Today we are announcing the Preview of BigQuery Remote Functions. Remote Functions are user-defined functions (UDF) that let you extend BigQuery SQL with your own custom code, written and hosted in Cloud Functions, Google Cloud’s scalable pay-as-you-go functions as a service. A remote UDF accepts columns from BigQuery as input, performs actions on that input using a Cloud Function, and returns the result of those actions as a value in the query result.

Change data capture helps you make faster and more accurate decisions with real-time data movement.

It’s no secret that modern data professionals are under immense pressure to deliver more data and insights to more business users, more quickly than ever before. Data is the lifeblood of your business. And frontline business people need personalized, actionable insights to make data-driven decisions. But before these users even touch a self-service Live Analytics platform like ThoughtSpot, the data must be appropriately modeled by analytics engineers.

As companies go all in on the cloud to dominate the decade of data, agility, flexibility, and ease of use are critical to success. That’s why we’re so excited to announce ThoughtSpot’s support for Amazon Redshift Serverless which allows customers to leverage the Modern Analytics Cloud to run and scale analytics on Amazon Redshift without having to provision and manage any data warehouse infrastructure.