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Have you ever wished you had a crystal ball? We tracked down a CDO who actually uses one. See, Cosmo, CDO is not a Chief Data Officer — he’s a Chief Destiny Officer. We’re all about data at Talend, but sometimes it’s good to see things from another perspective. We sat down with Cosmo to ask him about his job, his background, and his methods.

Intercom bills itself as a “conversational relationship platform,” helping businesses connect with their audiences primarily through live chat, as well as email and chatbots. The Intercom platform offers functionality including engagement and onboarding for new customers, support for existing customers, and marketing for potential customers on the fence.

REST API provides a solution for communicating easily with various apps, platforms, and web services. This tool allows the user to communicate and execute actions universally with various languages and more. Companies implementing REST API stand to gain a better experience and create more flexibility when using ERPs, CRMs, and more like Salesforce. When users connect to Salesforce with a REST API, they get more flexibility and options that make the process more actionable and streamlined.

Growth. It’s the mountain every startup founder must learn to climb in order to run a successful business. And as with any great mountain, the journey to the top never feels more daunting than at the base. How your startup earns its first 10 customers will set the tone for the rest of the trek and determine how fast your team reaches the summit — if at all.

Beaumotica combines smart lighting, design, and top brands to create the perfect mood and atmosphere for any room. And with help from Talend, the company can now combine data, analytics, and automation to optimize business decisions and accelerate growth. Last year alone the company tripled its business and expanded into new territories across Europe. Based in The Netherlands, Beaumotica has been growing steadily since 2007.

Change data capture is one of the fundamental underpinnings of modern data management. Without knowing when their enterprise data has changed or refreshed with new information, businesses wouldn’t be able to access up-to-the-minute insights that help them stay competitive in a constantly shifting landscape. In change data capture (CDC), users are promptly notified (either in real-time or near real-time) when changes have been made to a source table or source database.

Which small business financial reports should you track for your organization? We asked 46 SMBs for their opinion.

“If we didn’t have Stitch, we would have to recruit and hire data engineers, buy space for hundreds of millions of rows that we’re sinking into the database, and on and on. For us, Stitch is essential.” –Tomasz Eitner, BI and Data Analyst, Simba Sleep Simba Sleep has always been a data-driven company. Before the firm was even formally launched, the founders purchased research profiles from more than 10 million sleepers—including 180 million body profile data points.

For organizations to succeed today, they have to make data-driven decisions and get the most value out of the information. “To monetize data, companies must first transform it so that it can be reused and recombined to enable new value creation.” Most organizations have a ton of information that is spread across multiple departments. Making sense of the information is no easy task. Inaccurate analytics or delayed insights can put the business in a vulnerable position.