In spite of diligent digital transformation efforts, most financial services institutions still support a loose patchwork of siloed systems and repositories. These dis-integrated resources are “data platforms” in name only: in addition to their high maintenance costs, their lack of interoperability with other critical systems makes it difficult to respond to business change.

Sometimes, you find yourself searching for bugs without any specific purpose or direction. This occurs when your QA team lacks the proper mindset and strategy for exploratory testing. Without clear guidance or goals, your test coverage will be inadequate, and you'll have less productive use of your time. In his book Exploratory Software Testing: Tips, Tricks, Tours, and Techniques to Guide Test Design, James Whittaker provides a practical solution to help you level up your exploratory testing.

How Fivetran Transformations help you accelerate time to value and utilize the best practices of data transformation’s top tooling - dbt Core.

Learn how Fivetran’s connector for Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM and Dynamics 365 Finance empowers you to activate and analyze your data effectively.

Google BigQuery is a fully managed, enterprise-scale, cloud data warehouse that helps you store, manage, and analyze your data. This article will take you through the fundamentals of Google BigQuery. I’ll also share optimization opportunities to improve performance when you’re using both BigQuery and ThoughtSpot.

BI and analytics are both umbrella terms referring to a type of data insight software. Many providers use them interchangeably, but some use them in conjunction, claiming to offer both business intelligence and business analytics. This of course makes us wonder: what’s the difference?