June 11, 2019

In search of $DATA

It’s been an incredible week for consolidation in the pursuit of analytical excellence. Google acquired Looker for roughly $2.6B, and today Salesforce acquired Tableau for nearly $16B. Today’s move is the combination of two juggernauts in their respective markets. Salesforce…

Posted by: Chris Lynch

May 15, 2019

Data Virtualization: The Champion Of The Hybrid Cloud

Chances are if an enterprise company has customers, it is operating in a hybrid cloud environment. The small fraction that are not are predicted to adopt this structure by the end of next year. According to Dave Bartoletti, VP and…

Posted by: John Gaffney

May 6, 2019

Seamless Adoption of Snowflake in the Cloud: Rakuten with AtScale

Every new enterprise solution introduces a multitude of problems. For the enterprise, the solution that has introduced the most complexity to the business has been cloud transformation. According to IDG, 73% of organizations have at least one application, or a…

Posted by: Cort Johnson

April 29, 2019

CDO Version.2019: Seven Keys To Defining The Job

The Chief Data Officer is on the rise. A remarkable number of companies have made this high-profile addition to the C-suite over the past year, confirming the urgency of data-driven decision making at the highest levels of the enterprise. However,…

Posted by: John Gaffney

April 19, 2019

Analyzing Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Analytics

On February 11th, 2019, Gartner released its latest magic quadrant for analytics and business intelligence platforms. As we’ve done since 2016, we will highlight who Gartner considers the market leaders to be, as well as any notable changes and constants…

Posted by: Dan Schulwolf

March 11, 2019

Conceiving Valuable Data Driven Insights

How valuable is an insight if you don’t know what’s driving it? The investment in big data made in recent years by companies has been significant. Many are now looking to capitalize on the insights to be discovered in their…

Posted by: James Burr

March 8, 2019

IMPROVE BI PERFORMANCE THROUGH EFFICIENT TIME-SPECIFIC CALCULATIONS

The more things change, the more they stay the same. There is tremendous push towards new platforms capable of dealing with massive amounts of data. Data is flowing at a scale once considered impossible, and the sources of data are…

Posted by: Arnold Yeung

March 7, 2019

Cloud Cost Optimization: How to Reduce Cloud Data Warehouse Costs

I’ve never seen a faster adoption of a new technology platform than I have with the introduction of a cloud Data Warehouse. Companies of all sizes have embraced the power and ease of use of BigQuery, RedShift, Azure SQL Data Warehouse,…

Posted by: Matt Baird