Preventing Customer Churn with Continual, Snowflake, and dbt

In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the customer churn/retention use case. This should contain everything needed to get started on the use case, and enterprising readers can also try this out for themselves in a free trial of Continual, following the customer churn example in the linked github repository.

How to Set Up Amazon Redshift on AWS

In a digitally powered economy, having access to data can help companies navigate market changes, perform customer analytics and adjust their strategy to meet demand. Unfortunately, most of the data company’s generate are unstructured and siloed across various departments in the organization. According to Forbes, 95 percent of businesses cite the need to manage unstructured data as a problem for their business.

Gartner Recognizes Cloudera in Critical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems for Operational Use Cases

Cloudera has been recognized as a Visionary in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS) and for the first time, evaluated CDP Operational Database (COD) against the 12 critical capabilities for Operational Databases.

Supply Chains: Staying Ahead of the Unpredictable With an Analytics Data Pipeline

2021 demonstrated the precariousness of our global supply chains and the potential cost to business. The Suez Canal blockage held up around $9.6bn of trade each day, while the true impact of the pandemic won’t be known for years. Many of us have also felt it during our weekly shopping and the disappointment when one of our favorite items is replaced by cardboard cutouts instead of the foodstuff themselves.

The rise of the data analytics engineer

In the era of big data, the world is producing more information than it can consume. Every minute of the day: Smart companies took notice of the growth in data and turned it into an opportunity for company growth. But having a lot of data is just part of the recipe. You also need to have technical data experts, who can turn the raw data into manageable operations that deliver revenue-generating insights. This led to the job roles of the data engineers and data scientists, that joined data teams.

8 Google BigQuery Data Types: A Comprehensive Guide

Having a firm understanding of Google BigQuery Data types is necessary if you are to take full advantage of the warehousing tool’s on-demand offerings and capabilities. We at Hevo Data (Hevo is a unified data integration platform that helps customers bring data from 100s of sources to Google BigQuery in real-time without writing any code) often come across customers who are in the process of setting up their BigQuery Warehouse for analytics.

SaaS Pricing Model Considerations when Powered by Snowflake

As software companies gain more users or re-platform from traditional platforms to the cloud, they typically need to evolve the pricing models to provide value to the different customer segments and keep their competitive advantage. In today's video, you'll learn about the value of different SaaS pricing models and the advantages of enhancing your SaaS model with a consumption-based revenue stream. From user-based to usage-based pricing, learn how Snowflake’s platform can facilitate a consumption-based model.

11 Redshift Tips for Startups

There has never been a better time to start a startup, thanks to all of the advancements in communications and data management technology. Data engineering and utilization are at the core of every new startup that plans on disrupting and dominating its markets. Fortunately, Amazon Redshift can make the data management aspects of running a business much easier. Here are 11 Amazon Redshift tips for startups.

Control Issues: Overcoming Departmental Territorialism to Increase Data Sharing

Here’s a scenario that might feel painfully familiar. Your marketing department captures customer leads, and passes them to the sales department. Marketing’s success is measured in part on the number and size of deals that result. But a squabble breaks out over how the sales department handles, nurtures, and attributes those conversions. Result: Neither department really wants to share their data.