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September 2023

AI-Enhanced Features to Transform your Business - Do More with Qlik Episode 46

Insight Advisor – our intelligent AI-assistant supports a variety of advanced insight generation and automation experiences including search driven insights, conversational analytics, and analysis types – our unique framework for choosing a type of advanced analysis and generating visualizations, NLG, and even smart sheets. You’ll get a look at key driver analysis, to uncover the factors driving a selected metric. And you’ll get a deeper dive into how you can customize insight generation and natural language processing through our business logic layer.

Qlik CEO Mike Capone Discusses Data-Driven Leadership & Empowering Asian Enterprises with Innovation

Join us in this insightful Ask Me Anything session as Qlik CEO, Mike Capone, delves into the world of data-driven leadership. Discover how Qlik is at the forefront of meeting the escalating demand of Asian Enterprises for innovation through the strategic use of data, technology, and analytics. Stay tuned for valuable insights and practical approaches to driving success in today's data-driven landscape.

AI Won't Replace Humans - But It Will Change How We Make Decisions

Have you heard the phrase “AI won't replace humans - but humans with AI will replace humans without AI”? I personally love this quote because it perfectly encapsulates the nature of the anticipated workforce shift from the rise of generative AI. As I wrote back in 2017, the power of AI is not about machines supplanting human abilities, but rather about a symbiotic relationship between humans and AI. I think the Star Trek analogy I used then is standing the test of time…

Shared Data Reporting: Deep Excel Functionality Meets Web-Based Dashboards

Finance teams are no strangers to pressure. But now more than ever, challenges from both outside and inside organizations are testing your resiliency. Inflation, economic uncertainty, and swiftly-changing regulations significantly impact finance professionals. Every organization has roadblocks like budgetary restraints, data limitations, and clunky, manual processes.

Strengthening Your Data Ecosystem with Unrivaled Security

As data ecosystems evolve security becomes a paramount concern, especially within the realm of private cloud environments. Cloudera on Private Cloud with the Private Cloud Base (CDP PvC Base) stands as a beacon of innovation in the realm of data security, offering a holistic suite of features that work in concert to safeguard sensitive information.

Empowering Seamless Data Governance with a New User Experience in Snowsight

At Snowflake, we are dedicated to helping our customers effectively mobilize their data while upholding stringent standards for compliance and data governance. We understand the importance of quick and proactive identification of objects requiring governance, as well as the implementation of protective measures using tags and policies.

Empower data with BigQuery & Looker

If you’re working with large amounts of data, and looking for guidance on how to build a data warehouse in Google Cloud using BigQuery- this new Jump Start Solution is for you! In this video, we’ll walk you through the Jump Start Solution that combines BigQuery as your data warehouse and Looker Studio as a dashboard and visualization tool.

IBM Technology Chooses Cloudera as its Preferred Partner for Addressing Real Time Data Movement Using Kafka

Organizations increasingly rely on streaming data sources not only to bring data into the enterprise but also to perform streaming analytics that accelerate the process of being able to get value from the data early in its lifecycle. As lakehouse architectures (including offerings from Cloudera and IBM) become the norm for data processing and building AI applications, a robust streaming service becomes a critical building block for modern data architectures.

3 Ways to Replace Distrust of Your SAP Data With Confidence

Unlocking the full potential of your SAP solution requires the complete trust of your data. Without trust, users will second guess any insights, stalling business progress. Research has pinpointed three key pain points that companies encounter with their SAP data: a prevailing sense of data distrust, a lack of maintenance and data cleansing, and a shortage of skilled users. These pain points not only impede progress but also pose significant roadblocks to migrating to S/4HANA, the future of SAP.

What is Multi-Tenancy? Understanding Multi-tenant Analytics

Multi-tenancy is a concept that refers to the ability of a software application or system to serve multiple tenants, or customers, on a shared infrastructure. In simpler terms, it is the capability of a single instance of a software application to accommodate multiple users or organizations, each with their own datasets and customization options.

Driving Data Discovery and Reliability for Better Business Decision Making

Enterprises are drowning in data. Structured, semi-structured or unstructured data for the modern, data-driven enterprise is everything, everywhere, all at once. But that’s also a challenge for enterprises looking to transform their data into usable information for business success. The sheer volume of data is challenging the ability of enterprises to find trustworthy, reliable data to drive their business decisions. Traditional data catalogs offer only structured data discovery.

Bridge the Gap Between Reporting and Data Visualization in Power BI

In a rapidly evolving business environment, timely insights from data and the ability to react quickly to change are critical. Business intelligence is a key tool, empowering companies to get the most out of their data by providing tools to analyze information, streamline operations, track performance, and inform decision-making. Power BI can generate easy-to-read visualizations that help stakeholders perform key analysis.

Unlocking New Capabilities with ChatGPT in Logi Symphony

In today’s fast-paced market, data has become the lifeblood of decision-making. For application teams and users, having access to insightful and actionable data is not just a luxury; it’s a necessity. And now, the proliferation of AI in embedded analytics, like Logi Symphony’s new ChatGPT integration, is revolutionizing the way application teams and users interact with data, increasing efficiency and reducing the technical skills required to generate valuable insights.

AI Like a Rockstar

Although it might seem a little early, I was just thinking: what will 2023 be remembered for? For many it will be the year that Beyonce and Taylor Swift took to stages around the world and pushed the boundaries of live music (I’m a confirmed Swiftie if you didn’t know). It is also the year of AI. When I speak with customers, they all talk about how they are steering towards AI adoption.

Snowflake Customer 360 For Organizations

In today’s highly competitive market, consumers are more likely to stick with brands and businesses that recognize their wants and needs. Achieving this level of personalization requires companies to have a 360-degree view of customers or Customer 360. Learn how the Snowflake Data Cloud helps companies activate data to improve customer experiences by powering Customer 360.

Think Your Company Doesn't Need a Chief Data Officer? Here Are 7 Reasons Why It Does

Perhaps your C-suite is already a bit crowded. The typical hierarchy will include a CEO, COO, CFO, CTO, CMO, CIO, and a few more. Adding another position may not be terribly appealing, but there is one C-suite role every company should consider—chief data and analytics officer (CDO or CDAO).

Do the Benefits of Cloud Outweigh the Costs?

Companies are now making a decisive shift from traditional on-premises Oracle software to Oracle’s cutting-edge cloud solutions. In fact, a recent Gartner report on cloud expenditure found that cross-industry cloud spend has risen from 8% as a percentage of total IT spend in 2018 to 16% in 2022. Worldwide spending on public cloud services is expected to grow by 21.7% in 2023.

Yellowfin vs Power BI: What's the Difference?

Adopting a new business intelligence (BI) solution requires a thorough understanding of its feature-set and functionality in order to ensure analytics is integrated into your business as seamlessly as possible and that the value of your new tool is realized. Previously, we have covered how Yellowfin can be used with Power BI as a complementary solution.

AWS, Qlik, and SAP Data: Turning the Lifeblood of Business into Value and Action

One of my favorite analogies is that data is the lifeblood of the business. Before you roll your eyes at me (I see it now), hear me out. At your annual physical, when you get your blood work done, think of how much information is uncovered about your overall health from a tiny vial of your blood. From those 10 CCs they extract comes back pages of information regarding your cell counts, glucose, cholesterol, and other information.

Technology Spotlight: Open Data Lakehouse for Private Cloud

Cloudera emphasizes the importance of trusted data for reliable AI. We've introduced Open Data Lakehouse for private cloud, incorporating Apache Iceberg for enhanced data management and security. This empowers analysts and data scientists with direct access to all data, including real-time streaming. Iceberg's capabilities reduce silos, lower storage costs, and mitigate business risks. We also focus on scalability, introducing features like snapshots and user quotas in Apache Ozone. Cloudera prioritizes enterprise readiness with Zero Downtime Upgrades and broader hardware and software support.

Telecommunications Data Monetization Strategies in 5G and beyond with Cloudera and AWS

The world is awash with data, no more so than in the telecommunications (telco) industry. With some Cloudera customers ingesting multiple petabytes of data every single day— that’s multiple thousands of terabytes!—there is the potential to understand, in great detail, how people, businesses, cities and ecosystems function.

Fine-Tuning a Foundation Model for Multiple Tasks

In this video we discuss the reasons why fine-tuning is needed to create mroe contextual accurate LLMs, and the methods that you can do to accomplish this. We also give a demo of our newest Applied ML Prototype (AMP) which demonstrates how to implement LLM fine-tuning jobs that make use of the QLoRA and Accelerate implementations available in the PEFT open-source library from Huggingface and an example application that swaps the fine-tuned adapters in real time for inference targetting different tasks. Learn more at cloudera.com#ai #ml.

Revolutionize Your Data Experience With Cloudera on Private Cloud

In the age of the AI revolution, where chatbots, generative AI, and large language models (LLMs) are taking the business world by storm, enterprises are fast realizing the need for strong data control and privacy to protect their confidential and commercially sensitive data, while still providing access to this data for context-specific AI insights.

Marketing Success in the Age of AI Requires a Modern Marketing Data Stack

Data is essential to marketing. It’s how we know our audience and measure campaign outcomes. It shows us where to adjust a campaign on the fly, for even better results. But working with data is increasingly complex, and having the right stack of technologies is invaluable.

Snowflake's Annual Modern Marketing Data Stack Report: Talend Being Named a "Leader in Integration and Modeling" is Just the Beginning

With marketing analytics now influencing more than half (53%) of marketing decisions, there’s finally some good information around using data in marketing. In fact, Gartner found that when analytics influences less than 50% of decisions, organizations find it challenging to prove the value of their marketing.

FinOps Camp Episode 3: Considerations for Mapping your FinOps Adventure

FinOps Camp Episode 3: Considerations for Mapping your FinOps Adventure Program elements, use cases, and principles to manage cloud data costs Join SanjMo Principal and Founder Sanjeev Mohan and Unravel VP of Solutions Engineering Chris Santiago as we share considerations for mapping your FinOps Adventure.Creating a solid FinOps strategy is crucial to navigating the rapidly-evolving world of cloud services.

Snowflake's Annual Modern Marketing Data Stack Report: Being Named a "Leader in Integration and Modeling" is Just the Beginning

With marketing analytics now influencing more than half (53%) of marketing decisions, there’s finally some good data around using data in marketing. In fact, Gartner found that when analytics influences less than 50% of decisions, organizations find it challenging to prove the value of their marketing.

Power Holistic Customer Insights with Salesforce and Snowflake Data Sharing-Based Integration

Snowflake and Salesforce have built on our existing partnership to unify the full breadth of customer and business data and generate actionable insights for our customers. We are happy to announce the general availability of Bring Your Own Lake (BYOL) Data Sharing with the Snowflake Data Cloud from Salesforce Data Cloud. Organizations can now leverage Salesforce data directly in Snowflake via zero-ETL data sharing to accelerate decision-making and help streamline business processes.

SaaS in 60 - Expression Generator

Insight Advisor Expression Generation - As we expand the breadth and depth of our Insight Advisor AI-assistant capabilities, we now offer auto-generated expressions in the expression editor driven by natural language processing. Users seeking to create analytics expressions, including complex set analysis, can simply describe what they want to calculate and Insight Advisor will generate the expression to use. This powerful capability delivers on the promise of AI, making the complex simple and allowing more people to expand their data literacy.

Staige AI-Enhanced - Spark Your Own AI Innovations

Qlik Staige, a unified strategy to provide AI-enhanced solutions to enterprises while confidently embracing the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Qlik Staige helps customers innovate and move faster by making secure, governed AI and automation part of everything they can do with Qlik – from experimenting with and implementing generative AI models, to developing AI-powered predictions to improve future outcomes, to driving better insights into their business.

Not All Natural Language Query (NLQ) Models Are Created Equal: Part 3 - Power BI Q&A

In part one of this series, we discussed the evolution of Yellowfin’s Guided NLQ solution and focused on aspects of Guided NLQ that stand apart from the competition. In part two, we then compared Guided NLQ to Sisense's equivalent NLQ solution, Sisense Simply Ask. In part three, we will look deeper at another competitor’s NLQ offering, Microsoft Power BI and its Q&A feature.

A Hybrid, Open Data Lakehouse That Can Handle it All

Open more possibilities with an open data lakehouse. As the industry’s first open data lakehouse, Cloudera Data Platform delivers scalable performance and efficiency to enable smarter business decisions—paving the safest, fastest path from data to AI. Cloudera, together with Intel and HPE, can power analytics and AI at scale across any CSP or private cloud infrastructure.

Red Hat + Cloudera | A Hybrid Data Platform for Generative AI for FSI

Red Hat and Cloudera have joined forces to enable customers to take advantage of the cloud with full confidence, especially in the financial services industry, where data protection is critical. Red Hat Payment Industry Lead, Ramon Villarreal describes how collaborating with Cloudera provides leading financial services organizations with data resiliency, performance and expedited time to market as they leverage the cloud to move and manipulate massive amounts of data.

How Financial Services and Insurance Streamline AI Initiatives with a Hybrid Data Platform

With the emergence of new creative AI algorithms like large language models (LLM) fromOpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, Meta’s LLaMa, and Bloomberg’s BloombergGPT—awareness, interest and adoption of AI use cases across industries is at an all time high. But in highly regulated industries where these technologies may be prohibited, the focus is less on off the shelf generative AI, and more on the relationship between their data and how AI can transform their business.

Sprint2Cloud: A Quicker Way to Get Through Cloud Migrations

In today’s high-velocity digital arena, businesses are thrust into the whirlwind of global events, rapid technological advancements, and the incessant push for innovation. Yet, amidst the tempest of mergers, digital acceleration, and shifting tech paradigms, charting a confident path towards cloud migration can be daunting.

Streaming Pipelines With Snowflake Explained In 2 Minutes

Streaming data has been historically complex and costly to work with. That's no longer the case with Snowflake's streaming capabilities. Together, Snowpipe Streaming and Dynamic Tables (in public preview) break the barrier between batch and streaming systems. Now you can build low-latency data pipelines with serverless row-set ingestion and declarative pipelines with SQL. You can easily adapt to your business requirements to change latency as a single parameter.

Securely Connect to LLMs and Other External Services from Snowpark

Snowpark is the set of libraries and runtimes that enables data engineers, data scientists and developers to build data engineering pipelines, ML workflows, and data applications in Python, Java, and Scala. Functions or procedures written by users in these languages are executed inside of Snowpark’s secure sandbox environment, which runs on the warehouse.

Expanding Possibilities: Cloudera's Teen Accelerator Program Completes Its Second Year

At Cloudera, we’re known for making innovative technological solutions that drive change and impact the world. Our mission is to make data and analytics easy and accessible to everyone. And that doesn’t end with our customer base. We also aim to provide equitable access to career opportunities within data and analytics to the workforce of tomorrow.

Snowpark ML: The 'Easy Button' for Open Source LLM Deployment in Snowflake

Companies want to train and use large language models (LLMs) with their own proprietary data. Open source generative models such as Meta’s Llama 2 are pivotal in making that possible. The next hurdle is finding a platform to harness the power of LLMs. Snowflake lets you apply near-magical generative AI transformations to your data all in Python, with the protection of its out-of-the-box governance and security features.

The Hidden Costs of Embedded Analytics: A Pricing Comparison

Embedded analytics solutions have become increasingly popular in recent years, as more organizations across multiple sectors recognize the value of integrating advanced business intelligence (BI) and analytical capabilities into their existing software applications. Such solutions allow for deeper insights from data to make more informed decisions - this is well established.

Apache Ozone Odyssey | Exploring the Future of Scalable Storage with Apache Ozone.

This collaborative meetup was designed to bring together individuals interested in exploring the basics of Apache Ozone. Expert Ozone developer Nandakumar Vadivelu will guide you through the basics of setting up and configuring Ozone, as well as highlighting its key features and benefits. Begining with an overview of Apache Ozone's fundamentals, diving into its architecture and core components. This session is perfect for those who are new to Ozone or want to explore its potential as a highly scalable and efficient storage solution.

Installing MiNiFi agents has never been so easy!

This video walks you through one of the new features coming with Edge Flow Manager 1.6.0: the one-line installer command. Did you ever think that installing a MiNiFi (C++ or Java) agent was complicated? Did you ever struggle with generating and configuring the certificates for mTLS communication between the agents and Edge Flow Manager?

Creating a data-driven culture with self service and data literacy

In this segment, Geraldine Wong, CDO of GXS Bank, explains how her bank's data strategy aims to promote inclusion through superior data insights and AI, but achieving this requires building a data-driven culture by providing employees the right tools, access, and knowledge about the data.

The Benefits, Challenges and Risks of Predictive Analytics for Your Application

In this modern, turbulent market, predictive analytics has become a key feature for analytics software customers. Predictive analytics refers to the use of historical data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to predict what will happen in the future. This ability to analyze and predict future scenarios sets certain applications apart from the pack, offering application teams significant advantage in a competitive market.