Over the years, Keboola and Snowflake have seen their own share of successes and incredible achievements. Now, we can proudly announce that Keboola has joined the Powered by Snowflake program. With both companies founded around the same time, Keboola and Snowflake have been working hand in hand for some time now.

dbt allows data teams to produce trusted data sets for reporting, ML modeling, and operational workflows using SQL, with a simple workflow that follows software engineering best practices like modularity, portability, and continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD).

What does this mean for those of us managing or trying to understand fast-growing companies?

This is a guest post with exclusive content by Bill Inmon, Mary Levins, and Georgia Burleson. Bill “is an American computer scientist recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse. Inmon wrote the first book, held the first conference, wrote the first column in a magazine, and was the first to offer classes in data warehousing.” -Wikipedia.

The data landscape is exploding with tools. As data professionals we have at our fingertips specialized tools for anything: from specialized databases (graph, geo, you name it) to tools for SQL-driven transformations (looking at you, dbt). Yet, a lot of data work is about provisioning, selecting, administering, and just maintaining those tools. Which is just a pain. As Pavel Dolezal, CEO and co-founder of Keboola said: The answer is in how the Modern Data Architecture is built.

Data integration is the data engineering process of combining data across all the different sources in a company (CRM, SaaS apps like Salesforce, APIs, …) into a single unified view. The data integration process includes data extraction, data cleansing, data ingestion, data validation, modeling, and exposing ready-to-be-consumed data sets to other users and applications for business intelligence or data-driven activities.

Unravel now pulls in data quality checks from external tools into its single-pane-of-glass full-stack observability view.

Think about the times you've wished you had more insight into your business data. Or all of the times you wished you could answer questions about your business performance without waiting for someone else to get back to you. Gone are the days when businesses rely solely on IT staff to provide reports and analytics. With self-service business intelligence (BI), users can create their own reports, dashboards, and data visualizations without relying on IT help.