Here’s one of the most memorable quotes I have heard from a customer here in Asia: “Every time they tell me it’s ‘not in the universe’, I feel like mine is collapsing.”

Google Data Studio is a beautiful visualization tool that turns your data into compelling story-telling reports. But before you can visualize your data, you have to collect it, clean it, and validate it. This is where Keboola comes in. Keboola is the Data Stack as a Service (DaaS) platform that helps you with all your data operations - from building and automating ETL pipelines to data governance.

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Learn how 40 ecommerce pros use ecommerce analytics to optimize the performance of their online store and grow online sales.

Kafka is a ubiquitous component of a modern data platform. It has acted as the buffer, landing zone, and pipeline to integrate your data to drive analytics, or maybe surface after a few hops to a business service. More recently, though, it has become the backbone for new digital services with consumer-facing applications that process live off the stream. As such, Kafka is being adopted by dozens, (if not hundreds) of software and data engineering teams in your organization.

Analysis-ready data models are built using sequences of transformations. Here's an example using Fivetran’s data model for Salesforce.

Digital technology promises transformative results. Yet, it’s not uncommon to encounter potholes and speed bumps along the way. One area that frequently trips up businesses is putting data into action. It can be extraordinarily difficult to take advantage of the right data at exactly the right time — in real time — to drive decision-making. For SAP customers wanting to maximize the value of their data, Google Cloud offers a number of capabilities.

Amazon Redshift says it executes data operations ten times faster than other enterprise data warehouses because of a hardware-accelerated cache called Advanced Query Accelerator (AQUAD). It also claims three times better price-performance than other similar technologies. Statements like these are what make Redshift an attractive option for companies that want to push data into a warehouse for analytics.

The value of healthy data is obvious. But how do you build that practice in your own business? The difference between people who live a healthy lifestyle and those who don’t isn’t whether they know how to be healthier — it’s whether or not they prioritize diet, sleep, and exercise in their daily life. The same is true for your data: if you don’t have the infrastructure that supports your customer 360 initiatives , those initiatives become moot.