Data is the lifeblood that runs through your organization. It powers automated workflows, gives customer service reps the full story every time the phone rings, drives every upgrade planned for a product, informs decision-making leaders on what to focus next, and an endless list of etceteras. Wouldn’t it be amazing to have all your data in one place? Yes. Can you? Well…. It’s complicated.

It’s one of the great paradoxes of doing business in the 21st century: Customers expect more personalized products and services even as in-person customer contact decreases. This is just one of several disruptive trends facing every industry. At the first day of Hitachi Financial Services Summit 2021, I addressed these challenges in a keynote session with Marek Chlebicki of Raiffeisen Bank International.

Snowflake was architected with cross-cloud security built into its core, providing multiple layers of robust protection from network access, to authentication and access control, to data protection using encryption (for more details on Snowflake security, check out the on-demand session from Snowflake Summit). For the most-regulated customers around the world, enabling private connectivity is a critical first line of defense.

It’s great when analysts, media members and industry thought leaders tout your company’s leadership; it’s a point of pride for all of us behind the scenes working to continually improve Qlik Sense’s position as a leading and world-class analytics platform. However, the biggest praise (for me) comes from customers/users – the people Qlik Sense helps – whose recognition assure me we’ve really delivered.