In this episode of CDO Battlescars, Sandeep Uttamchandani, Unravel Data’s CDO, speaks with Meenal Iyer, Sr. Director of Enterprise Analytics and Data at Tailored Brands. They discuss battlescars in two areas, data and metrics: Growing Data Literacy and Developing a Data-Driven Culture and Standardization of Business Metrics.

There is a lot of talk these days about the dashboard being a thing of the past. After all, simply displaying KPIs and visualizations in a dashboard is something everyone can do, right? If monitoring KPIs is all you need to do, then we would agree: The dashboard is largely dead. We can deliver those singular data points to you anywhere, monitoring what you’re interested in, alerting you to changes and triggering action.

In their quest to find out if Keboola could be of wider benefit to a company that has so far been using the platform only as their ETL solution, Michal Hruska, a senior data consultant at Keboola, and Pavel Dolezal, Keboola’s CEO, met with Tim, the company’s data analyst. They sat down to talk about the beaten tracks of working with data and its challenges and the ways Keboola can help solve them.

Here’s how to choose a relational database for your next project.

Companies these days are handling more data than ever: an average of 163 terabytes (163,000 gigabytes), according to a survey by IDG. Efficiently storing, processing and analyzing this data is essential in order to glean valuable insights and make informed business decisions. Yet the question remains: What is the best way to store enterprise data? For many use cases, the most appealing choice is a relational database.

What is multi-cloud data analytics and why are so many companies getting on board? Cloud computing itself is now a well-established best practice, but a multi-cloud strategy is nearly as common these days. While 94 percent of organizations are now using cloud computing, 84 percent are using a multi-cloud data strategy. Multi-cloud is an especially fruitful data strategy for companies pursuing data analytics.

AWS Solution Architects are in red-hot demand, and the AWS Certification is the highest-paying certification in the United States. As such, you wear many hats as a Solution Architect for Amazon Web Services. You're a problem-solver, a creative genius, a multitasker, and a big-picture thinker. And you design AWS implementations better than anyone else you know. But there are some things about being an AWS Solution Architect that aren't so rosy. Amazon's ever-changing recommendations.

2021 is set to be the year of hybrid cloud. In fact, Forbes has even listed it as one of the top 10 digital transformation trends of the year, declaring it the “winning enterprise architecture.” A multiple cloud approach does provide greater choice and greater flexibility – two major benefits at a time when agility and adaptability have never been more important. But this approach comes with greater operational complexity.

It’s been almost a year since I wrote about using Keboola Connection in Keboola. A lot of things have happened since then: my Bloodborne board game finally arrived, I'm a double uncle… oh, and I got engaged. I also celebrated another anniversary this month - seven years of working at Keboola! And I believe that we’ve made some great progress yet again. Last time, I gave somewhat of an intro to our internal reporting.

Our customers share why they chose Fivetran to replicate their database data and how their analytics have improved as a result.