Analytics

Friend or Foe?

In today’s world of readily available apps, whether on your phone or a cloud service, consumers do not expect a lot of training before starting to use them. Apps are designed to be intuitive and lead you through them in the way that you would expect them to work – as it relates to the purpose of the app. Same is true with analytical applications. The best ones are intuitive – they look familiar and are intuitive to navigate.

Build an Enterprise Level Password Vault with Talend and CyberArk

In this article, we are going to show how easy it is for Talend to integrate with enterprise password vaults like Cyberark. By doing this no-developer has direct access to sensitive passwords, Talend need not know password during compile(design) time, and password management (change/update password) is done outside of Talend. This saves administrators time as well as improves the security of the overall environment.

BigQuery in June: a new data type, new data import formats, and finer cost controls

This is the first installment in a monthly review of recently-released BigQuery features. While our rather active release notes do contain concise but actionable information, we’ve heard from some of our users that they’d love a little more information on these updates and what they mean in a bigger picture. This month, we present a number of practical new features, primarily focused on data types and data file formats.