Analytics

Cloudera DataFlow's key milestones and wins in 2020

Needless to say, 2020 was an unforgettable year in a lot of ways and we were all happy to say goodbye to it. The pandemic has ushered in new ways of how we conduct businesses, remote work cultures, telehealth, grocery/food deliveries, etc. While certain industries were hard-hit by this change, most of the businesses were able to adapt, pivot, and take on this adversity in their stride.

Transform Your TV Into a Powerful SaaS KPI Dashboard in 4 Simple Steps

With 42 percent of Americans still working from home, we're using TVs for more than just Netflix. These viewing screens double up as dynamic digital dashboards, displaying powerful SaaS metrics that power your business. Whether you're working from home or the office, turning your TV into a SaaS KPI dashboard is simple. Five tools are all you need. This guide shows you how to bring business metrics to the small screen with your very own custom SaaS KPI dashboard.

Xplenty and Package Version Control

Version Control is a critical component of any software development team, particularly if you're collaborating with a large group of individuals. When done right, Version Control will help you track changes over time, like scheduling specific versions to accommodate the development of new features and bug fixes. You can even rollback to a specific version with ease as you continue testing.

Xplenty's Industry Leading Support - An Extension To Your Data Team

A cornerstone to any successful SaaS business is great customer support. At Xplenty, one of our four key pillars is ‘Providing Fanatical Support’. For those of you who have been fortunate enough to work with our amazing Support team, you will know that they always go above and beyond to deliver fanatical support.

New Snowflake Features Released in January 2021

Snowflake continued expanding its platform capabilities at the start of the new year, adding updates to data sharing, Snowsight, and data pipelines that help customers and partners access, mobilize, and share their data for better data-driven outcomes. Here’s a brief rundown of some of the exciting announcements from January 2021.

New Leader to a Team? 3 Metrics for Delivering Value.

The President of the USA has a 100 days to prove himself. You only have 90 if you have taken over a new leadership position. If you can’t build a suitable positive new momentum during this time, there might be hard work ahead of you or your leadership might even be doomed to failure. — The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter

Using other CDP services with Cloudera Operational Database

In the previous blog post, we looked at some of the application development concepts for the Cloudera Operational Database (COD). In this blog post, we’ll see how you can use other CDP services with COD. COD is an operational database-as-a-service that brings ease of use and flexibility to Apache HBase. Cloudera Operational Database enables developers to quickly build future-proof applications that are architected to handle data evolution.

Stitch vs. MuleSoft vs. Xplenty: Which ETL is the Winner?

Five differences between Stitch vs. MuleSoft vs. Xplenty: Organizations of all types need to pull data from disparate locations for data analysis. But the average company draws data from over 400 sources, making data integration difficult. Imagine if a technology could compile data from locations such as in-house databases, cloud-based apps, and SaaS and move it all into a centralized location. Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) makes this possible.

Fivetran vs Stitch vs Keboola - Which is the best data tool for you?

There are over 300 SaaS applications that help you automate your data operations. In this crowd of potential solutions, how do you narrow it down to the winning horse? Here we compare three top contenders for your data operations: from data ingestion, via ETL to full data management, we compare side-by-side Fivetran, Stitch, and Keboola to shed light on their respective strengths and weaknesses. Fivetran, Stitch, and Keboola are all cloud-based data platforms.