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What is Augmented Analytics? - Definition & Top Benefits in 2025

Today, identifying, managing and understanding data is made faster and easier through the use of automation, algorithms and natural language capabilities that enhance – not replace – the key steps along the analytics life cycle. Most importantly, it isn’t as inaccessible as you may think.

What's the Hype Around Multi-Agent Systems in AI?

AI is evolving fast. But if we want it to truly solve real-world problems, we need to stop thinking of it as a single brain and start building it like a team. That’s where Multi-Agent Systems come in. Instead of relying on one large model to do everything, we’re now designing AI agents with specialized roles that collaborate, delegate, and execute tasks together, just like high-performing human teams.

Data Cleaning Best Practices: The Foundation for Reliable Reporting Across Teams

Here’s the truth: without proper data cleaning, your dashboards, forecasts, and strategy are built on shaky ground. In fact, bad data is already costing U.S. businesses more than $3.1 trillion a year, according to one IBM study. That’s not just a number – it’s lost deals, missed targets, and wasted hours chasing down the wrong metrics.

Measuring the Value of Data Products

Today’s savviest business organizations rightfully recognize data as an essential asset. However, measuring data value across the entire data estate is challenging due to its inherent complexity. By breaking data down into smaller units that are business-outcome centric — data products — organizations can more accurately and reliably assess their value.

New With Confluent Platform 8.0: Stream Securely, Monitor Easily, and Scale Endlessly

At Confluent, we’re committed to building the world's leading data streaming platform, which gives you the ability to stream, connect, process, and govern all of your data and make it available wherever it’s needed—however it’s needed—in real time. Today, we're excited to announce the release of Confluent Platform 8.0! This release builds on Apache Kafka 4.0, reinforcing our core capabilities as a data streaming platform.

Cursor: Using AI to build a custom connector with Fivetran's Connector SDK

This tutorial demonstrates how to build a Fivetran Connector SDK custom connector using AI assistance with Cursor, an AI code editor. The demo showcases the end-to-end process of creating, testing, and deploying a connector for the FDA Food Enforcement API.

GitHub Copilot: Using AI to build a custom connector with Fivetran's Connector SDK

This tutorial demonstrates how to build a Fivetran Connector SDK custom connector using VS Code and GitHub Copilot. The demo showcases the end-to-end process of creating, testing, and deploying a connector that ingests tobacco problem reports from the openFDA API.