OKRs have taken corporate planning by storm — and for good reason. As a system for organization-wide goal-setting, OKRs make executive KPIs tangible and actionable, not just for the leaders, but for everyone in the company. They have become increasingly common in all types of businesses because they are simple and effective. For the company’s data champion, they also offer an unparalleled opportunity to get everyone speaking a common language of metrics.
As businesses scale to meet the demands of their customers, so do their need for efficient products to collect, manage and analyze data to meet their business goals. Whether you are building a multi-player game or a global e-commerce platform, it's critical to ensure that data can be stored and queried at scale with strong consistency and then processed for analysis to deliver real-time insights.
Geographical data is one of the critical datasets for data-driven organizations to make informed business decisions. As the data is growing more than ever before, it’s becoming more challenging to manage and analyze mammoth datasets using traditional databases, this is true for geographical data as well as it requires significant computational power to process. Esri has been one of the leading companies in Geospatial software development since 1969.
Experts from Microsoft, WANdisco, and Unravel Data recently outlined a step-by-step playbook—utilizing a data-driven approach—for migrating and managing data applications in the cloud.
Snowflake is proud to announce the open source release of SansShell, a non-interactive local host management agent. Its purpose is to enable strong authentication, authorization, and auditing of the management of servers of any type. The source code is available on GitHub.
Globe Telecom, one of the largest providers of digital services in the Philippines, was operating in a saturated market with limited opportunity to expand. Any strategy for growth depended on nurturing customer relationships and fostering lifelong value with each customer. For Globe Telecom, getting customer data was never the problem — telecom companies produce terabytes of data every day.
