In the previous blog, we walked through the installation and set-up of Talend Open Studio and briefly demonstrated key features to familiarize you with the Studio interface. In this blog, we will build a simple job to load data from a local file into Snowflake, a cloud data warehouse technology. More specifically, we will build a new job that takes customer data from your local machine and maps it to a target table within Snowflake.

As I work with customers around the world and across verticals, I’m struck by a common pattern: many savvy business people and technologists grasp the value of the new application programming interfaces (APIs) they’re creating for external ecosystem use cases, such as providing partners access to data or functionality, but they often see both the APIs they already have and those they build for internal use in a different light — not as software products that let developers

Since Black Friday first became a thing, roughly 15 years ago, practically every big name in digital retail has experienced some form of outage while trying to cope with its demands. Last year alone, international retailers Lowe’s, Debenhams and Game all suffered downtime at one point or another, bringing howls of complaint and derision from customers.

Have you heard? Talend Fall ’18 is here and continues on Talend’s plan to meet the challenges of today’s data professionals around organizing, processing and sharing data at scale. Earlier Jean-Michel Franco wrote up about the Data Catalog portion of this exciting Fall 2018 launch. In this blog I’d like to focus on our new API features.

For over 30 years, the dashboard has been the delivery paradigm of choice for decision support and executive information systems. It started with Business Objects and Cognos, and today Qlik, Tableau, Power BI and other vendors are still using dashboards as the medium of data delivery. Rather than thinking about whether there’s a better way to deliver insights, dashboard dinosaurs just keep using the same paradigm.

In the Czech Republic, Sklizeno needs no introduction to healthy living enthusiasts and fans of local, organic products. The chain of grocery stores stocks mostly Czech but also imported food, with clearly marked origins and guaranteed quality. The first store opened in Brno in 2011; today, Sklizeno Foods, together with the Náš Grunt chain, which the company acquired, operates 46 grocery stores in total.

Until last year, it was called Cetelem, a provider of consumer credit and credit cards. In the autumn of 2017, BNP Paribas’ subsidiary was transformed into a new bank. Hello bank! caters for retail clients and has come up with several new products, so far not made public, for them this year. We visited the company for comments and news from the bank’s data back-office.

Czech fashion brand Pietro Filipi has been producing clothes since 1993; since autumn 2017, a new owner has been at the helm. Michal Mička’s C2H investment firm bought 80% of Pietro Filipi, with the aim of reviving the brand’s prosperity and supporting its expansion both abroad and into e-commerce.

This month is packed with exciting news at Qlik, with the latest being the availability of Qlik Sense November 2018. This release introduces a game changing AI capability – cognitive machine learning. Qlik is leading the market with precedent-based learning capabilities, allowing our Cognitive Engine to get “smarter” over time based on user behavior and feedback, Qlik Sense artifacts, business rule definitions, and other sources.

When I hear the phrase “Data Warehouse Optimization”, shivers go down my spine. It sounds like such a complicated undertaking. After all, data warehouses are big, cumbersome and complex systems that can store terabytes and even petabytes of data that people depend on to make important decisions on the way their business is run. The thought of any type of tinkering with such an integral part of a modern business would make even the most seasoned CIO’s break out into cold sweats.