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November 2023

Impacts and Takeaways From the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) have come a long way since their inception in the 1950s. From the pioneering research of English mathematician and logician Alan Turing to the recent breakthroughs achieved by models like GPT-3/GPT-4, AI has undeniably transformed industries and revolutionized human-computer interactions.

Top 17 Business Intelligence Tools Of 2024

All tools on our list have proven to be capable and flexible enough to fit a variety of use cases. So, how do you choose? As you review these options, assess them based on the analytics tools, reporting tools, data management features, and integrations. If you find a cost-effective tool that matches the technical abilities of your team while delivering the backend power you need, you've got a winner. Data analytics makes decision-making five times faster for organizations.

Universal Data Distribution with Cloudera DataFlow for public cloud

The speed at which you move data throughout your organization can be your next competitive advantage. Cloudera DataFlow greatly simplifies your data flow infrastructure facilitating complex data collection and movement through a unified process that seamlessly transfers data throughout your organization. Even as you scale. With Cloudera DataFlow for Public Cloud you can collect and move any data (structured, unstructured, and semi-structured) from any source to any destination with any frequency (real-time streaming, batch, and micro-batch).

Announcing General Availability of Model Registry

In the dynamic world of machine learning operations (MLOps), staying ahead of the curve is essential. That’s why we’re excited to announce the Cloudera Model Registry as generally available, a game-changer that’s set to transform the way you manage your machine learning models in production environments.

Snowflake and the Pursuit Of Precision Medicine

The growing field of precision medicine holds incredible promise for delivering better patient care and medical innovation, but there are barriers to greater implementation. As an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention, precision medicine takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person. Its implementation has primarily been hastened by reducing sequencing costs.

Cloudera's QATS Certification for Dell PowerScale Unleashes a New Era of Data Management

With its rise in popularity generative AI has emerged as a top CEO priority, and the importance of performant, seamless, and secure data management and analytics solutions to power those AI applications is essential. Cloudera Private Cloud Data Services is a comprehensive platform that empowers organizations to deliver trusted enterprise data at scale in order to deliver fast, actionable insights and trusted AI.

How To Use Yellowfin Custom Functions

A Custom Function is a feature in Yellowfin calculated fields that can be used to define a calculation in advance and use that formula by simply specifying arguments. Using Custom Functions, you can define calculations that cannot be created in calculated fields, or define frequently used calculations to save time when creating calculated fields.

Reinventing ERP Insights With Maxa and Snowflake Native Apps

ERP systems run the world’s businesses. These stalwart systems are great at managing records and processes for finance, operations, supply chain management and more. But their insights need an upgrade. That’s the case put forward by Maxa, an enterprise-grade startup that has made it their mission to reinvent the way companies access and use ERP data for transformational insights.

Amazon Bedrock Analytics Sources - Quick Demo (using Anthropic)

Amazon Bedrock is the name of the Amazon service that offers a single API to access foundation models provided by companies such as AI21, Amazon Titan, Anthropic and Cohere, from which you can build generative AI into your Qlik applications without writing any code. With generative AI, organizations can broaden insight and context while adding a variety of new and exciting capabilities directly in analytics apps, load scripts, and through app automations. The analytics connector constructs questions and our unique associative engine passes only relevant data related to those selections, in real-time, allowing users to get contextually relevant responses while minimizing cost and complexity. Automation connectors offer the ability for developers to send questions and receive responses and data sets as part of automation workflows.

Predictions for the Dawning AI Age: What to Expect in 2024 and Beyond

2024 is going to be an important transition year for artificial intelligence. 2023 was the public debut of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), a year of amazement, excitement, occasional panic and, yes, more than a little bit of hype. The year ahead is when businesses begin to make the promise of advanced artificial intelligence real, and we’ll begin seeing the effects on how we work and live.

Unlocking the Power of LLMs | From Introduction to Enterprise Deployment #ai #llm

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI are emerging as transformative tools for enterprises. These innovations are not only changing how we interact with data but are also reshaping the very fabric of business operations. Unlike other public LLMs, what happens in your organization stays in your organization. But with great power comes great responsibility—and the need for in-depth understanding.

The Art of Data Leadership | What is a chief digital officer? #data

Our Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Shayde Christian, sits down for a buzzworthy conversation with Chief Digital Officer Raymond L. Kunik Jr. to discuss the “other” CDO role, the science behind work-life integration, the impact and applications of #AI, and its correlation with a pretty sweet hobby.

CityFibre Integrates and Scales Its Data Estate to Boost Operational Efficiency and Optimize Its Future Network With Snowflake

CityFibre is one of the U.K’.s biggest fibre networks, connecting millions to high-speed broadband. Piyush Shandilya, Data Architect at CityFibre explains how the company uses Snowflake to process and analyze large, integrated data sets at speed, powering future growth and delivering next-gen connectivity. CityFibre is the U.K.’s third largest gigabit network and is predicted to connect 8 million people by 2025.

Remodel Your Oracle Cloud Data with a Data Lakehouse

Continued global digitalization is creating huge quantities of data for modern organizations. To have any hope of generating value from growing data sets, enterprise organizations must turn to the latest technology. You’ve heard of data warehouses, and probable data lakes, but now, the data lakehouse is emerging as the new corporate buzzword. But what is a data lakehouse and how can you make the most of it to transform your Oracle Cloud data for advanced reporting and analytics?

Next-Level Apps with Snowpark Container Services and Snowflake Native Apps

The enterprise app market has been growing faster than ever before, due to the recent spike in demand for AI / ML workloads. These new types of apps operate over large sets of data, have increasingly higher compute demands, require strict data privacy protections, provide very sophisticated web experiences, and need to be secure at all stages of their life cycles. While such apps are being created at a very fast pace, there are two main challenges.

Cloudera and AWS | Delivering New Generative AI Use Cases and Cutting-edge Analytics

AWS and Cloudera share a culture of customer obsession. Together Cloudera and AWS make it easier for customers to move to the cloud due to the deep technical integration. Our most recent collaboration is around the integration of generative AI with Amazon Bedrock which helps customers innovate with a modern data architecture to create new business use cases and leverage cutting-edge analytics. AWS executive David Littlewood, Head of Data and Analytics ISV Partnerships, discuss how collaborating with Cloudera benefits customers along their cloud migration and modern architecture journey.

Unlocking the power of semi-structured data with the JSON Type in BigQuery

Explore the architectural concepts that power BigQuery’s support for semi-structured JSON, which eliminates the need for complex preprocessing and provides schema flexibility, intuitive querying and the scalability benefits, at large scale.

Open Data Lakehouse for Private Cloud Ozone Snapshots

One of the features of the Open Data Lakehouse for Private Cloud is the Ozone compatibility. The snapshot feature for Apache Ozone object store enables you to take a point-in-time consistent image of a given bucket. This feature allows you to have data protection and backup, replication and disaster recovery, and an efficient way to find changes since last replication. Snapshots also help to meet Compliance requirements and have a stable source image for replication.

How Change Data Capture Cuts Costs and Modernises Applications in a Competitive Market

I consider myself pretty lucky: I love technology and get paid to pursue my hobby. I also get to say yes to opportunities that come my way that can increase value to my company and our clients. It was one of these opportunities that led us to adopt change data capture (CDC) technology, resulting in an added value proposition for our customers.

Qlik's AWS re:Invent 2023 Journey: Real-Time Data Integration, Quality, and AI-Powered Analytics Unleashed!

Qlik’s partnership with AWS provides customers with an end-to-end data integration and analytics solution for AWS. Our accelerates data delivery and readiness for analytics from a wide range of enterprise data sources. And our empowers users at any skill level to freely explore all your data and uncover hidden insights. Add to that Qlik Staige and you can find out how we can help modernize with AI.

Using Propel To Accelerate The Process Of Creating Analytics For Web And Mobile Applications

In this episode of “Powered by Snowflake,” host Daniel Myers chats with Nico Acosta, CEO and Co-founder of Propel, about his company’s API platform that’s targeted at developers and engineering teams who build customer-facing analytics into web and mobile applications. This Connected Application makes it easy to use Snowflake data to drive SaaS dashboards, product usage analytics visualizations, intelligent application workflows, and more.

Snowflake Snowday 2023 Highlights

"The most important aspect of what we do is we take complex technologies, complex problems, and make them easy....We have a number of interesting announcements about how the Data Cloud keeps getting more powerful and more exciting for everyone." With those words, Christian Kleinerman, Senior VP of Product, kicks off this video, which highlights some of the key news that came out of Snowday, including the introduction of Snowflake Horizon, Snowflake Cortex, and Snowflake Notebooks.

Generative AI Is The Key To Transforming The Telecom Industry

The telecom industry is undergoing a monumental transformation. The rise of new technologies such as 5G, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT) is putting pressure on telecom operators to find new ways to improve the performance of their networks, reduce costs and provide better customer service. Cost pressures especially are incentivizing telecoms to find new ways to implement automation and more efficient processes to help optimize operations and employee productivity.

insightsoftware Named No. 1 Fastest Growing Company on Business North Carolina's Mid-Market Fast 40 List

Prestigious list recognizes insightsoftware’s hyper-growth as the company expands its comprehensive product suite to meet nearly every financial analytics and reporting requirement RALEIGH, N.C. – Nov. 15, 2023 – insightsoftware, a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions, secured the number one ranking on Business North Carolina’s Mid-Market Fast 40 List.

Tackling Data Sprawl & Mitigating Risks: The Data Dynamics Connection

In today’s fast-paced world, businesses face the challenge of managing the ever-expanding volume of data at their disposal, an issue that often hinders their ability to derive the critical and accurate insights they need to thrive and stay competitive. Driven by the monumental rise of generative AI, cloud services, remote work, and IoT devices, most organizations expect their data to double by 2025.

Qlik announces support with Cloud Data Integration for Microsoft Fabric

With ever increasing data complexity, sources, and targets, enterprises are rightly trying to simplify their data stacks and workflows. Organizations want to build out their data fabrics with elements that work together, rather than spend time integrating various solutions.

Data and AI as the Key to Unlocking Financial Inclusion

Of the many things one might take for granted, access to banking and financial services may not immediately come to mind. But as a thought experiment, imagine trying to buy a home or a car without the ability to take out a loan. Try depending on cash payments from your employer, or relying on alternative banking solutions like short-term payday loans, check-cashing services, and prepaid debit cards.

Top 4 Challenges to Scaling Snowflake for AI

Organizations are transforming their industries through the power of data analytics and AI. A recent McKinsey survey finds that 75% expect generative AI (GenAI) to “cause significant or disruptive change in the nature of their industry’s competition in the next three years.” AI enables businesses to launch innovative new products, gain insights into their business, and boost profitability through technologies that help them outperform competitors.

Announcing Unravel for Snowflake: Faster Time to Business Value in the Data Cloud

Snowflake’s data cloud has expanded to become a top choice among organizations looking to leverage data and AI—including large language models (LLMs) and other types of generative AI—to deliver innovative new products to end users and customers. However, the democratization of AI often leads to inefficient usage that results in a cost explosion and decreases the business value of Snowflake. The inefficient usage of Snowflake can occur at various levels.

Yellowfin 9.10 Release Highlights

With updates to our browser user interface (UI), Stories, report navigation and more, Yellowfin 9.10 is an update that further enhances your users' analytics experience. 9.10 brings significant updates. Browse Page UI has received a sleek makeover, simplifying navigation for reports, dashboards, and presentations, catering to both new and experienced users.

Snowflake Customers Rank Cost-Effectiveness and Ease-of-Use as Top Benefits in New KLAS Research Report

See why Snowflake’s healthcare customers rate the Data Cloud high in performance and cost savings. Each year, KLAS Research interviews thousands of healthcare professionals about the IT solutions and services their organizations use. Since 1996, the analyst firm has been leading the healthcare IT (HIT) industry in providing accurate, honest and impartial insights about vendor solutions and customer satisfaction metrics.

What's New in ThoughtSpot - 9.7.0 Cloud Release

ThoughtSpot Analytics Cloud 9.7.0 is now available! 👉 Bookmark your filters and parameters with Personalized Liveboard Views to access Liveboard data quickly👉 Ask coding questions in natural language and receive contextual GPT-assisted instructions and code with ThoughtSpot AskDocs👉 Version control your analytic content by integrating ThoughtSpot with Git repositories Plus lots of new features and enhancements you’ve been waiting for.

Transforming analytics on the cloud: Supercharge your data applications

Transforming analytics on the cloud: Supercharge your data applications with Databricks, AWS and Unravel Organizations are feeling pressure to launch new data applications faster to meet end-user demand. Cloud data platforms help accelerate launch times with on-demand delivery of infrastructure and pay-as-you-go pricing. Last year, 98% of the overall database management system (DBMS) market growth came from cloud database platform as a service (dbPaaS). 80% of organizations have adopted agile practices to increase their pace of innovation.

Cloudera Operational Database (COD) Performance Benchmarking: Comparing HDFS and Cloud Storage

Have you ever wondered how massive business and consumer apps handle that kind of scale with concurrent users? To deploy high-performance applications at scale, a rugged operational database is essential. Cloudera Operational Database (COD) is a high-performance and highly scalable operational database designed for powering the biggest data applications on the planet at any scale.

How Modern Automotive Companies Can Generate Value With Connected Mobility

From connected cars and fleets of commercial vehicles to connected smart home devices, it’s estimated there are more than 14 billion products equipped with sensors, processors, software and connectivity worldwide—a number that is projected to almost double by 2030.

Snowflake Announces Cyber Essentials Plus Certification

Ensuring a seamless data experience that complies with regulatory frameworks, particularly in the public sector, is crucial. Research from the U.K. government found as many as 32% of businesses and 24% of charities suffered online breaches or cyberattacks in the last 12 months. In this increasingly interconnected world, national stability depends on thoughtful data governance and safeguarding.

Apache Ozone - A Multi-Protocol Aware Storage System

Are you struggling to manage the ever-increasing volume and variety of data in today’s constantly evolving landscape of modern data architectures? The vast tapestry of data types spanning structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data means data professionals need to be proficient with various data formats such as ORC, Parquet, Avro, CSV, and Apache Iceberg tables, to cover the ever growing spectrum of datasets – be they images, videos, sensor data, or other type of media content.

How To Design a Dashboard in Yellowfin: Part One

Designing a dashboard comprises many different considerations. Whether it's the business-user, data expert or business unit building the dashboard, our team aims to create a guide that will be useful for everyone who wants to (or needs to) create a dashboard, but is having some troubles figuring out how to do it. In this latest series of blogs, the Yellowfin Japan team takes the lead in introducing the process of creating a new dashboard in Yellowfin.

5 Reasons Why Retail Media Is the Smart Approach for Online Retailers

To say the global retail market is challenging today would be a gross understatement. A rising cost of living, demanding consumer expectations, supply chain disruption and unforeseen public health crises like COVID-19 all contribute to the erosion of retailers’ bottom lines. However, retail media has in recent years emerged as an increasingly promising guard against these economic uncertainties and can even serve as a profitable revenue stream.

Snowflake And The Industry Solution Play Program.

The Snowflake Industry Solution Play Program is here and we want you to know all about it. Snowflake has developed a sales, marketing and technical program that allows our customers to harness the expertise of our Partner ecosystem and the Snowflake Data Cloud to transform how we do business today and into the future.

Set Analysis Redux: Do More with Qlik Episode 47

Set analysis in Qlik is a powerful data filtering and aggregation technique that allows users to create custom data subsets for analysis. It enables users to define complex criteria, known as set expressions, to isolate specific data points or dimensions within their Qlik applications. This feature is instrumental in performing advanced data manipulation, and it just got even easier with Qlik’s new AI enhancements.

Announcing New Innovations for Data Warehouse, Data Lake, and Data Lakehouse in the Data Cloud

Over the years, the technology landscape for data management has given rise to various architecture patterns, each thoughtfully designed to cater to specific use cases and requirements. These patterns include both centralized storage patterns like data warehouse, data lake and data lakehouse, and distributed patterns such as data mesh. Each of these architectures has its own unique strengths and tradeoffs.

Announcing New Innovations for Snowflake Horizon

Snowflake’s single, cross-cloud governance model has always been a powerful differentiator, enabling customers to manage their increasingly complex data ecosystems with simplicity and ease. As a result, Snowflake is enhancing its governance capabilities that thousands of customers already rely on through Snowflake Horizon. Snowflake Horizon is Snowflake’s built-in governance solution with a unified set of compliance, security, privacy, interoperability, and access capabilities.

Better Manage and Optimize Your Snowflake Spend In One Place With the New Cost Management Interface

In the ever-evolving world of data management, Snowflake is at the forefront of empowering our customers to make informed decisions about data while ensuring cost efficiency and control. Admins know that managing and optimizing platform costs can be a complex and time-consuming task. To help them more intuitively understand, control and optimize spend from one centralized place, Snowflake is introducing the new Cost Management Interface (private preview).

Build and deploy ML with ease Using Snowpark ML, Snowflake Notebooks, and Snowflake Feature Store

Snowflake has invested heavily in extending the Data Cloud to AI/ML workloads, starting in 2021 with the introduction of Snowpark, the set of libraries and runtimes in Snowflake that securely deploy and process Python and other popular programming languages.

Harness the Power of Pinecone with Cloudera's New Applied Machine Learning Prototype

At Cloudera, we continuously strive to empower organizations to unlock the full potential of their data, catalyzing innovation and driving actionable insights. And so we are thrilled to introduce our latest applied ML prototype (AMP)—a large language model (LLM) chatbot customized with website data using Meta’s Llama2 LLM and Pinecone’s vector database.