The CRN Tech Innovator Awards spotlight innovative products and services across 36 categories, with winners chosen by CRN staff from over 320 product applications. This year, we’re excited to share that Cloudera’s Open Data Lakehouse 7.1.9 release was named a finalist under the category of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics.

How the Fivetran Managed Data Lake Service stands out in a crowded market.

By now, every organization, regardless of industry, has at least explored the use of AI, if not already embraced it. In today’s market, the AI imperative is firmly here, and failing to act quickly could mean getting left behind. But even as adoption soars, struggles remain, and scalability continues to be a major issue. Organizations are quick to adopt AI, but getting it established across the organization brings a unique set of challenges that come into play.

A very common request we get from analytics users across all industries is the ability to export dashboard and analytic content to external files for collaboration and sharing. Whether the requirement is to export to PDF or export to XLS, exporting dashboard content to another popular media format remains an expected and important feature of modern business intelligence (BI). However, many analytics vendors lack options in exporting content, limiting the ability to share reports with non-analytics users.

Workflow automation involves automating repetitive tasks and processes in a sequence using technology, reducing the need for manual intervention. It involves designing, creating, deploying, and automating business processes like data entry and customer interactions. Workflow automation uses software to replace manual and paper-based processes. Its primary goal is to ensure that the right people work on the right tasks at the right time.

Hey, you! Yeah, you! The puzzled-looking Spring Boot developer, scouring the web for a guide on integrating your microservices with Apache Kafka on Confluent Cloud with Stream Governance. Admit it, you’ve been Googling nonstop for the past hour and all you’ve found are examples using StringSerializer/StringDeserializer with not even the slightest mention of "schema registry-aware" serialization methods. And I bet the examples you found are implemented in Java.