Organizations with the best Artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are poised to deliver better customer outcomes, maximize revenue opportunities, and leave the competition behind. AI-driven insights can help companies achieve many business objectives such as improving customer loyalty, delivering effective training, reducing the impact of outages or providing better healthcare to patients. Applications are aplenty.

Founded in 1934 as a postal and telephone betting service, William Hill was historically synonymous with the world of horse racing. Since then, the company has continued to grow into other sporting avenues, with the retail arm—which opened in 1966—now amounting to more than 1,400 shops. Fully embracing the potential of the digital revolution, the company now comprises over 10,000 employees over six brands, operating through offices in ten countries.

New Fivetran features help data teams jointly orchestrate Fivetran connectors and transformations using dbt Labs’ open-sourced dbt Core* to minimize data latency, monitor ELT pipelines in real time and reduce engineering time.

ThoughtSpot provides a rich suite of APIs for search, user controls, and platform metadata. These APIs can be especially useful for sharing data with partners via webhooks, building native mobile apps, providing results in json format for third-party charting libraries like D3, or scripting ThoughtSpot configuration to support devops and continuous integration toolchains.

Data security is an important priority for every organization that handles customer or user data, especially those that fall under data privacy and protection laws such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Large volumes of personal data flow in and out of companies and their systems every day, and the threat of data breaches looms over these operations. How can organizations use their data to power critical operations without running afoul of regulations or privacy concerns?

As every traveler knows, even the best-laid plans sometimes go astray. Stuff happens. Trains are delayed. Storms cause outages. People forget their bags. A special event creates long lines. Transportation providers can’t take the uncertainty out of travel or make the world operate precisely on schedule — particularly during a global pandemic.

Matching the experience of your self-service analytics tool to your users' needs has often been difficult when ‘self-service’ is different for everyone. Here's how Guided NLQ tackles this.

The final month of 2021 brought new capabilities for data governance, expanded insights for Snowflake Data Marketplace providers, and several new providers added to the Marketplace. For the full list, see the Release Notes.