We had a jam-packed week alongside more than 60,000 attendees at Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent, one of the largest hands-on conferences in the cloud computing industry. Engaging with partners and customers — and showcasing what’s new on the Snowflake product front — made for a dynamic time in Las Vegas. Here are highlights from the collaborations, integrations and product enhancements that we were proud to dig in to throughout the week.

In our previous How to Design a Dashboard in Yellowfin: Part One article, we covered the the fundamental considerations to take when preparing your dataset, creating a concrete design and selecting the best types of data visualizations to represent dashboard data.

Data security will remain one of the biggest concerns for businesses this year. According to IBM, the average data breach in 2023 cost 4.45 million - and 82% of that involved data stored in the cloud. Damages from cybercrime, including the cost of data recovery, could total $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, causing more business owners to review their data security protocols. Which specific changes should you implement in the next 12 months?

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Data Portal on Confluent Cloud. Data Portal is built on top of Stream Governance, the industry’s only fully managed data governance suite for Apache Kafka® and data streaming. The developer-friendly, self-service UI provides an easy and curated way to find, understand, and enrich all of your data streams, enabling users across your organization to build and launch streaming applications faster.

As analytics technology evolves, so do user needs and expectations. Many customers approach us hoping to boost their application’s analytics capabilities, which are often struggling to meet user demand.

Data analytics tools help your organization understand the insights in your data through custom dashboards, reports, applications, and other visualizations. This software category covers a broad range of capabilities and use cases, from drag-and-drop, no-code dashboard creation software to end-to-end data extraction, analytics, and management platforms. We picked eight of the top data analytics tools for 2024 by referencing G2 ratings and reviews.