Mall Group, the leading e-commerce group in Central Europe, recently employed Keboola to streamline operations and accelerate growth. In a matter of months, Keboola’s platform enabled Mall Group’s individual teams to become much more autonomous as well as accelerate feature development, testing, and deployment.
Platterz helps cultivate happy workplaces by creating delicious food experiences to offices across the country. To do this, the business intelligence team at Platterz is on a never-ending mission to derive important insights from the multitude of data at their fingertips. Platterz had the data and the world’s best visualization tool - Looker - but they needed a way to organize the data seamlessly in a way that was optimized for their teams.
Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard that “data-driven companies make more money”. McKinsey started beating that drum half a decade ago. Financial Times wrote extensively about the topic. Google even commissioned a multi-year study from Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which showed that “best-in-class digital marketers benefit from 1.4 times greater cost benefits and up to 2.5 times revenue impact” after implementing analytics to drive their business growth.
Last September, the revised Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) went into full effect, shifting open banking from futurism to a regulatory requirement for retail banks. But the EU is not alone in wanting to open up consumers’ financial data via APIs (application programming interfaces) to trusted Third Party Providers (TPPs). Neobanks and fintechs have been marrying technology and customer data as a market-grabbing strategy, thus increasing their competitive edge.
Back in April last year, we made the business decision to make Keboola Connection available on Azure too (no, we're not quitting AWS). The story behind the decision is quite simple — our customers want it.
For Keboola, 2019 was a year of growing—and growing up. We evolved a lot, on both the business and product sides. In this blog, I want to give a quick overview of the changes, as well as give you some indication of what to expect from us in the next 6 months. Many of those improvements were inspired or directly driven by our users - there is a “wishlist” button available for everyone right in the Keboola Connection UI.
Automation brings incredible value to data teams and hyper-growing companies. It removes hours of sweating over repetitive and mundane tasks, which frees up time for data engineers, analysts, and scientists to get on with more engaging and revenue-generating work. Now, imagine that you can extend the benefits of automation beyond the selected repetitive tasks… to the entire data pipeline.
Our team spent the first week of November in San Francisco sponsoring Looker’s annual JOIN conference. We met hundreds of companies who came to talk to us about automated data operations and what benefits they would bring to their organizations.
We’ve been thrilled to recently bring Tereza Nemassanyi to our team as our new CRO. Tereza brings more than just experience to the Keboola team from Microsoft - her unique perspective and constant devotion to speaking on innovation is the kind of thought leadership that excites us. We sat down with Tereza to get the scoop on her approach to innovation and how she thinks the innovation backlog can be the key to business growth.
My first car had a manual choke. It would change the ratio of air and fuel to allow the engine to start - you would pull it when starting the engine cold, wait a bit and then set it back. The car had many other peculiarities - a manual transmission (of course), no power steering, and the engine had a tendency to overheat in the summer - or, if going uphill, year-round.
