One of the big trends we’ve seen this year is organizations going direct to consumer. Manufacturers who sold through retail outlets are moving online, and as a result a huge amount of digital transformation is occurring. A customer of ours has done exactly that. Kyowa is a Japanese cosmetics and health food company and they’ve moved from retail to online and digital, and Yellowfin has been a significant part of that journey. In particular, they’ve used Signals.

Snowflake is delighted to share the findings of a new Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study that examines the potential return on investment for organizations that procure Snowflake through Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace and then use Snowflake as a core part of your application’s architecture. We commissioned the study in partnership with AWS.

This is the 3rd blog in our series on Snowflake Resource Optimization. In parts 1 and 2 of this blog series, we showed you how Snowflake’s unique architecture allows for a virtually unlimited number of compute resources to be accessed near-instantaneously. We also provided best practices for administering these compute resources to optimize performance and reduce credit consumption.

So, you’ve made a cool People Analytics App, filled it with data from your HCM, Finance, Talent Review System, and Recognition System (I could go on). You’ve also governed access to it to specific people and can use it to tell compelling stories.

So, you’ve made a cool People Analytics App, filled it with data from your HCM, Finance, Talent Review System, and Recognition System (I could go on). You’ve also governed access to it to specific people and can use it to tell compelling stories.

Lifetime Value vs Acquisition Cost: The LTV:CAC ratio, a golden metric scrutinized by VC’s and Growth Marketers alike, requires not just the integration of dozens of data sources, but also the know-how to build reports that make sense to industry pros.

We’re excited to share that after adding ANSI SQL, secondary indices, star schema, and view capabilities to Cloudera’s Operational Database, we will be introducing distributed transaction support in the coming months. The ACID model of database design is one of the most important concepts in databases. ACID stands for atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. For a very long time, strict adherence to these four properties was required for a commercially successful database.