9 Expert Tips for Using Snowflake

Snowflake is a robust data warehouse that has changed the data science game for many organizations. Snowflake lets you analyze your data using the most sophisticated query engine available today with its cloud-native architecture. But using Snowflake is not always as simple as using other products on the market. Below are nine expert tips to help you master the Snowflake platform.

Migrating Data During a Merger or Acquisition

Since I’m now migrating NodeGraph’s processes to Qlik, I thought it may be a good time to talk about migrating data during a merger or acquisition. There are many aspects to consider. Here are some of my thoughts on why companies merge or migrate data landscapes, common M&A migration pitfalls and how to avoid them, the time and cost involved migrating data during a merger or acquisition, and other topics.

How to Start E-Commerce Integration

As the world’s number one CRM provider, Salesforce has been transforming customer relationship management for the last two decades across various e-commerce platforms and e-commerce websites. From increased communication to improved customer relationships to better business plans, the Salesforce platform has helped countless organizations move a step above their competitors.

Operationalize Your Data Warehouse With Reverse ETL

Data warehousing aggregates data from disparate sources so you can run real-time reports for greater business intelligence. However, a data warehouse does more than generate big data analytics. How about using it as a data source rather than just a destination? You can move data from your warehouse to other systems in your networks, such as Salesforce or Zendesk, and improve existing operations.

Why Log Data Retention Windows Fail

If you’re using Elasticsearch as part of an ELK stack solution for log analytics, you’ll need to manage the size of your indexed log data to achieve the best performance. Elasticsearch indices have no limit to their size, but a larger index takes longer to query and is more costly to store. Performance degradation is often observed with large Elastic indices and queries on large indices can even crash Elasticsearch when they use up all of the available heap memory on the node.

Why You Need a Salesforce Uploader Today!

With more than 150,000 customers and millions of users, Salesforce processes a lot of data — accounts, contacts, activities, leads, opportunities, you name it. And people are adding more data to Salesforce all the time. As organizations realize the benefits of customer relations, Salesforce has become the number one destination for sales, marketing, eCommerce, and field service data. That's even more accounts, contacts, activities, leads, and opportunities.

Three reasons you need modern cloud analytics now

Data is everywhere. As the sheer volume and number of data sources continue to explode, so do new opportunities for modern businesses to create and act on insights. That is if they are equipped with the right analytics technology. Historically, many businesses have settled for “good enough” analytics tools, putting up with lackluster bundles from full-stack vendors in an attempt to minimize cost or risk.