A Simplified Guide to Cloud Data Platform Architecture

Since the 2006 launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s first hyper-scale public cloud provider, thousands of data-driven businesses have shifted on-premise data storage and analytics workloads into the cloud by architecting or adopting a cloud data platform. As the volume, variety, and velocity of enterprise data continues to grow in 2023, cloud data platforms with legacy tech and complex architectures are becoming increasingly time-consuming and costly to manage.

Top 3 data visualizations for finance professionals

Data plays a profound role in finance. In fact, some might argue that finance professionals are some of the most data-driven individuals in an organization. That’s because finance data, and the insights you draw from it, can literally make or break a company. This is especially true in times of economic uncertainty, when businesses are trying to make data-driven decisions about where to invest and cut resource allocation.

Changing Consumer Behavior Transforms The Retail & CPG Industries

It’s no secret that consumer behavior and expectations changed dramatically during the two years of the COVID pandemic, changes that have disrupted supply chains and raised the marketing and customer service bar for retailers. In this episode of “Data Cloud Now,” host Gautam Srinivasan chats with Freddy Guard, Snowflake’s Head of Retail & CPG for North America, about those changes and how it has accelerated the demand for cloud-based, data-driven solutions to meet the challenges those changes have engendered.