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Taking a practical approach to BigQuery cost monitoring

Google BigQuery is a serverless enterprise data warehouse tool that’s designed for scalability. We built BigQuery to be highly scalable and let you focus on data analysis without having to take care of the underlying infrastructure. We know BigQuery users like its capability to query petabyte-scale datasets without the need to provision anything. You just upload the data and start playing with it.

The tension of user vs technology in BI and analytics

Earlier this year, I attended the Pacific Northwest BI & Analytics Summit. It’s a relatively small industry event that brings together some thought leaders, industry analysts and representatives from major vendors who are all intensely passionate about the BI space. Some of the people who were there include Donald Farmer, Doc Searls, Jill Dyche, Claudia Imhoff, Mike Ferguson and Shaun Rodgers.

Data Matching with Different Regional Data Sets

When it comes to Data Matching, there is no ‘one size fits all menu’. Different matching routines, different algorithms and different tuning parameters will all apply to different datasets. You generally can’t take one matching setup used to match data from one distinct data set and apply it to another. This proves especially true when matching datasets from different regions or countries. Let me explain.

Talend Cloud: A hybrid-friendly, secure Cloud Integration Platform

As enterprises move towards massively scaled interconnected software systems, they are embracing the cloud like never before. Very few would dispute the notion that the cloud has become one of the biggest drivers of change in the enterprise IT landscape and that the cloud has provided IT a powerful way to deploy services in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Developer Roundup Volume II

Can you believe it’s almost 2019? We can’t either, but we’re excited it’ll be another big year for developers. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, due to increased demand for software solutions, developer employment is forecasted to increase 24% from 2016 to 2026 (Qlik’s contributing with these worldwide openings). To compare, the average growth rate for all occupations is 7%.

Hit the "Easy" Button with Talend & Databricks to Process Data at Scale in the Cloud

The challenge today for big data is that 85% of on-premises based Big Data projects fail to meet expectations and over 2/3 of Big Data potential is not being realized by organizations. Why is that you ask? Well, simply put on-premises “Big Data” programs are not that easy.

Are we losing the art of long form analysis?

When I attended the Pacific Northwest BI & Analytics Summit this summer, we had a great discussion about data interpretation and the way organizations consume data. One of the things that came up was how the industry has been so focused on using dashboards as the delivery mechanism for analytics that we’ve lost the art of long-form analysis.

Getting Started with Talend Open Studio: Run and Debug Your Jobs

In the past blogs, we have learned how to install Talend Open Studio, how to build a basic job loading data into Snowflake, and how to use a tMap component to build more complex jobs. In this blog, we will enable you with some helpful debugging techniques and provide additional resources that you can leverage as you continue to learn more about Talend Open Studio.

What the Healthcare Industry Can Teach Companies About Their Data Strategy

The information revolution - which holds the promise of a supercharged economy through the use of advanced analytics, data management technologies, the cloud, and knowledge - is affecting every industry. Digital transformation requires major IT modernization and the ability to shorten time data to insights to make the right business decisions. For companies, it means being able to efficiently process and analyze data from a variety of sources at scale.