In late 2020, a CEO at an American bank revealed the thinking that’s becoming common in many businesses these days. “We’re a 103-year-old bank,” their CEO told me. “We’re doing everything on spreadsheets. But we are trying to become a highly profitable, digital-first bank that anticipates financial needs and empowers our clients with frictionless experiences. We need to become a data company.”

The introduction of CDP Public Cloud has dramatically reduced the time in which you can be up and running with Cloudera’s latest technologies, be it with containerised Data Warehouse, Machine Learning, Operational Database or Data Engineering experiences or the multi-purpose VM-based Data Hub style of deployment.

Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) provides an API that enables you to access CDP functionality from a script, or to integrate CDP features with an application. In practice you can use the CDP API to script repetitive tasks, manage CDP resources, or even create custom applications. You can learn more about the API in its official documentation. There are multiple ways to access the API, including through a dedicated CLI, through a Java SDK, and through a low-level tool called cdpcurl.

Reporting tools solve a key problem for businesses by enabling them to communicate data in a way that is accessible, easy-to-understand, and useful for both frontline staff and management teams. These tools take raw data and turn it into tables, charts, and graphs ready for consumption, turning complicated data into visuals that better enable users to spot patterns and trends.

Three Divisions, With Over 8,000 SKUs, Are Leveraging Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS to Get a Centralized View of Sales, Operations and e-Commerce Performance and Opportunities.

In this article, I will be focusing on the contribution that a multi-cloud strategy has towards these value drivers, and address a question that I regularly get from clients: Is there a quantifiable benefit to a multi-cloud deployment? That question is typically being asked when I explain the ability to leverage container technology that offers a consistent deployment environment across multiple clouds and form factors (public, private, or hybrid cloud).

Mastercard is one of the world’s top payment processing platforms, with more than 700 million cards in use worldwide. In the US, nearly 40% of American adults hold a Mastercard-branded card. And the company is going from strength to strength; despite a dip in valuation of more than a third when the pandemic hit, the company has doubled in value three times in the last nine years, recently reaching a market capitalization of more than $350B dollars.

In a press release delivered today, Unravel Data announced its appearance on CRN’s Big Data 100 list for 2021. Unravel’s entry appears in the Data Management and Integration category. Also featured in this category are other rising stars such as Confluent, Fivetran, Immuta, and Okera, all of whom spoke at new industry conference DataOps Unleashed, held in March.