Ask any craftsman the secret to excellence, and you will likely hear that, in addition to skill, the craftsman needs the right tools for the project. The same can be said for finance teams as they work on operational reporting. The most skilled finance professionals still need the right tools to get the job done well.

A modern data stack opens up new opportunities and frees people to focus on what they do best — no matter the team they work in.

February brought a number of exciting enhancements, especially for customers building and running data pipelines in Snowflake, including support for Snowpark stored procedures and flexible task execution. Additionally, customers get improved impact analysis through support for object dependencies, and we continue to expand Snowflake’s global reach with the regional availability of UAE North (Dubai) on Azure. Read on for more!

Whether you use Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, WooCommerce or another option entirely, there's no shortage of eCommerce platforms for you to choose from. However, the platform itself isn't an all-in-one solution for your eCommerce business. Instead, you need to enhance the platform's functionality by integrating it with other applications and systems in your IT ecosystem.

Understand the tradeoffs to make the best choice “Why are you still doing ETL pipelines?” “The Data Warehouse is the only way you can keep data quality high, despite the extra data modeling needed.” “Have you not heard of data mesh beforehand? It solves all centralization problems.” When it comes to data management, there are as many opinions as there are data managers. This is not to say there aren’t any good answers or right principles to follow.

With the launch of CDP Public Cloud 7.2.14, Cloudera Streams Messaging for Data Hub deployments has gotten some powerful new features! In this release, the Streams Messaging templates in Data Hub will come with Apache Kafka 2.8 and Cruise Control 2.5 providing new core features and fixes. KConnect has been added and gains additional capabilities with new connectors and Stateless Apache NiFi capabilities which can run NiFi Flows as connectors.

From one-click upsells to dynamic pop-ups and personalized email and SMS campaigns, here are 7 ecommerce personalization examples to inspire you.

Five things you should know about Azure Synapse Analytics: Azure Synapse Analytics is a scalable, cloud-based data warehousing solution from Microsoft. Upon its launch, Microsoft described it as “the next iteration of Azure SQL Data Warehouse.” In addition to offering all of the technology and features of that platform, Azure Synapse also incorporates business intelligence, data analytics, and machine learning tools for both relational and non-relational data.