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Automating BigQuery exports to an email

Data accessibility and analysis is a crucial part of getting value from your data. While there are many methods to view data when it comes to BigQuery, one common way is to export query results as an email on a scheduled basis. This lets end users get an email with a link to the most recent query results, and is a good solution for anyone looking for daily statistics on business processes, monthly summaries of website metrics, or weekly business reviews.

Apache YuniKorn (Incubating) 0.8 release: What's new and upcoming?

Apache YuniKorn (Incubating) is a standalone resource scheduler that aims to bring advanced scheduling capabilities for Big Data workloads onto containerized platforms. Please read YuniKorn: a universal resources scheduler to learn about the rationale and architecture. Since the time of our last post, we are delighted to update that YuniKorn was accepted by the Apache incubator in Jan 2020!

How Customer Success helped take a SaaS company from Niche to Visionary in just 3 years

It was three years ago, just after the Gartner Magic Quadrant (MQ) came out, that everything in customer success changed at Yellowfin. We had made it into the MQ again but we weren’t positioned where we believed we should be. We were a product-driven company that had been first to market for many of the functionalities that have since become expected in what BI vendors offer today.

Introducing MLOps And SDX for Models in Cloudera Machine Learning

It seems everyone is talking about machine learning (ML) these days — and ML’s use in products and services we consume everyday continues to be increasingly ubiquitous. But for many enterprise organizations, the promise of embedding ML models across the business and scaling use cases remains elusive. So what about ML makes it difficult for enterprises to adopt at scale?

Building an application to predict customer churn

Too often, companies are finding out after the fact that customers have stopped using their product or service, without enough notice to have done anything about it. The term customer churn is used to describe the loss of existing customers. These are people or organizations that were using a company’s products and/or services and have decided not to use them anymore, in favor of a competitor. Tracking customer churn is a key business metric for most companies.

How design flexibility gives you a better dashboard experience

Our Head of Product Design and Creative Director, Tony Prysten, has worked in brand, design and advertising roles over the course of his career. Bringing his wealth of experience to Yellowfin, he now shapes the creative and UX experience of our product. Here he shares his thoughts on how design flexibility improves the dashboard experience.

Not all AI Is Created Equal: Why Businesses Need Augmented Intelligence in 2020

We are now living in a truly hyper-connected environment where vast amounts of data are being transferred, gathered, and consumed daily. There are 3.9 billion internet users globally – a number that is still growing. Just think about the last time you were waiting for a Zoom conference call to start.

Bloor Research identifies what makes a Modern Data Warehouse champion

When speaking with customers, I often hear that they are committed to digital transformation and being a data-driven enterprise. Those may just seem like abstract, lofty words to aspire to but the reality is much more practical. We have major banks needing to ensure that they have a complete view of their customers, and can reduce churn through personalized service and offerings. Telecommunications giants that absolutely need to maintain network health so there are no dropped calls or missed messages.