Microsoft Access Loses Salesforce Connector - Here's Your Replacement Plan

Microsoft retired the Access Salesforce connector in October 2025. Here's how to keep your data flowing with the Simba Salesforce ODBC Driver. If you've been using Microsoft Access to connect to Salesforce, you need a new solution. The good news? Simba has been powering Microsoft's Salesforce connectivity under the hood for years. Same proven driver, same reliable performance. The switch is simple: update one connection string and your queries keep running, your reports stay intact, and your stakeholders don't even need to know anything changed.

Disaster Recovery in 60 Seconds: A POC for Seamless Client Failover on Confluent Cloud

I’ve worked with Apache Kafka since 2019, and deciding how to design and implement client failover was a sticking point in almost every use case I dealt with. Even for Confluent customers—who have the benefit of features such as Confluent Replicator, Multi-Region Clusters, and Cluster Linking—ensuring seamless failover between Kafka environments is a challenging problem.

ClearML Enterprise v3.28: Usage Metering, Policy Enhancements, and Smarter Admin Controls

Author: Adam Wolf ClearML Enterprise v3.28 offers new features and improvements to help administrators monitor usage, enforce policies, and streamline operations across large, multi-team environments. This release introduces enhanced usage metering with a simplified interface, improved resource policy management, improved dataset controls, and UI enhancements to provide greater clarity, control, and productivity for AI teams.

Meet Qlik Answers

Discover how Qlik Answers transforms the way teams work with data. As part of Qlik’s newly released agentic experience in Qlik Cloud, Qlik Answers brings together natural language interaction, the power of the Qlik Analytics Engine, and governed, trusted data, all supported with transparent reasoning and citations.

Why Every AI Deployment Needs a Pre-Flight Data Checklist

You’re in the cockpit of a small plane, cruising a few thousand feet in the air. Then, out of nowhere, the airspeed dips and an alarm rings out. The nose drops, and you're in a full-out stall by the time instinct kicks in. You pull back on the yoke, trying to steady the plane, stop the descent and patch things up midair. But that’s exactly the move that seals your fate, sending you into a deeper spiral.

Qlik for Snowflake - From Ingestion to Insights

In partnership with Snowflake, Qlik helps customers modernize data estates end to end—from ingestion to insight—using Qlik Talend Cloud Data Integration and an internal data marketplace. With no‑code/SQL pipelines, thousands of secure connectors, and built‑in governance and lineage, Qlik automates trusted data movement into Snowflake and turns it into certified, reusable data products—an “app store for insight”—that accelerate time to value and power advanced analytics and AI.