Support for conversational data agents with Gemini and enhancements to BigQuery provide a unified data platform for connecting all your data to AI.

Built on BigQuery, Dataplex provides data governance with automated data discovery, curation and management at scale.

In today’s fast-paced digital environment, delivering value quickly is critical to staying competitive and gaining buy-in from both stakeholders and customers. One of the key enablers of this rapid value delivery is embedded analytics, a business solution that allows you to integrate interactive data visualizations and business intelligence (BI) features directly into your existing applications.

After a short break, we’re back with Part 2 of this series on Spring Framework, Confluent Cloud, and the Kotlin language. Many organizations that write applications and microservices for the JVM have chosen Spring Framework, leveraging the many libraries available for features such as REST services, persisting data to a variety of datastores, and integration with messaging. These organizations have existing investments in building, testing, deploying, and monitoring applications using Spring.

Replicating databases in regulated environments starts with syncing data sources while ensuring the data never leaves the secure perimeter of the cloud or on-premises network.

BigQuery’s pipe syntax introduces an intuitive, top-down syntax for understanding data transformations, and is used in Cloud Logging Log Analytics.

A partnership between Google Cloud and Gretel lets data engineers generate synthetic data within BigQuery.

Oracle-driven finance teams today face increasingly complex challenges. In recent years, the finance function has had to adapt to become more flexible as they navigate market upheaval, global inflation, and rapid changes to technology. This year, an Oracle survey of CFOs reveals CFO’s top challenges include navigating the need to cut costs, retaining talent within the finance function, and focusing on more accurate forecasting.

The evolving market landscape is driving an urgent need for a unified EPM solution, as finance teams face increasing pressures from several fronts. Rapid technological advancements, heightened competition, and the growing complexity of global markets have made financial agility and real-time decision-making critical to maintaining a competitive edge.

As cloud environments evolve, so must the security measures that protect them. With Confluent’s latest enhancement—AWS IAM role integration for managed connectors—you can now adopt temporary security credentials, reducing both the risk of long-term credential exposure and the operational burden of key management. This feature tightens security and simplifies access management for your data flows between AWS and Confluent Cloud.