Getting started with Apache Polaris Catalog in Fivetran's Managed Data Lake Service
Why the catalog matters, how to configure it with popular query engines, and the essential best practices every data engineer should follow.
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2026 Resolutions To Improve Financial Reporting
For many finance leaders, 2025 was a year of upheaval, chaos, and uncertainty. Between supply chain disruptions, tariffs, interest rates, and other challenges, plenty of leaders spent their time just keeping the team afloat. As 2026 begins, it’s time to shift to a better perspective. With the right tools and attitude, finance professionals can set and meet goals that are more than just keeping your head above water.
Build data analytics agents faster with BigQuery's fully managed, remote MCP server
The new fully managed remote BigQuery MCP server makes it easier to build intelligent data AI agents.
The Embedded BI Advantage: Why On-Premises Analytics Beats Third-Party BI for Data Security
Corporate concerns about entrusting sensitive data to third-party platforms keep many CTOs awake at night. Every time data leaves your infrastructure for a bolted-on BI tool, you're gambling with control. The stakes? Regulatory compliance, competitive advantage, and customer trust. Deploying a business analytics solution while keeping data safe and compliant often involves choosing between BI solutions that are either “bolted-on” or “embedded”.
Security considerations when choosing an embedded analytics provider
October 2025, Paris. Thieves dressed as construction workers break into the Louvre and steal eight pieces of the French Crown Jewels valued at approximately €88 million. The robbery took place in broad daylight, and lasted less than eight minutes. As of the time of writing, only one of the jewels was recovered, a crown belonging to Napoleon III's wife Eugénie, which the thieves dropped in the street as they fled.
Open Lakehouse Meetup (ft. Apache Iceberg): Building Scalable Data Platforms
Discover the future of the Data Lakehouse with this deep dive into Apache Iceberg V3 and V4 from the Bengaluru community meetup. Learn how PyIceberg and DuckDB are revolutionizing Python-native data processing by eliminating the need for Spark clusters for 99% of common query sizes. Explore high-performance ingestion benchmarks from Oleg and the Google Dataproc Lightning Engine, achieving over 500k rows/sec through Apache Arrow and C++ vectorization. This session is a masterclass for data engineers on metadata compaction, Rest Catalogs, and building vendor-agnostic data platforms.
Cloudera, Dell and NVIDIA bring AI On-Prem
Leon Taiman, Global Practice Lead at Dell Technologies, discusses the strategic partnership between Dell, Cloudera, and NVIDIA to accelerate the adoption of Private AI on-premises for customers.
Ep 55 | A Crystal Ball into 2026 with John Santaferraro: AI Literacy, Agent Chaos, and Unification
The AI Forecast welcomes back John Santaferraro, host of The Digital Analyst Podcast and CEO of Ferraro Consulting, for a candid look at what’s really coming next for AI in 2026.
Top 22 Real Estate KPIs and Metrics for 2026 Reporting
A real estate Key Performance Indicator (KPI) or metric is a quantifiable measure used to assess the performance of a business in the real estate industry. These performance metrics can be used to analyze several different business segments from individual realtor performance to investment property potential. In turn, this information can be used to identify weaknesses in your business or help make better business decisions.
BigQuery Migration Service: SQL and data transfer
Following your migration assessment, it is time to execute the transfer of your data and SQL queries into Google Cloud. This video dives into the specific tools and services that simplify migrating workloads from Snowflake, Teradata, Cloudera, and Databricks into BigQuery, Dataproc, and Google Cloud Storage.