Analytics

Spinning up Cloud-scale Analytics is now Even More Compelling with Talend and Microsoft

Today, we're excited to share two announcements that make adopting Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse (ADW) a no-brainer. First, ADW significantly increased the lead over the competition with the new price-performance benchmarks published by GigaOm, showing exponential price-performance improvements over similar solutions.

Introducing six new cryptocurrencies in BigQuery Public Datasets-and how to analyze them

Since they emerged in 2009, cryptocurrencies have experienced their share of volatility—and are a continual source of fascination. In the past year, as part of the BigQuery Public Datasets program, Google Cloud released datasets consisting of the blockchain transaction history for Bitcoin and Ethereum, to help you better understand cryptocurrency. Today, we're releasing an additional six cryptocurrency blockchains.

How Bayer Pharmaceuticals Found the Right Prescription for Clinical Data Access

Like other pharmaceutical companies, Bayer Pharmaceuticals conducts research to discover new drugs, test and validate their effectiveness and safety, and introduce them to the market. That process requires accumulating, analyzing and storing vast amounts of clinical data coming from patients and healthy volunteers, which is recorded on an electronic case report form (eCRF).