Organizations at the forefront of their field leverage speed and agility to maintain their competitive edge. The key factor driving this agility is collaboration, which can only be achieved by providing every department with access to the data they need to perform their jobs more efficiently. According to Gartner, digital optimization blurs the classic ownership and activity boundaries within and beyond IT.

We're excited to announce that Xplenty has acquired the fastest real-time data replication platform on the market, FlyData. This further expands our product suite and adds database replication to our customer offering. This was the highest requested feature from our customers, so we're happy to announce that we now have CDC (change data capture) capabilities.

Success for any business starts with data that is easily discoverable, understandable, and of value to the people who need it. We call this type of data “healthy data.” You should look at a wide set of measures and metrics to determine whether data is healthy or not, but at the core of all healthy data is a high level of quality.

Forbes Insights defines the modernized data center as being built to change just as much as it is built to last. One of the key pillars for a modernized data center is an agile data infrastructure. The Forbes Insights briefing explains, “This means it’s not wedded to any specific deployment method or solution set.

For background on Cosmo, Chief Destiny Officer, and his alternative methods, read the earlier posts in this series about The role of a CDO and Customer Segmentation. Predicting the future always sounds a little magical, but we were intrigued to meet a CDO who says he actually makes business forecasts using magic instead of modeling. While at Talend we work exclusively with healthy data, we’ve always wondered what goes on at organizations that don’t rely on data for business decisions.

What is QBR? And why should you do one? Here is a complete guide on making the most of your Quarterly Business Reviews.

Fivetran has closed its acquisition of HVR. CEOs George Fraser and Anthony Brooks-Williams explain how it happened and what it means for customers.

Netsuite and Salesforce are both prominent SaaS providers. The two cloud-based software companies are home to powerful marketing automation, sales automation, and customer service tools. While Netsuite and Salesforce are both powerful as standalone entities, their tools become even more useful to companies when they are used together. That’s why finding the perfect data integration system to connect Netsuite and Salesforce is essential to your business.

“You’re crazy if you don’t start in the cloud; you’re crazy if you stay on it,” quips a recent blog post from Andreessen Horowitz. Many companies are surprised by cloud bills that have shot past their expectations. Indeed, IDC predicts increased investment in public cloud cost management through 2022 as enterprises seek to cut cloud waste by 50%. This is the Cloud Cost Paradox.