Build a Custom OBDC Driver as a Server

With the Simba Technologies SimbaEngine SDK, you can build your own custom OBDC, OLEDB, JDBC, or ADO.NET driver to connect your data source to any application, but did you know that you can create a driver that runs on a server with the switch of a configuration setting? You can convert a SimbaEngine SDK ODBC driver into a server by switching build configurations in Visual Studio within Windows or adding BUILDSERVER=exe to your makefile in Linux, then configuring a registry or INI file.

Customer Intelligence Hub: A Single Pane of Glass for Customer Insight and Action

For most go-to-market (GTM) teams, understanding what’s really happening with a customer right now is harder than it should be. Usage data lives in one system, renewals in another, support escalations somewhere else—and field notes are scattered across tools and docs. By the time someone pieces together a full picture, it’s already out of date. As we began using our own data platform internally, this fragmentation became impossible to ignore.

ThoughtSpot May Release: Your Questions Just Got Smarter Answers

Check out what’s new in ThoughtSpot’s latest release: Spotter learns from your Liveboards and conversations to deliver smarter, more context-aware answers over time. It's now easier than ever to turn complex business questions into trusted, beautifully designed Liveboards with SpotterViz Seamlessly import formulas, measures, and dimensions from Snowflake into ThoughtSpot for a single source of truth across your stack.

The Big AI Lie

Shub Agarwal (Founder of the AI Trust Lab at USC) flips the script. Stop over-investing in massive data overhauls. Instead, reverse your approach: start with a brutal business problem, pull only the specific data needed to solve it, and build incrementally. Chief Data & AI Strategy Officer Cindi Howson agrees that true value comes from scaling immediate business impact, not waiting for a flawless architecture that will never arrive.

When AI Infrastructure Meets Enterprise Data: ClearML on the Dell AI Data Platform

Dell Technologies has published a validated integration of ClearML with the Dell AI Data Platform (AIDP), pairing ClearML’s AI infrastructure capabilities with Dell’s enterprise-managed storage and search engines. The result is a reference architecture that lets AI teams keep moving fast while platform teams keep the data foundation enterprise-grade. Here is what the integration does, why it matters, and where it fits.

Why Healthcare Organizations Need Governed AI Analytics

For healthcare organizations, AI governance is a must-have that can’t be ignored. To safeguard sensitive patient information, healthcare is subject to a variety of different regulations, for example HIPAA in the United States and GDPR in the European Union. As healthcare organizations implement AI, it brings a balance of efficiencies and risks.

Don't Let Your Data Monster Destroy Your Momentum

Every enterprise has a data monster. And a way to take control. From AI to analytics, Confluent supercharges innovation across every organization with reusable, reliable, real-time data. So don’t let your data monster hold you back. Unlock value and unleash business impact with freeflowing, real-time data on The World’s Data Streaming Platform.