For Keboola, 2019 was a year of growing—and growing up. We evolved a lot, on both the business and product sides. In this blog, I want to give a quick overview of the changes, as well as give you some indication of what to expect from us in the next 6 months. Many of those improvements were inspired or directly driven by our users - there is a “wishlist” button available for everyone right in the Keboola Connection UI.

Automation brings incredible value to data teams and hyper-growing companies. It removes hours of sweating over repetitive and mundane tasks, which frees up time for data engineers, analysts, and scientists to get on with more engaging and revenue-generating work. Now, imagine that you can extend the benefits of automation beyond the selected repetitive tasks… to the entire data pipeline.

Our team spent the first week of November in San Francisco sponsoring Looker’s annual JOIN conference. We met hundreds of companies who came to talk to us about automated data operations and what benefits they would bring to their organizations.

We’ve been thrilled to recently bring Tereza Nemassanyi to our team as our new CRO. Tereza brings more than just experience to the Keboola team from Microsoft - her unique perspective and constant devotion to speaking on innovation is the kind of thought leadership that excites us. We sat down with Tereza to get the scoop on her approach to innovation and how she thinks the innovation backlog can be the key to business growth.

My first car had a manual choke. It would change the ratio of air and fuel to allow the engine to start - you would pull it when starting the engine cold, wait a bit and then set it back. The car had many other peculiarities - a manual transmission (of course), no power steering, and the engine had a tendency to overheat in the summer - or, if going uphill, year-round.

It’s crazy to imagine that by 2020, every person will generate 1.7 megabytes of data each second! The days of slow communication and occasional snail mail are long over. We generate data without thinking about it - using apps, paying with credit cards, and even shopping online for groceries. It’s no secret that companies use this data to improve our customer experience and gain insights for strategic business decisions. Well, that’s what they should be doing anyway.

Raise your hand if you agree that “data driven decision making” is one of the biggest buzzwords in data? Not to say it’s not important, but it’s a phrase that has been beaten to death by every marketer and salesperson out there. And even though every company is trying to march to the drum of “data driven decision making”, we still can’t seem to wrangle it like a fish escaping our catch.

Today, 90% of enterprise analytics and business professionals say that data and analytics are key to their organization’s digital transformation initiatives. However, there are many companies that are reluctant to pull the trigger because they aren’t sure about the advantages of becoming data-driven. In this article, we’ll look at 5 statistics that show how becoming a data-driven business can help you outdo your competition.

A step-by-step guide to automate your data pipeline and get back time for high value work.

We had a great time at the Snowflake Summit last week with customers and fellow partners! Thanks for coming up to our booth and sharing your thoughts on your experiences with Snowflake. A few main topics kept coming up that we thought were worth sharing.