Analytics

Why Data Engineers Should Consider Microsoft Azure

Modern applications don’t function in isolation. To get the most out of the enterprise apps you build or buy, you’ll have to connect them to other applications. In other words, data engineers have to engage in effective application integration to achieve their business goals. Sometimes, this means connecting one application directly to another. But this is a rare occurrence in digitally transformed industries.

Goodbye 2020 - Hello 2021 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms

The wait is nearly over, and soon we’ll all be privy to this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms. Qlik is proud of its 15-year history and ranking as a leader for the last decade in this signature research, and we are enthusiastic about sharing a complimentary copy of the full report when it publishes at this location: https://www.qlik.com/us/gartner-magic-quadrant-2021

5 Ways to Process Small Data with Hadoop

From system logs to web scraping, there are many good reasons why you might have extremely large numbers of small data files at hand. But how can you efficiently process and analyze these files to uncover the hidden insights that they contain? You might think that you could process these small data files using a solution like Apache Hadoop, which has been specifically designed for handling large datasets.

How to configure clients to connect to Apache Kafka Clusters securely - Part 3: PAM authentication

In the previous posts in this series, we have discussed Kerberos and LDAP authentication for Kafka. In this post, we will look into how to configure a Kafka cluster to use a PAM backend instead of an LDAP one. The examples shown here will highlight the authentication-related properties in bold font to differentiate them from other required security properties, as in the example below. TLS is assumed to be enabled for the Apache Kafka cluster, as it should be for every secure cluster.

Prioritizing Your People with Randy Wigginton of Square | Snowflake Inc.

Randy Wigginton, Director of Platform Infrastructure Engineering at Square talks about what it takes to produce world-changing innovations, how to use data to fully understand your customers, insights into how to compete with tech giants, and much more. Rise of the Data Cloud is brought to you by Snowflake.

Cloudera Flow Management Continuous Delivery while Minimizing Downtime

Cloudera Flow Management, based on Apache NiFi and part of the Cloudera DataFlow platform, is used by some of the largest organizations in the world to facilitate an easy-to-use, powerful, and reliable way to distribute and process data at high velocity in the modern big data ecosystem. Increasingly, customers are adopting CFM to accelerate their enterprise streaming data processing from concept to implementation.

How Infutor Uses the Placekey External Function to Extend the Power of Snowflake

The Snowflake Data Cloud provides the unique ability for anyone to join their own data sets with thousands of live third-party data sets near-instantly, securely, and without moving data. Businesses operating in the Data Cloud gain a huge advantage over their competitors who are stuck in data silos and struggling with stale data sets downloaded from their legacy data providers weeks, months, or years ago.

How Customer Success Managers Drive Digital Transformation

Before the end of the year, I met with Christina McCoy, a Customer Success Manager for our federal region. We discussed some of her observations and proven practices for driving adoption in her accounts. Christina joined Qlik two years ago; she has over five years of CSM experience and is a graduate of Howard University, where she was a pitcher for the Bison’s softball program.