Analytics

Snowflake's Retail Data Cloud

The retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry is experiencing a global shift in how consumers, retailers, and brands interact. Long-term trends such as digitization and e-commerce, higher customer expectations, and supply chain transformation are accelerating. Businesses with a strong data foundation are rapidly adapting, and launching new digital capabilities and services.

The Power of Unlocking and Unifying Data

Every day, humans produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. Just to put that number into perspective, there are 18 zeros in a quintillion. Unifying data can allow you to take advantage of it and benefit your business. The vast majority of organizations have collected nearly endless amounts of data. Yet, these same organizations are starving for information that can be used to make more informed decisions. Information may be stored in databases that don’t talk to each other.

6 Best Data Extraction Tools for 2022 (Pros, Cons, Best for)

A data extraction tool can help you speed up one of the most error-prone engineering processes: collecting raw data from different sources. In this article, we are going to analyze the following 6 market leaders in data extraction: Before we dive in, let’s look at all the problems you can avoid by implementing a data extraction tool.

Data Science Maturity and Understanding Data Architecture/Warehousing

This is a guest post for Integrate.io written by Bill Inmon, an American computer scientist recognized as the "father of the data warehouse." Inmon wrote the first book and magazine column about data warehousing, held the first conference about this topic, and was the first person to teach data warehousing classes. Data science is immature. This statement is not pejorative; it is simply a statement of historical fact. As such, it is not arguable.

Welcome to the decade of data

To quote Hemingway: change happens gradually, then suddenly. We see this in the world around us. Think back to 2019. There’s no denying how much the pandemic reshaped our professional and personal lives, with technology driving this change at massive scale. Yet these changes, despite their ubiquity, are really the culmination of trends like cloud and automation that were well underway.

Transformational triumph: eBay's data fabric modernization

In today’s economy, every business is eager to accelerate beyond and above the competition. Critical to this effort is the data your business runs successfully on, its backbone, and a good team behind the magic. Join eBay, the world's leading online marketplace, to hear how they accelerated their operational data with impressive results. Not only did the company experience no downtime, but they reduced data volumes by a whopping 50% — resulting in less friction, smoother operations, and a team built to enable success and scale.

Protect Your Assets and Your Reputation in the Cloud

A recent headline in Wired magazine read “Uber Hack’s Devastation Is Just Starting to Reveal Itself.” There is no corporation that wants that headline and the reputational damage and financial loss it may cause. In the case of Uber it was a relatively simple attack using an approach called Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) fatigue. This is when an attacker takes advantage of authentication systems that require account owners to approve a log in.

5 Magic Fixes for the Most Common CSV File reader Problems | ThoughtSpot

I’ve encountered a thousand different problems with spreadsheets, data importing, and flat files over the last 20 years. While there are new tools that help make the most of this data, it's not always simple. I’ve distilled this list down to the most common issues among all the databases I’ve worked with. I’m giving you my favorite magic fixes here. (Well, okay, they aren’t really “magic” but some of them took me a long time to figure out.)

How to use Google Sheets for data analysis with ThoughtSpot

Businesses have been scaling rapidly in the cloud, driven by the pandemic and lured by the promise of agility and flexibility. But here’s a dirty little secret anyone who works in data knows. Despite the value of the cloud, tons of data hasn’t made it there. So, where is it? Spreadsheets. Still the stalwart workhorse, hero, and bane of the business world. We all love how Google revolutionized this world by bringing spreadsheets to the cloud.