Analytics

Historically, finance teams largely operated in the background, focusing on record-keeping, compliance, and ensuring that financial operations ran smoothly. Their primary responsibilities revolved around managing costs, balancing the books, and maintaining operational efficiency. In recent years, that has changed.

Whether you’re looking to jump-start a new use case, or accelerate your migration journey, collaborating closely with Confluent and our partners enables you to fulfill the increasing need for real-time customer experiences and applications, opening doors to new growth and success opportunities.

Have you ever struggled to make the value of your data clear to your audience? Numbers and charts are great, but on their own, they often lack the power to inspire your audience to care and act. People also find it hard to understand the results from metrics alone. Conveying the importance of your data, and translating what it means (and why your audience should care) thus requires more context. That's where Stories comes in.

Fivetran's newest innovation, Hybrid Deployment, allows customers to run security-restricted pipelines within their own secure network or VPC, at no additional cost.

As the frenzied hype around generative AI cools off and as we get into the year of ideation, earlier adopters of AI are starting to see the results of initial experimentation. And these conversations are increasingly shifting to a more problem-oriented mentality. A lot of people were understandably swept up in the excitement of all that AI can do, only to find that some use cases were too risky or that those problems could be solved with traditional methods that were less costly.

According to recent survey data from Cloudera, 88% of companies are already utilizing AI for the tasks of enhancing efficiency in IT processes, improving customer support with chatbots, and leveraging analytics for better decision-making. More and more enterprises are leveraging pre-trained models for various applications, from natural language processing to computer vision. For that reason, Cloudera is evaluating a new line of business: Cloudera Integrated Data and AI Exchange (InDaiX).

In the business world, gaining the “unfair advantage” often seems like a strike of great luck and timing (think Zoom and the pandemic). But in reality, it’s often the result of deliberate strategies and actions (in Zoom’s case, delivering a superior user experience). One great strategy: getting the unfair advantage through a best-in-class technology ecosystem.