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March 2024

Tabular Reporting for NPrinting Users - Do More with Qlik

Join Michael Tarallo, along with special guests Product Manager Andrew Kruger and Principal Platform Architect Johnny Poole, for part 2 of Qlik Tabular Reporting. In this session, the focus shifts to the migration path for NPrinting users, exploring available utilities, migration paths and best practices for a seamless transition.

What is the Augmented Consumer? Understanding Users of AI Analytics

The rise of AI-powered features in today’s analytics solutions has increasingly displaced our reliance on dashboards by making it easier for business people to analyze their data. With this rising paradigm shift, a new label has emerged: The augmented consumer. On a surface-level, the word ‘augmented’ may conjure up a variety of different interpretations. AI-based dashboard assistants? Natural language-led reporting?

Best CFO KPIs and Dashboards for the 2024 CFO

What is kpi in business? A CFO Key Performance Indicator (KPI) or metric is a quantifiable high level measure of financial performance. These KPIs can be considered a specific subset of financial KPIs, used to help a CFO make informed decisions that steer their company in the right direction. These performance metrics can also be used to measure a company’s financial performance relative to competitors in the same industry.

Snowflake Data Clean Rooms: Securely Collaborate to Unlock Insights and Value

In December 2023, Snowflake announced its acquisition of data clean room technology provider Samooha. Samooha’s intuitive UI and focus on reducing the complexity of sharing data led to it being named one of the most innovative data science companies of 2024 by Fast Company. Now, Samooha’s offering is integrated into Snowflake and launched as Snowflake Data Clean Rooms, a Snowflake Native App on Snowflake Marketplace, generally available to customers in AWS East, AWS West and Azure West.

Data Architecture and Strategy in the AI Era

At a time when AI is exploding in popularity and finding its way into nearly every facet of business operations, data has arguably never been more valuable. More recently, that value has been made clear by the emergence of AI-powered technologies like generative AI (GenAI) and the use of Large Language Models (LLMs).

The Essential Role of a Data Steward in Modern Business Intelligence

At the intersection of data management and business strategy lies the data steward. Tasked with safeguarding data integrity and enabling informed business intelligence, data stewards are fundamental to modern organizations. They ensure data is clean, compliant, and utilized effectively. Our exploration will detail the crucial role of data stewardship in navigating and leveraging an enterprise’s data landscape.

Snowflake Invests in Observe to Expand Observability in the Data Cloud

As organizations seek to drive more value from their data, observability plays a vital role in ensuring the performance, security and reliability of applications and pipelines while helping to reduce costs. At Snowflake, we aim to provide developers and engineers with the best possible observability experience to monitor and manage their Snowflake environment. One of our partners in this area is Observe, which offers a SaaS observability product that is built and operated on the Data Cloud.

Predict Known Categorical Outcomes with Snowflake Cortex ML Classification, Now in Public Preview

Today, enterprises are focused on enhancing decision-making with the power of AI and machine learning (ML). But the complexity of ML models and data science techniques often leaves behind organizations without data scientists or with limited data science resources. And for those organizations with strong data analyst resources, complex ML models and frameworks may seem overwhelming, potentially preventing them from driving faster, higher-quality insights.

Connecting Space and Data: NASA's Asteroid Dust Quest and AI Innovation

Perhaps it's the awe-inspiring films about space exploration (my personal favorite – Apollo 13) that evoke the image of NASA as a place buzzing with activity, filled with screens displaying data, charts, and ALWAYS a big countdown clock. However, one of NASA's most recent challenges may surprise you - the task of cracking open a billion-dollar canister filled with ancient asteroid dust.

Don't Get Left Behind in the AI Race: Your Easy Starting Point is Here

The ongoing progress in Artificial Intelligence is constantly expanding the realms of possibility, revolutionizing industries and societies on a global scale. The release of LLMs surged by 136% in 2023 compared to 2022, and this upward trend is projected to continue in 2024. Today, 44% of organizations are experimenting with generative AI, with 10% having already implemented it in operational settings. Companies must act now in order to stay in the AI Race.

insightsoftware Platform - Multi Environment Feature

Efficiency means doing things right. The multi-environment feature introduced in the insightsoftware Platform underlines this. It enables you to assign licenses per environment to a specific user, ensuring the most efficient distribution your licenses that suits your unique requirements.

Qlik AutoML Update - March 2024

Automated free text feature engineering uses sophisticated algorithms under the hood to allows far better prediction from free text fields. This complements the date feature engineering capability we released last year, which automatically parses dates into usable features. Organizations now have role-based access control for AutoML users. We’ve added two new user roles to support AutoML – experiment contributors and deployment contributors, which can be assigned to specific users or groups. With this, you can now control and limit access to AutoML to the right types of users.

Insightsoftware Named Top AI-Powered Business Intelligence Provider

The results are in – Logi Symphony by insightsoftware has been named as a top business intelligence (BI) solution in Info-Tech’s latest Data Quadrant Report. The report names the top seven BI providers for midmarket and enterprise businesses. This year, Info-Tech has turned its focus to BI solutions that implement artificial intelligence (AI) to drive informed decision-making. The report includes data from 4,241 end-user reviews to find the top BI software providers of 2024.

16 Top Hospital KPIs for 2024 Reporting

A hospital key performance indicator (KPI) is a quantifiable measure that monitors the quality of healthcare provided by the hospital and measures the overall success of the business. Like many other service providers, hospitals depend on their customers (patients) to run their business. However, in order to thrive, they must also operate sustainably and mange costs. A successful hospital runs efficiently, provides life saving services and plays a valuable role in driving public health measures.

Leveraging AI and Analytics in Your Data Privacy Program

In an age of rapid technological transformation, governments are playing regulatory catch-up as they try to keep pace with technological developments and the increasing amount of personal identifiable information (“PII”) generated by our every-day lives. Privacy laws regulating the use of PII continue to strengthen (Gartner estimates that while 10% of the world’s population was covered by comprehensive privacy laws in 2020, by year-end 2024 it will be 75%).

15 Best Non-Profit KPIs and Metric Examples for 2024 Reporting

What is a kpi? A non-profit key performance indicator (KPI) is a numerical measurement that gauges the ability of a non-profit organization in accomplishing its mission. Non-profit metrics quantify the organization’s many endeavors in extending its impact on society. The spirit of KPIs generated for a non-profit organization is not unlike a for-profit business.

Combine data across BigQuery and Salesforce Data Cloud securely with zero ETL

We are excited that bidirectional data sharing between BigQuery and Salesforce Data Cloud is now generally available. This will make it easy for customers to enrich their data use cases by combining data across different platforms securely, without the additional cost of building or managing data infrastructure and complex ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines.

10+ Government KPIs for 2024 Reporting

What is a key performance indicator? A government key performance indicator (KPI) is a quantifiable measure that the public sector uses to evaluate its performance. Government KPIs function like KPIs used by for-profit businesses — they demonstrate the organization’s overall performance and its accountability to its stakeholders. In more layman terms, public sector KPIs serve two important purposes.

Cloudera's RHEL-volution: Powering the Cloud with Red Hat

As enterprise AI technologies rapidly reshape our digital environment, the foundation of your cloud infrastructure is more critical than ever. That’s why Cloudera and Red Hat, renowned for their open-source solutions, have teamed up to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to Cloudera on public cloud as the operating system for all of our public cloud platform images. Let’s dive into what this means and why it’s a game-changer for our customers.

Qlik's most underrated capabilities

Qlik is a vital and powerful analytics tool that’s used by companies across every sector, including gaming giant SEGA, and the company continues to improve its offerings, from SaaS to cloud solutions. With an ever-growing collection of capabilities, there are bound to be a few features that even the most expert Qlik users may not utilize. That’s why we’ve put together a list of the most underrated Qlik capabilities that every data master (and junior!) should know.

Introducing Spreadsheet Server's Biznet Conversion Tool

Experience seamless reporting transformation with Spreadsheet Server's Biznet Conversion Tool. In this video, discover how Biznet/XL Connect Customers can effortlessly convert BizSuperfunc formulas into.edq files, ensuring compatibility with Spreadsheet Server's GEXQ formulas. Follow along as we explore each step of the conversion process, from opening workbooks to reviewing detailed results. Say goodbye to compatibility issues and manual updates, and unlock the full potential of your reporting process. Watch now and take your reporting to the next level!

Introducing Angles Professional's Drill Through Feature

This video introduces the new Drill Through feature in Angles Professional, aimed at enhancing user experience and efficiency. Join us as we explore how this feature streamlines data analysis and visualization, empowering users to navigate seamlessly between visuals and gain deeper insights into their data.

The Sliding Doors for Managing Data

In this blog series, I am exploring the “sliding doors”, or divergent paths, for creating value with data across different use cases, practices, and strategies. In this post, I want to discuss how to generate value with Data Products. As I reviewed in my last blog, grabbing the door to the better path for managing your data isn’t just about solving your particular use case: it’s ultimately about delivering value for your business.

Snowflake Brings Gen AI to Images, Video and More With Multimodal Language Models from Reka in Snowflake Cortex

Snowflake is committed to helping our customers unlock the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive better decisions, improve productivity and reach more customers using all types of data. Large Language Models (LLMs) are a critical component of generative AI applications, and multimodal models are an exciting category that allows users to go beyond text and incorporate images and video into their prompts to get a better understanding of the context and meaning of the data.

Predicting the Generative AI Revolution Requires Learning From Our Past

Having frequently worked with governments around the world over the course of my career, I’ve had all kinds of discussions about the global impact of generative AI. Today, I’m publicly wading into those waters to deliver my perspective, and my opinion is that … it’s incredibly hard to predict the future. Done. Wrapped up this entire post in a single sentence.

Demystifying Data Strategy with Ehrar Jameel #datastrategy

Join Ehrar Jameel, Head of Data and Analytics, as he demystifies the concept of data strategy in this enlightening snippet from our Art of Data Leadership series. In this segment, Ehrar delves into the fundamental question: What is a data strategy? Ready to delve deeper into the world of data leadership? Click here for the full Art of Data Leadership playlist and gain invaluable insights from Ehrar and other industry experts.

The Modern Data Streaming Pipeline: Streaming Reference Architectures and Use Cases Across 7 Industries

Executives across various industries are under pressure to reach insights and make decisions quickly. This is driving the importance of streaming data and analytics, which play a crucial role in making better-informed decisions that likely lead to faster, better outcomes.

Achieve faster time to value with data observability and FinOps for BigQuery

Right now, 88% of companies surveyed are failing to achieve optimal price/performance for their analytics workloads. Why? They don’t have the staff, their skilled engineers spend too much time doing toilsome work, and optimizing data workloads for performance and efficiency. With this in mind, Unravel is hosting a virtual event to help you leverage Unravel to achieve productivity, performance, and cost efficiency with BigQuery.

6 Ways Qlik Can Improve Databricks Performance and AI Initiatives

Data engineers and architects are being asked to do more with their enterprise data than ever before. Yet, the knowledge gap between what businesses want to do with data and how they can accomplish it is growing daily—especially considering today's AI hype cycle. With all that noise in the market, it's easy to see how organizations struggle to keep pace with innovation.

How to Add a 'Back to Top' Button to Your Yellowfin Dashboard

Welcome back to Yellowfin Japan’s ‘How to?’ blog series! In our previous blog, we went through how to create big number and vertical column charts in Yellowfin, and the many different charting options available in Yellowfin Canvas. Before we re-visit our regular series, we want to share a shorter dashboard walkthrough.

Why a Solid Data Foundation Is the Key to Successful Gen AI

Think back just a few years ago when most enterprises were either planning or just getting started on their cloud journeys. The pandemic hit and, virtually overnight, the need to radically change ways of working pushed those cloud journeys into overdrive. Cost-effective adaptability was essential. And the companies that could scale up or scale down quickly were the ones that navigated the pandemic successfully. Migrating to the cloud made that possible.

A Stitch in Time: How Jet Analytics Boosts Microsoft Fabric Time-to-Value

Microsoft recently introduced a comprehensive analytics solution for its enterprise customers, Microsoft Fabric. The solution offers data movement, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence within a single platform. Microsoft Fabric offers a unified platform for data engineering, science, and analytics, integrating data from Power BI, Azure Synapse, and Azure Data Factory, and using open storage for accessibility and portability.

Minimize Tech Debt Risk with Embedded BI

Tech debt is the cost of choosing quick solutions over better ones, requiring future rework. It is a fact of life for developers–when work piles up and deadlines approach, you prioritize what’s most important. In the short term, taking the easy road keeps your release schedule on track and your applications running smoothly, at least on the surface.

How Embedded Analytics Drives Product-Led Growth

Achieving product-led growth (PLG) is a continuous goal for independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprises aiming to scale efficiently and sustainably. The challenge is differentiating your product enough in a crowded market to retain users, and unlock new revenue streams. Traditional approaches to product-led growth often fall short in meeting the dynamic needs of today's data-driven users, who seek immediate, actionable insights within the applications they use.

Mapbox Snowflake Native App Opens Geospatial Analytics to New Audiences

Geospatial data can give a business a competitive edge — especially when it’s combined with the company’s own data resources. Considering a new store location? You’ll want to analyze not just where your nearest competitors and potential customers are, but also retail footfall numbers, historical traffic patterns, distance from distribution centers, environmental factors, potential delivery times to customers and more. You need geospatial data to make it all happen.

The Benefits of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

Making sense of the ever-growing mountains of data is a challenge that organizations of all sizes face today. This article explores the powerful synergy between data warehousing and business intelligence, demonstrating how they work hand-in-hand to transform raw data into actionable insights. We’ll also delve into the role of APIs in facilitating real-time data integration and automation. Here are the key things to know about data warehousing and business intelligence: Table of Contents.

How Financial Services and Retail Companies Are Accelerating their Data, Apps and AI Strategy in the Data Cloud

Last year, we held our first Accelerate event, to explore industry trends, data and technology innovations, and data strategy case studies in financial services. This year, we are expanding to five industry events, featuring leaders in financial services; retail and consumer goods; manufacturing; media, advertising and entertainment; and healthcare and life sciences. Accelerate Financial Services and Accelerate Retail are one-day virtual events brought to you by Microsoft.

The Snowflake Government & Education Data Cloud

In order to deliver on their missions, public agencies and departments must modernize IT to improve citizen services, streamline operational inefficiencies, drive research and innovation, and enable data collaboration across and beyond organizational lines. Unfortunately, the ability of public sector organizations to generate value from data is hindered by several challenges, including technical delays caused by legacy IT infrastructure, policy roadblocks, and institutional status quos. The public sector needs a protected, scalable, and flexible platform to centralize, govern, and securely share mission-critical data.

Calumo Demo Flyover

Calumo from insightsoftware is an all in one budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and dashboard tool for all of your XP and A needs. Whether it's financial dashboards or dashboards by product, experience guided analytics, giving people instant access to the data they need, such as this profit and loss. Calumo gives near real time access to your actual data, as well as the capability to plan.

Sphere Entertainment And Hitachi Vantara Reveal New Details On Powering High-resolution Video Content At Sphere

Hitachi Vantara helps stream immersive content on Sphere's 160,000 square-foot interior LED display and 580,000 square-foot Exosphere. Hitachi Vantara's software technology processes Sphere's original content with speed and reliability.

AI and RAG with Gemma, Ollama, and Logi Symphony

Local LLMs are becoming mainstream with sites like HuggingFace promoting open sharing of trained LLMs. These LLMs are often very small but still extremely accurate, especially for domain-specific tasks like medicine, finance, law, and others. Gemma is a multi-purpose LLM and, while small, is competitive and accurate. Local LLMs also have the advantage of being completely run inside your own environment.

Establishing A Robust Data Foundation To Maximize The Benefits Of Gen AI

Newly appointed Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy joins Snowflake's Director of Engineering Mona Attariyan and "Data Cloud Now" anchor Ryan Green to discuss the need for organizations to prepare themselves to take full advantage of Gen AI by implementing a carefully developed data strategy that eliminates data silos and promotes data sharing while protecting data privacy.

Dashboard design: 5 essential tips and considerations for 2024

A beautiful dashboard requires careful consideration for the audience throughout its design. Here are 5 essential considerations and tips for better looking dashboards. For many people, it can be hard to interpret data if it isn’t presented in a simplified way. They get cognitive overload, intimidated by what’s on screen, or misinterpret what you intend to communicate. Often, they may not use dashboards for their work altogether.

How Financial Services Should Prepare for Generative AI

It’s no surprise that ever since ChatGPT’s broader predictive capabilities were made available to the public in November 2022, the sprawl of stakeholder capitalization on large language models (LLMs) has permeated nearly every sector of modern industry, accompanied or exacerbated by collective fascination. Financial services is no exception. But what might this transformation look like, from practical applications to potential risks?

Exploring The Benefits Of Elysium Analytics's Open Data Model

"Powered by Snowflake" host Phoebe He sits down with Satish Abburi, Founder and CTO of Elysium Analytics, to discuss his company's modern log analytics platform, which seamlessly offers scalable search, security, and observability solutions powered by open-source tools and the Snowflake Data Platform. For more information about Elysium Analytics, go to: To connect with Satish Abburi, go to.

How Apps Bring Gen AI & LLMs To Life

In this conversation with Snowflake's Christian Kleinerman, Amanda Kelly, and Adrien Treuille, "Data Cloud Now" anchor Ryan Green discusses the origins of Streamlit, its exponential growth as an application development tool since being acquired by Snowflake, and the important role it is playing in the development of machine learning models across all industries. This wide-ranging conversation also explores the ways Gen AI and LLMs will transform the application development process and touches on the role the Open Source community will play in that transformation.

Government's Cybersecurity Regulatory Framework Expands to Healthcare and Other Industries

Cyberattacks are devastating, especially when they derail real-world critical services like healthcare. An especially troubling attack field is ransomware: In 2022, 66% of U.S. hospitals were targeted in ransomware attacks, an increase of almost 50% from 2021, and 289 hospitals were affected by successful ransomware attack incidents. Healthcare organizations paid the ransom in about 61% of ransomware incidents, the highest rate of any industry.

insightsoftware Wins Dresner Technology Innovation Award for Embedded Business Intelligence

Recognized for the third year in a row, insightsoftware continues meeting demands for sophisticated data-driven insights within customer applications RALEIGH, N.C. – March 6, 2024 – insightsoftware, the most comprehensive provider of solutions for the Office of the CFO, today announced it has been named a winner for Embedded Business Intelligence (BI) in the 2023 Technology Innovation Awards by Dresner Advisory Services.

Driving Profitability through Cloud Adoption

What does it take for an architecture, engineering, or construction business to be profitable? Many look toward aggressive growth and expansion, either by geography or acquisition or both. However, growth requires significant spending on resources from new employees to acquisitions, and it takes time to see a return on your investment.

Snowflake Ventures Invests in Landing AI, Boosting Visual AI in the Data Cloud

As Large Language Models are revolutionizing natural language prompts, Large Vision Models (LVMs) represent another new, exciting frontier for AI. An estimated 90% of the world’s data is unstructured, much of it in the form of visual content such as images and videos. Insights from analyzing this visual data can open up powerful new use cases that significantly boost productivity and efficiency, but enterprises need sophisticated computer vision technologies to achieve this.

Gen AI And LLMs Will Transform The Enterprise

Snowflake's Mona Attariyan, Director of Engineering, leads this conversation with Snowflake's Sunny Bedi, CIO and CDO, and Jennifer Belissent, Principal Data Strategist, about the impact Gen AI and LLMs will have on enterprises. Topics covered range from the impact on employee productivity, the personalization of the customer experience, the opportunities for data monetization. and more.

Simplifying BI pipelines with Snowflake dynamic tables

Managing complex data pipelines is a major challenge for data-driven organizations looking to accelerate analytics initiatives. While AI-powered, self-service BI platforms like ThoughtSpot can fully operationalize insights at scale by delivering visual data exploration and discovery, it still requires robust underlying data management. Now, that’s changing. Snowflake's new dynamic tables feature redefines how BI and analytics teams approach data transformation pipelines.

A Closer Look at The Next Phase of Cloudera's Hybrid Data Lakehouse

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is primed to reshape the way just about every business operates. Cloudera research projected that more than one third (36%) of organizations in the U.S. are in the early stages of exploring the potential for AI implementation. But even with its rise, AI is still a struggle for some enterprises. AI, and any analytics for that matter, are only as good as the data upon which they are based. And that’s where the rub is.

Gen AI And LLMs Will Change Our Lives Profoundly

How will Gen AI and LLMs impact the nature of people's jobs and worker productivity? "Data Cloud Now" anchor Ryan Green kicked off the Data and AI Predictions 2024 event in January by discussing that topic with Snowflake's CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy and Mona Attariyan, Director of Engineering. The conversation also covers the potential for AI to generate misinformation and the need to establish ethical guardrails for the technology.

Geodis | Revolutionizing Global Logistics with Data

Explore how Geodis, a global logistics powerhouse, stays ahead of the curve in an ever-changing industry. Witness how they leverage real-time data and innovative solutions from Cloudera to streamline operations, enhance visibility, and exceed customer expectations, propelling their business forward in a world that never stops moving.

Metadata Management & Data Governance with Cloudera SDX

In this article, we will walk you through the process of implementing fine grained access control for the data governance framework within the Cloudera platform. This will allow a data office to implement access policies over metadata management assets like tags or classifications, business glossaries, and data catalog entities, laying the foundation for comprehensive data access control.