Analytics

Apps are the way to democratize AI: to make it accessible to everyone and streamline customers’ experiences with faster time to insights. According to a recent IDC survey, AI applications is currently the largest category of AI software, accounting for roughly one-half of the market’s overall revenue in 2023.

In today’s world, innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum; collaboration can help technological breakthroughs happen faster. The rise of AI, for example, will depend on the collaboration between data and development. We’re increasingly seeing software engineering workloads that are deeply intertwined with a strong data foundation.

Businesses that are best able to leverage data have a significant competitive advantage. This is especially true in financial services, an industry in which leading organizations are in constant competition to develop the most responsive, personalized customer experiences. Often, however, legacy infrastructure, data silos, and batch systems introduce significant technical hurdles.

Market data analytics has always been a classic use case for Apache Kafka. However, new technologies have been developed since Kafka was born. Apache Flink has grown in popularity for stateful processing with low latency output. Streamlit, a popular open source component library and deployment platform, has emerged, providing a familiar Python framework for crafting powerful and interactive data visualizations. Acquired by Snowflake in 2022, Streamlit remains agnostic with respect to data sources.

It’s not a surprise that in today’s challenging economic landscape, rising costs pose a significant threat to the telecommunications industry. Consider that in 2022, Bain Capital was predicting that Telcos would grapple with increased personnel and escalating operating costs due to inflation. And here we are.

A data catalog is a collection of metadata that acts as a comprehensive inventory of an organization’s data assets. It provides an overview of all the data available, regardless of its location or technical details. This collection helps analysts and other data users find the needed data.

At Qlik World 2023, Mike Capone stood on stage and proudly announced the acquisition of Talend to form Qlik’s Data Business Unit. The Data BU had the charter to combine the best of Qlik Data Integration with Talend and Stitch Data to deliver market-leading data integration and quality solutions.

The rise of AI brings unprecedented opportunities, deeply rooted in the transformative power of data. As organizations strive for smarter, faster outcomes—whether accelerating product launches, streamlining supply chains, improving customer experiences, or enhancing workforce productivity—they must address five key needs for enterprise AI adoption: Move/ Transform - To effectively adopt AI, companies need to bring together and transform data of all types from all sources.

Fivetran's new offering simplifies data lake table maintenance, delivering optimized, query-ready data that is always in sync.

The complexity and variability of project-based businesses represent distinct challenges for finance and accounting teams. Costing, procurement, subcontractor management, and labor combine to create a level of intricacy that businesses in other sectors don’t have to contend with. How do you navigate the complexity of your project-based financial reporting?