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The Dashboard Is Dead, Long Live the Dashboard

There is a lot of talk these days about the dashboard being a thing of the past. After all, simply displaying KPIs and visualizations in a dashboard is something everyone can do, right? If monitoring KPIs is all you need to do, then we would agree: The dashboard is largely dead. We can deliver those singular data points to you anywhere, monitoring what you’re interested in, alerting you to changes and triggering action.

Data governance beyond SDX: Adding third party assets to Apache Atlas

Governance and the sustainable handling of data is a critical success factor in virtually all organizations. While Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) already supports the entire data lifecycle from ‘Edge to AI’, we at Cloudera are fully aware that enterprises have more systems outside of CDP. It is crucial to avoid that CDP becomes the next silo in your IT landscape.

Now Generally Available, Snowflake's Search Optimization Service Accelerates Queries Dramatically

Snowflake customers want to discover insights from their data faster than ever, which is challenging because data volumes are growing at a breakneck pace. Effective searches are critical to customer satisfaction. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of search optimization, which significantly improves the performance of selective queries on large tables.

Going Beyond Observability for Spark Applications & Databricks Environments

Join Chris Santiago, Solutions Engineer Director at Unravel Data, as he takes you through Unravel’s approach to getting better and finer grain visibility with Spark applications and how to tune and optimize them for resource efficiency. An overview of out of the box tools like Ganglia and their overall lack of visibility on Databricks jobs How Unravel helps you gain finer grain visibility, observability, monitoring into Spark data pipelines How Unravel can recommend better configurations and tuning of Spark applications.

Why operational reporting is still essential in modern BI solutions

Yellowfin frequently speaks with prospects that list operational reporting as a critical requirement when buying an analytics solution. Despite the usefulness of the latest features, standard reporting capabilities is still an essential part of their BI checklist. But why?

Inventory management with BigQuery and Cloud Run

Many people think of Cloud Run just as a way of hosting websites. Cloud Run is great at that, but there's so much more you can do with it. Here we'll explore how you can use Cloud Run and BigQuery together to create an inventory management system. I'm using a subset of the Iowa Liquor Control Board data set to create a smaller inventory file for my fictional store. In my inventory management scenario we get a csv file dropped into Cloud Storage to bulk load new inventory.

Major Fortune 100 Brands Choose the Unravel Data Platform

It’s hard to believe that Unravel Data was founded eight years ago — though the first few years were dedicated to defining and building our initial product. Since this time, the company has raised several rounds of funding, released several versions of our flagship DataOps Platform, and is being used by some of the world’s leading brands to improve the efficiency and reliability of their data pipelines.