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Here’s one of the most memorable quotes I have heard from a customer here in Asia: “Every time they tell me it’s ‘not in the universe’, I feel like mine is collapsing.”

Digital technology promises transformative results. Yet, it’s not uncommon to encounter potholes and speed bumps along the way. One area that frequently trips up businesses is putting data into action. It can be extraordinarily difficult to take advantage of the right data at exactly the right time — in real time — to drive decision-making. For SAP customers wanting to maximize the value of their data, Google Cloud offers a number of capabilities.

The value of healthy data is obvious. But how do you build that practice in your own business? The difference between people who live a healthy lifestyle and those who don’t isn’t whether they know how to be healthier — it’s whether or not they prioritize diet, sleep, and exercise in their daily life. The same is true for your data: if you don’t have the infrastructure that supports your customer 360 initiatives , those initiatives become moot.

While it is a little dated, one amusing example that has been the source of countless internet memes is the famous, “is this a chihuahua or a muffin?” classification problem. Figure 01: Is this a chihuahua or a muffin? In this example, the Machine Learning (ML) model struggles to differentiate between a chihuahua and a muffin.

During a Teradata migration to BigQuery, one complex and time consuming process is migrating Teradata users and their permissions to the respective ones in GCP. This mapping process requires admin and security teams to manually analyze, compare, and match hundreds to thousands of Teradata user permissions to BigQuery IAM permissions. We already described this manual process for some common data access patterns in our earlier blog post.

It’s official — Self-Service Data APIs are available as a new feature of Data Inventory! Highly skilled and less-technical users can now make their datasets available to applications and partners via APIs in just a few clicks. Self-Service Data APIs empower every permissioned employee to leverage data across the business to generate valuable insights or even extend data availability beyond the organization to trusted partners.

Piano is a leading provider of software and services that help organizations better understand their audiences across digital channels. With these insights in hand, Piano customers can intelligently serve audiences with personalized experiences that keep them engaged and drive revenue, all through a single unified platform.

Note: This is part 2 of the Make the Leap New Year’s Resolution series. For part 1 please go here. When we introduced Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE) in the Public Cloud in 2020 it was a culmination of many years of working alongside companies as they deployed Apache Spark based ETL workloads at scale.