When you look closer at the Modern Data Stack (MDS) you need to brace yourself. The number of tools companies use for their databases, user administration, data extraction, data integration, security, machine learning, and a myriad of other use cases has grown astronomically. Matt Turck, VC at FirstMark, composes a yearly infographic of the hot tools in the datascape: And this is just a shortlist of both the most popular and fastest-growing tools.

Gaining insights from your data can be time-consuming. Or as simple as a few clicks. Depending on if you want to do everything by yourself, or if you let us help. For example, next time one of your stakeholders asks: “Can you deliver the dashboards by the end of next week?” You can say yes with confidence, and in this blog we are going to show you why and how it is done.

Enabling data and analytics in the cloud allows you to have infinite scale and unlimited possibilities to gain faster insights and make better decisions with data. The data lakehouse is gaining in popularity because it enables a single platform for all your enterprise data with the flexibility to run any analytic and machine learning (ML) use case. Cloud data lakehouses provide significant scaling, agility, and cost advantages compared to cloud data lakes and cloud data warehouses.

Yellowfin converts your data into visual Reports and then helps you to create Dashboards and Stories to present these reports to your customers. The Reports are usually a combination of data fields and charts. Charts are a significant component of any report. They help customers understand the data quickly and give your report or presentation clarity and authority.

Too many organizations start their data projects at the wrong end of the pipeline. Although challenges with data quality, integrity, access, and visibility are all important issues to address, a project should never start with the data. The reality is that all investments in data are meaningless if no business value can be gained. And this requires starting at the other end of the spectrum - evaluating the business problem to identify how data can help drive change within the organization.

There is no question about the usefulness of big data these days. However, if you want the best data, you need it to be as accurate as possible. That means that your data has to be up-to-date, correct, and clean. Using one of these top data cleansing tools can help you be sure of this.

Demand for both entry-level and highly skilled tech talent is at an all-time high, and companies across industries and geographies are struggling to find qualified employees. And, with 1.1 billion jobs liable to be radically transformed by technology in the next decade, a “reskilling revolution” is reaching a critical mass.

The AlloyDB connector from Integrate.io empowers organizations to rapidly consolidate all of their data into AlloyDB—a high-powered, Google Cloud database that is 100% compatible with open-source PostgreSQL. By serving as an easy-to-set-up, high-speed data pipeline to AlloyDB, Integrate.io helps businesses modernize their legacy proprietary databases by migrating them to open-source, PostgreSQL-compatible systems.