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Getting your customer's data on the platform quickly and effectively is crucial for any business. How well you onboard new data will affect your success and your customer's experience. Effective onboarding affects so many aspects of a company's success that it's necessary to take a detailed look into all aspects of the process. The following is everything you need to know about data onboarding.

“More than 15 billion IoT devices will connect to the enterprise infrastructure by 2029.” Finding data is not going to be a challenge, clearly, but taking advantage of it all to drive business outcomes will be. Combining AI and machine learning (ML) with data collection and processing capabilities of the edge and the cloud may hold the answer.

Both businesses and governments have been forced to respond to the global pandemic by developing interactive user experiences and spatial applications using location-based data sets to visualize COVID cases, communicate confinement measures, and track vaccine rollout progress.

Hightouch and Fivetran turn your data warehouse into your customer data platform.

Over the past few years, many organizations have experienced the benefits of migrating their SAP solutions to Google Cloud. But this migration can do more than reduce IT maintenance costs and make data more secure. By leveraging BigQuery, SAP customers can complement their SAP investments and gain fresh insights by consolidating enterprise data and easily extending it with powerful datasets and machine learning from Google.

For more than three decades, Microsoft SQL Server has helped countless organizations store and manage their enterprise data, and it’s still one of the most widely used software applications on the planet. According to the DB-Engines database ranking, SQL Server remains the third most popular database management system, just behind Oracle and MySQL. Change data capture (CDC) is essential functionality for many businesses, especially those with real-time ETL use cases.

Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) software. Business professionals have heard of it, but they may not understand how it can help their business. In short, an ERP gathers data from multiple departments, including accounting, human resources, sales and marketing, and inventory, into a central database. This database then allows members of management and other key employees to analyze their current processes, spot workflow weaknesses, and improve them.

Soft skills can be almost as important as data engineering skills when you apply for a job. Soft skills can make the difference between stress and efficiency or being unsatisfied with your position and a raise. When data engineers and data scientists earn bachelor’s degrees, they usually take classes in topics like data warehousing, programming languages, machine learning, and data science.

With this first article of the two-part series on data product strategies, I am presenting some of the emerging themes in data product development and how they inform the prerequisites and foundational capabilities of an Enterprise data platform that would serve as the backbone for developing successful data product strategies.