“In god we trust, all others must bring data,” a line attributed to the American statistician, W. Edwards Deming, highlights the importance of statistical measurement and analysis in verifying facts and confirming their viability. However, as the volume of data grows exponentially, this becomes far more difficult with each passing month. While the fake news epidemic may be most noticeable on social media platforms, businesses face a similar challenge internally.

At Unravel, we have been working with AWS for some time to help our joint customers simplify data migrations to the cloud. Announced at AWS re:Invent, we are proud to be partnering with AWS on the newly created AWS Partner Network Global Startup Program. Unravel provides detailed insights and recommendations to help enterprises of all sizes slice and dice application workloads to ensure an effective cloud migration strategy.

Nobody likes air travel during the holiday season, especially when it involves long queues at the airport security checkpoints or delayed departures thanks to unfavorable weather. Of course, once onboard, then you have to deal with a crying baby nearby or an eager conversationalist at your side. Oh, the agony!

Whether you stopped by to visit us in person at AWS re:Invent last week or you planned on it but didn’t get a chance, here are some of the most important key points and takeaways.

Looking forward to 2020, there are five things I think we’ll see happen more. We’ve seen a ton of consolidation this year and we’ll see more next year. There are about 75 front-end vendors in the BI space and the reality is that they can’t all survive in the market as it is today. Salesforce purchased Tableau recently and a lot of smaller vendors have already been bought.

There is TED talk by Malcolm Gladwell during which Gladwell discusses the fact that we were actually better off when we only had two kinds of spaghetti sauce to choose from. Today, we stand in supermarket aisles in confusion amid so much more choice.

Unsurprisingly, Modern data apps have become crucial across all areas of the financial industry, with apps for fraud detection, claims processing and compliance amongst others playing a business critical role. Unravel has been deployed by several of the world’s largest financial services organizations to ensure these critical apps perform reliably at all times.

…and how to fix them! We’ve asked our team of Talend experts to compile this top ten list of their biggest bugbears when it comes to jobs they see in the wild – and here it is!

With businesses becoming more data-led, there's now an expectation that you will use numbers when talking about strategy and the state of your business. You can’t do that by just looking at a dashboard because they don’t provide any context to the data. You may see that revenue has gone up but it doesn’t tell you what’s happening in the business or how different parts are performing.

Hello Talend Superheroes!!! Hope all of you are enjoying your time in Talend realm playing with different types of data. Many of you are old-timers of Talend, but everyday new developers are happily joining the band to learn about various superpowers related to data. Like any superhero movie, there is a learning curve to understand and manage the newly acquired capabilities the right way.