy. We recognize the critical importance of quickly identifying and safeguarding sensitive data objects, and we consistently strive to provide solutions that help achieve these goals — from advancements such as classification and tag-based policies to the intuitive Data Governance UI.

Optimization Strategies for Iceberg Tables

Apache Iceberg has recently grown in popularity because it adds data warehouse-like capabilities to your data lake making it easier to analyze all your data—structured and unstructured. It offers several benefits such as schema evolution, hidden partitioning, time travel, and more that improve the productivity of data engineers and data analysts. However, you need to regularly maintain Iceberg tables to keep them in a healthy state so that read queries can perform faster.

Four Questions to Consider When Navigating the Rapid Evolution of Generative AI

Generative AI’s (gen AI) capabilities seemed startlingly novel a year ago, when ChatGPT’s release led to an explosion of public usage and, simultaneously, intense debate about its potential societal and business impacts. That period of initial amazement and suspicion has given way to business urgency, as companies scramble to adopt gen AI in ways that leverage its potential for maximizing workforce productivity and profitability.

What is AI Analytics?

Imagine your software transforming from merely a tool into a strategic partner that can automatically alert your users to trends, provide explanations of data with a click, and help you ask the right questions of your data-sets - in addition to delivering data-led insights. This is the power of AI analytics solutions for independent software vendors (ISV). Today's users demand more than just functionality. They crave intelligent software that analyzes data, surfaces insights, and empowers them to act.

High Availability (Multi-AZ) for Cloudera Operational Database

In the previous blog post we covered the high availability feature of Cloudera Operational Database (COD) in Amazon AWS. Cloudera recently released a new version of COD, which adds HA support to Microsoft Azure-based databases in the Cloud. In this post, we’ll perform a similar test to validate that the feature works as expected in Azure, too.

DNS Zone Setup Best Practices on Azure

In Cloudera deployments on public cloud, one of the key configuration elements is the DNS. Get it wrong and your deployment may become wholly unusable with users unable to access and use the Cloudera data services. If the DNS is set up less ideal than it could be, connectivity and performance issues may arise. In this blog, we’ll take you through our tried and tested best practices for setting up your DNS for use with Cloudera on Azure.

Tabular Reporting - Do More with Qlik Webinar Replay

This session will demonstrate how Tabular Reporting used within Qlik Sense Applications enables users to efficiently address and manage common operational report creation and distribution requirements. Attendees will discover how report developers can create formatted Excel Templates directly from Qlik data and visualizations. The webinar will also highlight the power of governed Report Tasks, showcasing the seamless distribution and “bursting” of reports to stakeholders. By leveraging Tabular Reporting, the Qlik platform becomes the central source for crucial operational decisions, customer communications, and more.

Accelerating Queries on Iceberg Tables with Materialized Views

This blog post describes support for materialized views for the Iceberg table format in Cloudera Data Warehouse. Apache Iceberg is a high-performance open table format for petabyte-scale analytic datasets. It has been designed and developed as an open community standard to ensure compatibility across languages and implementations.

Top 3 Data + AI Predictions for Manufacturing in 2024

Investment in AI for manufacturing is expected to grow by 57% by 2026. That’s hardly surprising — with AI’s ability to augment worker productivity, improve efficiency and drive innovation, its potential in manufacturing is vast. AI’s predictive capabilities can help manufacturing leaders anticipate market trends and make data-driven decisions, creating financial opportunities for suppliers as well as customers.

Health Care Outside of the Box

How enterprise-grade data management creates better and more efficient care. In the last few years, the acceptance of telehealth has become more widespread as patients and providers found they could maintain continuity through phone and video collaboration, instead of in-person visits. In many cases, a level of care that once required a drive to the clinic or hospital could be delivered over a mobile phone or laptop, with no travel and no waiting room.

Accelerate Gen AI Securely With Snowflake Cortex And Snowpark Container Services

Fueled by vast data volumes and powerful computing, AI is revolutionizing work. To capture the value of Generative AI for business, companies need to customize LLMs with their enterprise data. But feeding sensitive data into externally hosted LLMs poses security and exposure risks, and self-hosting LLMs carry a heavy operational burden from maintaining complex environments.

Snowflake Improves Query Duration by 20% on Stable Workloads Since We Began Tracking the Snowflake Performance Index

Earlier this year at Snowflake Summit, we announced the public launch of the Snowflake Performance Index (SPI), an aggregate index for measuring real-world improvements in Snowflake performance experienced by customers over time. In this post, we provide our biannual update to showcase the latest improvements.

Logi Symphony: Essential Customer Information

The landscape of business intelligence (BI) is undergoing a metamorphosis, demanding solutions that transcend static reports and siloed data. At insightsoftware, we’re not merely keeping pace with this evolution – we’re spearheading it with the transformative rebirth of Logi Symphony. Gone are the days of cumbersome BI 1.0 and self-service limitations of BI 2.0.

5 Steps to Data Diversity: More Diverse Data Makes for Smarter AI

In an iconic Top Gun scene, Charlie tells Maverick that a maneuver is impossible. Maverick replies, “The data on the MIG is inaccurate.” In the more recent sequel, despite his extensive, firsthand knowledge, Maverick is told “the future’s coming and you’re not in it.” While flying may be more automated now, the importance of accurate and diverse data for aviation safety remains — and is likely even more critical.

Challenge Accepted! Ask Mike What You Want to See in His Next Video

We are asking Qlik Nation members what tips and tricks they want to see in Mike Tarallo's upcoming Qlik shorts or Do More with Qlik - Tips and Tricks edition series. This is your opportunity to submit what Qlik capabilities, features, solution you want to learn more about - and see them featured on YouTube and other social platform.

Embedding BI Into RAD Studio applications with Yellowfin

Integrating business intelligence (BI) into your RAD Studio application is a great way to increase product stickiness, improve customer loyalty and unlock data-led insights for your end-users. Also known as embedded analytics, having a suite of natively integrated BI tools in your software product opens up data access and insight discovery to your end-users as part of their workflow, helping them make business decisions and increasing the value of your software for their goals.

Top 5 Data + AI Predictions for Financial Services in 2024

Generative AI tops every list of major financial services trends for 2024. And it’s no wonder — this new technology has the potential to revolutionize the industry by augmenting the value of employee work, driving organizational efficiencies, providing personalized customer experiences, and uncovering new insights from vast amounts of data.

Optimize SAP Data Analysis for a Sustainable Future

Monitoring your carbon footprint aligns your company with global efforts to address climate change and serves as a cornerstone of responsible corporate governance and cutting-edge sustainable business practices. Understanding your SAP data to its fullest is the first step on the journey towards a more sustainable future. With an advanced operational reporting solution that delivers proper data analysis, you can put your best foot forward.

Cloudera Named Strong Performer in New Forrester Wave for Streaming Platforms

Forrester Research recently released the Forester Wave for Streaming Platforms, Q4 2023. We are happy to share that Cloudera ranked as a strong performer, with a top three score for current offering. This score was stronger than anyone outside of one-cloud vendors Microsoft and Google, including a stronger current offering than Confluent. Cloudera is also the strongest on-prem offering and the only fully hybrid offering to achieve a strong performer score.

2024's Top Data + AI Predictions in Advertising, Media and Entertainment

It’s not hyperbole to say that generative AI (gen AI) is radically transforming the advertising, media and entertainment industry. There has been widespread excitement about the potential of gen AI to open brand-new creative opportunities and unlock unprecedented efficiencies. At the same time, there has been understandable concern about issues such as inherent bias, deep fakes and the impact of gen AI on jobs.

Mastering Day 2 Operations with Cloudera

Delivering transformational innovation and accurate business decisions requires harnessing the full potential of your organization’s entire data ecosystem. Ultimately, this boils down to how reliable and trustworthy the underlying data that feeds your insights and applications is. This applies to modern generative AI solutions that are particularly reliant on trusted, accurate, and context-specific data.

Accelerate Your Roadmap, Delight Your Customers: How Embedded Analytics Supercharges Your Application

As technology advances, so do user expectations. Advanced analytics has emerged as a hot topic and a key area of focus for buyers looking to provide higher quality analysis to inform business decision-making in a turbulent market. Furthermore, the era of cheap money is over. Funding is scarce and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) must ensure their offer is seen as an essential expense for financially constrained buyers, delivering quick value, quality, and innovation.

AI: Balancing Innovation and Ethics

In a Sky News Australia Segment, Qlik CEO Mike Capone discusses the the transformative power of #AI. Here's a glimpse of our discussion: Ethical AI & Public-Private Collaboration: Emphasized the urgent need for public-private partnerships in setting ethical AI standards. The recent developments from Davos are a promising step towards this vital collaboration.