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The 5 best tools for visualizing e-commerce data are: Whenever you encounter a thorny business problem, data is your secret weapon. By deploying tools for business intelligence and data analytics, you can crunch very large datasets and get real-time insights to assist your decision-making process.

Here are seven key differences between data lakes vs data warehouses: A lot of terms get thrown around in the big data space that every business should understand. Many of these terms are easily confused with each other. This is the case with data lakes vs data warehouses. What are some of the most important differences between them, and how can your business use them most effectively for data analytics and data management? Read on to learn the differences between data lakes and data warehouses.

Five differences between using an ETL platform vs. writing your own code: The ETL (extract, transform, load) process is one of the most critical, and one of the most challenging, parts of enterprise data integration. But what if we told you there was a low-code ETL solution to your problems?

Functional testing is one of the final steps before a software application goes live, and it’s designed to ensure critical user paths are operating correctly. It’s a kind of black box testing that doesn’t evaluate the underlying code of the application, but instead tests whether a specific input leads to an expected output in the user interface (UI).

The past two years have seen significant disruption across sectors, markets and technology dynamics, forever changing the way businesses, workers, and customers use data. But while global conditions have created uncertainty, it’s also driven more opportunities for organizations to optimize processes to respond faster to evolving customer demands, competitor shifts, and new risks - leveraging new, innovative data solutions.

In March, Snowflake continued to enhance its capabilities around data programmability and data pipeline development, with the Snowpark API and stored procedures for Java now in public preview, schema detection now generally available, and the Snowflake SQL API generally available. In addition, Snowflake’s user interface, Snowsight, is generally available. Not to mention an expanded selection of new partners to choose from in Snowflake Data Marketplace.

Once upon a time, the retail calendar centered itself on the Christmas season. Now, the retail surge is year-round. Not just the wave of traditional seasonal holidays from Valentine’s Day to the 4th of July, but also newer sales holidays, such as Cyber Monday, or even holidays created by some gigantic companies themselves, like Amazon’s Prime Day. Now, instead of a steady pace leading up to a frenzied December, retailers are in sprint mode all the time.

Usually, your business users request you share the business reports in Spreadsheets. They are highly familiar with Sheets and prefer their reports on Sheets only. They assume delivering reports in XLS format is easy and quick. But, we understand the efforts and time required to export reports to Spreadsheets. Every time, you will have to run queries on your centralized data at the warehouse and then export results in XLS format. You may need to edit and update the Sheet regularly.

What can you do to improve your reporting process? Learn what tactics to try and avoid from 59 data experts.

Business transformation is about fundamentally changing how a business operates to keep pace and remain competitive in the new digital-first environment. The goal is to adopt modern technology to improve the customer experience and corporate culture through improved operating models and technology. Read more about the elements of business transformation, why it matters, and how companies like Netflix have huge business transformation success.