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Power Query in Excel is a versatile tool that simplifies data import, transformation, and analysis. This comprehensive guide will help you master Power Query to enhance your data workflows and efficiency.

Mastering SQL queries in Excel is a game-changer for anyone working with large datasets and complex data management tasks. This blog aims to provide you with a comprehensive guide to effectively utilizing SQL queries within Excel, enhancing your data management capabilities.

Unravel Data, the first AI-enabled data actionability and FinOps platform built to address the speed and scale of modern data platforms, today announced it has been named in the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for Data Observability Tools. According to Gartner, “By 2026, 50% of enterprises implementing distributed data architectures will have adopted data observability tools to improve visibility over the state of the data landscape, up from less than 20% in 2024.

Being inundated with tools and platforms to track, analyze, and optimize your products can be extremely overwhelming, and most of the time, you just get lost in the process of managing all the tools, without really achieving anything actionable. While having access to specialized tools can be beneficial, managing multiple analytics solutions can become counterproductive.

Over the last year, as Snowflake has focused on putting AI tools in the hands of its customers, we have prioritized easy, efficient and safe enterprise generative AI. With that in mind, we’re happy to announce the general availability of safety guardrails for Snowflake Cortex AI with Cortex Guard, a new feature that enables enterprises to easily implement safeguards that filter out potentially inappropriate or unsafe large language model (LLM) responses.

Let’s say you are building a house that you plan to put up for sale. You focus on an amazing design, beautiful entry, large windows for plenty of sunlight — things that will create a delightful experience for your future buyer. At the same time, the house also needs less glamorous but vitally important infrastructure, like plumbing, running water, electricity, heating, cooling and so on.

Today, Snowflake is excited to announce that the Llama 3.1 collection of multilingual large language models (LLMs) are now available in Snowflake Cortex AI, providing enterprises with secure, serverless access to Meta’s most advanced open source model. Snowflake offers the largest context window of any vendor, at 128k, for the Llama 3.1 collection of models.

MotherDuck’s co-founder and CEO Jordan Tigani sat down with Fivetran’s co-founder and CEO George Fraser to discuss the evolutions in data processing, data lakes and more.

The Q2 2024 Confluent Cloud launch introduces a suite of enhancements across the four key pillars of a Data Streaming Platform - Stream, Connect, Process, and Govern – alongside some significant work we have been doing with our partner ecosystem to help customers unlock new possibilities. Confluent has helped over 4,900+ global enterprises start their data streaming journey and was recently named a Leader by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2023.