Agentic Analytics Playbook: Insights from ThoughtSpot's AI Event
What an incredible day at the Agentic Analytics Playbook EMEA event! It might have been baking hot outside, but inside the Nobu Hotel, the energy was absolutely electric.
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Tableflow: Turn Kafka Topics into Iceberg Tables
TL;DR: Tableflow is a Confluent Cloud feature that materializes Apache Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake tables, eliminating custom data pipelines by automatically handling schematization, type conversions, schema evolution, CDC stream materialization, catalog publishing, and table maintenance.
Redpanda vs Kafka vs Confluent: An Honest Comparison
Data streaming has moved from a niche pattern used by a handful of internet-scale companies to the default backbone for event-driven architectures, real-time analytics, and now AI pipelines. What started as log aggregation at LinkedIn has become the plumbing for fraud detection, IoT telemetry, microservices communication, and retrieval-augmented generation. Three names dominate that conversation today.
Proving ROI on On-Premises BI: Quantify Data Security Value for CFOs and CIOs
Most teams can explain why sensitive BI data should stay on-premises. Far fewer can explain what that decision is worth in dollars. That gap matters. IT can see the control benefits. Finance wants numbers. Executives want a simple answer: what risk drops, what costs change, and what value shows up over 3 to 5 years? This is where a business case beats a technical pitch. On-premises BI can protect sensitive data, support compliance, and give teams direct control over hosting.
Salesforce MCP: Is CRM Data Enough for Your AI Agent?
Connecting Salesforce to Claude via MCP is the advancement the SERP says it is. You authenticate once, your AI agent queries live CRM data, and you stop copying deal records into chat windows. For a Revenue Operations Manager who spent Q1 begging an admin to export pipeline snapshots, that matters.
Business Users Trust BI Tools More. They Reach for ChatGPT Anyway.
86% pick generative AI before any BI tool for analytical work. Trust ranks fourth in their reasons. Speed and convenience rank first.
Thousands of Migrations, Zero Data Loss: OCBC's Confluent Playbook | Life Is But A Stream
Migrating an entire bank's infrastructure without losing a single transaction sounds impossible. Yet, OCBC successfully modernized their event-driven architecture across Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong with zero data loss. In this episode, George Goh (Executive Director at OCBC) joins Joseph Morais and Sami Amed (Staff Solutions Engineer at Confluent) to pull back the curtain on a massive data streaming migration, how the team executed a flawless migration of thousands of producers and consumers in a single weekend.
Beyond centralization: Why APAC retail and CPG teams need activation
Centralizing data builds the foundation, but activating trusted data across operational systems will drive the next wave of growth in APAC.
The Single Metric That Decides If Your SaaS Survives
The SaaS purge is here, and it’s survival of the fittest. On the latest, Joshua McKenzie (@elmosoftware) drops a harsh reality check: If your software isn’t the ultimate "system of record," your customers are already plotting to build over you. If you're just a pretty interface, you're replaceable.
What are the 4 Ways to Connect Excel to Snowflake
There are four ways to connect Excel to Snowflake in 2026: (1) Power Query's native Snowflake connector (the easiest, no ODBC required), (2) the Snowflake ODBC driver (most flexible for SQL control), (3) the Snowflake Excel Add-In (user-friendly, limited to newer Excel versions), and (4) a third-party ETL platform like Integrate.io (best for automation and scheduled pipelines). For most users, Power Query is the recommended starting point.