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Next to the healthcare system, COVID-19’s biggest infrastructural burden fell upon the supply chain. Fluctuations in supply and demand of essential goods, along with the oil surplus, led to a freight cliff in mid-April. Outbound tender volume and spot rates bottomed out, which highlighted a massive drop in demand. As the market rebounds, technological investments are key to the industry’s recovery.

No-code is growing quickly. More and more people from all roles and departments are using a wide range of new tools and apps to build and experiment without fighting for engineering resources. This creates amazing opportunities for growth, but it also means data teams have to integrate data from ever-more sources to get a full picture of their business’s operations.

Since the financial crisis of 2008, regulators have been consistently working to identify emerging risks that can potentially result in financial stability events. The growth in cloud adoption across the Financial Services Industry (FSI) and the associated increase in reliance on third-party infrastructure providers has gained the attention of regulators at global, regional, and national levels.

Approximately 300,000 restaurants and food service operators across the United States rely on US Foods as their national distributor for food and supplies. In return, US Foods takes a holistic approach to servicing customers by going beyond food offerings. The distributor provides a comprehensive suite of e-commerce technology and business solutions that help restaurants manage their entire business.

Fivetran is the industry leader of fully managed data integration from lots of different sources to your data warehouse. There are hundreds of popular sources, like Salesforce, Zendesk, NetSuite, and more, for which Fivetran has fully managed, prebuilt connectors that can deliver your data to your warehouse within literal minutes. However, people often struggle to get data from more obscure sources since most data integration tools focus on what is popular.

Cloud computing is a well-established IT option for businesses of all sizes in the modern era, but there are still plenty of organizations that have remained reticent about adoption. If you are in this camp, here is a look at a few of the reasons that migrating an on-premise data warehouse to the cloud may make a lot of sense, in addition to the other contexts in which the cloud could be a better fit for your business.