Forrester Research recently released the Forester Wave for Streaming Platforms, Q4 2023. We are happy to share that Cloudera ranked as a strong performer, with a top three score for current offering. This score was stronger than anyone outside of one-cloud vendors Microsoft and Google, including a stronger current offering than Confluent. Cloudera is also the strongest on-prem offering and the only fully hybrid offering to achieve a strong performer score.

Fivetran’s fraud detection solution combines data acquisition, ingestion and movement capabilities with BigQuery data analytics and machine learning.

It’s not hyperbole to say that generative AI (gen AI) is radically transforming the advertising, media and entertainment industry. There has been widespread excitement about the potential of gen AI to open brand-new creative opportunities and unlock unprecedented efficiencies. At the same time, there has been understandable concern about issues such as inherent bias, deep fakes and the impact of gen AI on jobs.

Delivering transformational innovation and accurate business decisions requires harnessing the full potential of your organization’s entire data ecosystem. Ultimately, this boils down to how reliable and trustworthy the underlying data that feeds your insights and applications is. This applies to modern generative AI solutions that are particularly reliant on trusted, accurate, and context-specific data.

As technology advances, so do user expectations. Advanced analytics has emerged as a hot topic and a key area of focus for buyers looking to provide higher quality analysis to inform business decision-making in a turbulent market. Furthermore, the era of cheap money is over. Funding is scarce and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) must ensure their offer is seen as an essential expense for financially constrained buyers, delivering quick value, quality, and innovation.

Building scalable and reliable games industry infrastructure with Aiven and Google Cloud services.

In light of tightening budgets, rising costs, and heightened demand for compliance and innovation, there’s no doubt that many companies are increasingly relying on hybrid cloud environments to modernize their current infrastructure and IT operations. But, according to a recent survey, nearly half of businesses are struggling due to the rapid integration of cloud technologies, the complexity of integration processes, a lack of skilled personnel, and the need for comprehensive cybersecurity measures.

Platform Savings for Hybrid Cloud In today’s dynamic business landscape, agility, scalability, and efficiency are prized possessions. Yet, organizations still face numerous challenges including tightening budgets, IT enablement of new pop-up business opportunities, rising costs, cyberattacks, new technology adoption, such as Gen AI, lack of technical knowledge and increasing demand for innovation.

Every winter, members of ThoughtSpot’s research and development teams participate in a company-wide hackathon called Codex. The ideas that come out of Codex are always inspiring, but the Winter 22/23 hackathon was special—OpenAI had just released ChatGPT and the world was buzzing about generative AI.