Imagine you're in finance, juggling with data scattered across countless applications. Combining information from various sources for tasks like budgeting, forecasting, and regulatory unnecessarily hard. The traditional data warehouse approach promises a solution, but it comes with a hefty price tag. It's slow, expensive to maintain and requires constant IT involvement. Data Fabric offers a more promising approach. It connects to various data sources in real time, eliminating outdated information and providing a unified view for applications and BI tools.

In this video, we discuss one way a business can approach decomposing a monolith using a series of clearly defined steps and robust monitoring.

Join Lucia Cerchie in a coding walkthrough, bridging the gap between REST APIs and data streaming. Together we’ll transform the OpenSky Network's live API into a data stream using Kafka and Flink SQL. Not only do we change the REST API into a data stream in this walkthrough, but we clean up the data on the way! We use Flink SQL to make it more readable and clean, and in that way we keep more of the business logic away from the client code.

Erin Rebholz, former McKesson executive and President of Merilytic Health, discusses the role of cloud-based solutions, data governance and interoperability in improving clinical outcomes and patient care. Erin emphasizes the importance of effective data sharing and the potential impact of AI and machine learning on healthcare, offering insights into evolving data analytics practices that can empower healthcare providers.

The excitement of Data Cloud Summit 2024 continued into Day Three as attendees got to witness some fantastic demos showcasing new Snowflake products and capabilities, hear about successful AI and LLM implementations and enjoy some fun and games on the show floor.

Real-time financial and operational reporting that connects to NetSuite directly in Excel. Eliminate manual processes and enable efficient reporting across multiple data sources for shorter month-ends and faster refreshes with ad hoc inquiries and drill-downs.