Fast and clean. These two words define the ideal financial close process. This standard is held up as a measure of a finance or accounting department’s effectiveness. Companies are expected to get the financial close process done within a standard business week. This demonstrates competence, resource efficiency, and good management. An efficient financial consolidation and close process does two vital things.

Today, data drives everything from strategic business decisions to workout plans. As a result, analytics, visualization, and dashboards are becoming necessary in business software, online websites, and consumer apps. With people needing quick access to data for better insights and decisions, embedded analytics has become inevitable in our work.

Much of the hype around big data and analytics focuses on business value and bottom-line impacts. Those are enormously important in the private and public sectors alike. But for government agencies, there is a greater mission: improving people’s lives. Data makes the most ambitious and even idealistic goals—like making the world a better place—possible.

Since we launched Talend Data Fabric in 2015, we’ve believed strongly that merely focusing on the mechanics of data — capturing, moving, and storing data — is not enough to become data-driven. Everyone in the organization must be able to easily find, trust, and use data. That’s what data health is all about, and that’s what Talend makes possible. Forrester looked at the 15 software providers that matter the most when it comes to Enterprise Data Fabric.

Across the globe, cloud concentration risk is coming under greater scrutiny. The UK HM Treasury department recently issued a policy paper “Critical Third Parties to the Finance Sector.” The paper is a proposal to enable oversight of third parties providing critical services to the UK financial system.

In order to better serve their customers and users, digital applications and platforms continue to store and use sensitive data such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), genetic and biometric information, and credit card information. Many organizations that provide data for analytics use cases face evolving regulatory and privacy mandates, ongoing risks from data breaches and data leakage, and a growing need to control data access.

Indonesia’s largest hyperlocal company, Gojek has evolved from a motorcycle ride-hailing service into an on-demand mobile platform, providing a range of services that include transportation, logistics, food delivery, and payments. A total of 2 million driver-partners collectively cover an average distance of 16.5 million kilometers each day, making Gojek Indonesia’s de-facto transportation partner.

Another year, another wave of positive user-led ratings and responses for Yellowfin. It's been a tough few years due to the global pandemic, with much uncertainty across many organizations and industries. But this period has also seen businesses seize more opportunities, and adopt solutions that help them respond faster to customer demands - some with better business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions, as one example.

In the second blog of the Universal Data Distribution blog series, we explored how Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC) can help you implement use cases like data lakehouse and data warehouse ingest, cybersecurity, and log optimization, as well as IoT and streaming data collection. A key requirement for these use cases is the ability to not only actively pull data from source systems but to receive data that is being pushed from various sources to the central distribution service.

COVID-19 introduced an unprecedented level of volatility in world markets, and the shockwaves that arrived in its wake exposed a wide chasm between two main types of multinational organizations: Those with agile internal processes and those without. In a world built on complex and globalized supply chains, COVID-19 tested that internal agility, sometimes to breaking point.