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Designed to be fast, scalable, flexible, and user-friendly, modern applications are at the center of the innovation and automation that is transforming companies, industries, and society today. At the same time, modern applications, increasingly built with microservices, also come with requirements that traditional data management approaches fall far short of effectively meeting.

As organizations seek to become more competitive, they are often looking to enrich their data sets for analytics to gain deeper insights. The data used for enrichment may include text data, machine data, image data, geospatial data, and real-time data. This data may be high volume, highly diverse, and disparate in nature. As part of this effort, organizations are moving to cloud data platforms to store and manage this modern data.

Customer Managed Keys allows customers to protect their sensitive data in Qlik Cloud, by using their own encryption keys provided by AWS Key Management Services - in the first phase of this release - giving them complete control over data encryption in their Qlik Cloud tenant.

Lightfold, a young analytics consultancy based in Brisbane, Australia, came into being in 2019, just before COVID hit, with the goal of helping companies gain mastery over their data by helping them build modern data stacks centered around Snowflake. In this episode of “Data Cloud Now,” Ryan Green, chats with three members of the Lightfold leadership team–CEO John Cosgrove, Data Evangelist Graeme Lewis, and Director, Design and Product, Kylie Willett–about their company’s origin story and about the way in which Snowflake’s technology has fundamentally changed the way organizations think about data.

Data is a double-edged sword. It has tremendous potential, but if mismanaged or misused, can wreak havoc on the operations, costs, revenue, and reputation of an organization. In highly regulated industries, data can be an even bigger liability. Learn how Julia Fryk, Data Architect and Engineer at Waterstone Mortgage, championed superior data management, taking the company from data chaos to data excellence. The transformation from data that could not be trusted to high-quality assets that data consumers have confidence in has made a remarkable difference and extracted more value from data.

The retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry is experiencing a global shift in how consumers, retailers, and brands interact. Long-term trends such as digitization and e-commerce, higher customer expectations, and supply chain transformation are accelerating. Businesses with a strong data foundation are rapidly adapting, and launching new digital capabilities and services.