Finance leaders are facing the most turbulent trading conditions for more than a generation. The odds of recession are rising, US inflation has hit a 40-year peak, the “Great Resignation” has denied organisations the people they urgently need to go to market, stock markets have slumped, exchange rates are beyond volatile and, although abating, there is still the threat of a fresh round of Covid. Forecasting business performance has never been so challenging.

This is a guest post by Bill Inmon, an American computer scientist. Many industry leaders recognize him as the father of the data warehouse. Inmon authored the first book, held the first conference, and wrote the first magazine column on data warehousing. He currently focuses on developing the revolutionary technology known as textual ETL.

Pub/Sub’s ingestion of data into BigQuery can be critical to making your latest business data immediately available for analysis. Until today, you had to create intermediate Dataflow jobs before your data could be ingested into BigQuery with the proper schema. While Dataflow pipelines (including ones built with Dataflow Templates) get the job done well, sometimes they can be more than what is needed for use cases that simply require raw data with no transformation to be exported to BigQuery.

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As Business Intelligence (BI) tools, data warehousing solutions, and enterprise data and application landscapes have advanced, it’s worth taking the time to rethink that old model, starting with the dichotomy between operational reporting (OR) and strategic analytics. There is a clear difference between operational reporting and BI, but they can and should work together. Companies use one or the other, and if they have both, there is a gap between them.

Digital industries have come a long way in recognizing the value of their customers' data for making well-informed and timely decisions. Businesses invest a lot in implementing innovative strategies, but they also need some metrics to observe the effectiveness or success of those strategies to drive future decisions. Like any other industry, metrics in the e-commerce industry are quantifiable measures of an online business's performance.