Companies from every industry vertical, including finance, retail, logistics, and others, all share a common horizontal analytics challenge: How do they best understand the market for their products? Solving this problem requires companies to conduct a detailed marketing, sales, and finance analysis to understand their place within the larger market. These analyses are designed to unlock insights in a company's data that can help businesses run more efficiently.

Google BigQuery was released to general availability in 2011 and has since been positioned as a unique analytics data warehousing service. Its serverless architecture allows it to operate at scale and speed to provide incredibly fast SQL analytics over large datasets. Since its inception, numerous features and improvements have been made to improve performance, security, reliability, and making it easier for users to discover insights.

Recently, Cloudera announced the release of Cloudera CDP Private Cloud, delivering the final component of our hybrid cloud strategy. There’s nothing comparable to it in the industry. CDP Private Cloud offers benefits of a public cloud architecture—autoscaling, isolation, agile provisioning, etc.—in an on-premise environment.

Comprehensive, comparative analysis of our data can be a highly time-consuming manual task for your users. But new-wave automation and machine learning (ML) tools makes monitoring, alerting and gleaning new insights a lot faster. One such example is Yellowfin Signals and the latest addition to its extensive algorithm library, called step change.

It is hard to believe if you have had previous experience with setting up, sizing, and deploying a distributed search engine service that this is possible. Imagine how many times IT has lost valuable time spending hours trying to understand Apache Solr application requirements and map them into how to best size and deploy the Solr service. Time that is lost to Line of Business as well.

Live data-streaming offers businesses exciting new opportunities to transform the way they operate, leveraging real-time insights to drive better decision making and enhance operational efficiency. To find out more about how streaming data might impact the financial services sector I sat down for a chat with Dinesh Chandrasekhar, Head of Product Marketing in Cloudera’s Data-in-Motion Business Unit.

The way that people do business in Japan has radically changed as a result of COVID-19. Historically, the Japanese have been very much about face to face relationship selling where you establish relationships and build trust but now everything has to be done remotely or online. Like everyone else, the Japanese are really keen to keep doing business so they've actually embraced the remote way of doing things which has been quite interesting to watch and had some unexpected benefits.

Service Management Group (SMG) offers an easy-to-use experience management (XM) platform that combines end-to-end customer and employee experience management software with hands-on professional services to deliver actionable insights and help brands get smarter about their customers. The XM platform, smg360, helps customers across verticals, including restaurants, retail, and healthcare, drive changes that boost loyalty and improve business outcomes.

From leading banks, and insurance organizations to some of the largest telcos, manufacturers, retailers, healthcare and pharma, organizations across diverse verticals lead the way with real-time data and streaming analytics. These businesses use data-fueled insights to enhance the customer experience, reduce costs, and increase revenues. And Cloudera is at the heart of enabling these real-time data driven transformations.

This was one of the key takeaways from student Noah Bledsoe in the latest episode of the Data Brilliant – Unplugged series, which explored how Radford University is arming its students with data skills to prepare them for the future world of work.