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Real-Time AI Agents Powered by Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Google Cloud

Aug 18, 2025 By Confluent In Confluent
Discover how developers and data teams can build agentic AI applications with the combined power of Google Cloud AI services and Confluent Cloud’s real-time data streaming platform. This video showcases the joint value of integrating Apache Kafka, Confluent Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, and Apache Flink to enable seamless, real-time communication between AI agents. What you’ll learn: With Confluent and Google Cloud, you can go beyond AI experiments to build scalable, enterprise-ready multi-agent systems powered by real-time data.
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InsightSoftware

ERP Data Struggles: How To Get Real-Time Reporting in Excel

Aug 18, 2025 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
You can never have too much data, right? But sometimes it feels like that’s the problem when you’re trying to get your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to play nice with Excel and quickly give you the reports you need. It’s a common challenge for finance teams, and you can fix it. Creating a bridge to make all that ERP data easily accessible in Excel is the key to getting the business intelligence (BI) reports you need quickly.
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hitachi vantara

Lakehouse Logic: Why Object Storage is the New Analytics Engine

Aug 18, 2025 By Jens Doerpmund and Mark Geel In Hitachi Vantara
Data analytics boils down to a simple objective. To provide people – and increasingly AI agents – with the right information, in the right place, at the right time. That's it. It's easy to state. But historically difficult to achieve. The good news is the landscape is changing.
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integrate

A Starter Guide to Cloud ETL Tools

Aug 15, 2025 By Abe Dearmer In Integrate
In today's world of Internet Technology and the need for instant access to a wide range of information, companies are constantly receiving unprecedented amounts of data from various sources and in different formats. Sorting through this mass of data to find patterns and actionable insights is nearly impossible. This is where the process of Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) and, more specifically, cloud-based ETL platforms designed for low-code data integration, becomes invaluable.
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confluent

How Confluent Is Enhancing and Easing Migration to Fully Managed Connectors

Aug 15, 2025 By Yashwanth Dasari In Confluent
Taking advantage of Confluent’s pre-built connectors means you’re able to build integration pipelines without having to write, test, and maintain integration code. And with our fully managed connectors on Confluent Cloud, you can connect to any source or sink system with zero ops or infrastructure management and with cost-efficiency. This year, we've been hard at work making the benefits of fully managed connectors a reality for more of our customers.
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qlik

From Digital Swamp to Strategic Asset: Taming QVD Chaos with a Data Product Mindset

Aug 15, 2025 By Don Pinto In Qlik
Data is supposed to be the lifeblood of innovation in today’s enterprises. We’re told to be data-driven, yet many organizations find themselves submerged in a digital swamp — murky, unstructured, and increasingly hard to navigate. Without a unified data management platform, data scale can quickly spiral into chaos — not because of technology limitations, but due to how data is handled, shared, and reused across teams.
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keboola

Tariff Pain from a Data Point of View

Aug 14, 2025 By Keboola In Keboola
If you’re in procurement, finance, or operations at a mid-sized ecommerce or retail company, tariffs aren’t just a political talking point - they’re a silent force eating into your profitability. And the real problem isn’t always the tariffs themselves. It’s the lag between policy changes and when your data catches up. If any of it sounds familiar, we’d love to hear your point of view in the short survey below.
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Marketing is hard. It's ok to take a break. #marketinglife

Aug 14, 2025 By Databox: Modern BI Software In Databox
Kyle Lacy, CMO at ​@DoceboLMS ⁩, gets real: Marketing isn’t just ads and campaigns. It’s constant context switching, decision fatigue, and pressure from all sides. And that’s why burnout is real. Raise your hand. Take a break. We’re in this together. Databox is Modern BI for teams that need answers now. It offers the best of BI, without the complicated setup, steep price, or long learning curve.
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