Being data-driven is the holy grail of modern business. It allows you to grow 8x faster than your competition, boosts your company’s net earnings by 30% and will have VCs throwing money at you if your organization relies on AI. So, what strategy does one use to become data-driven? Well, it’s actually quite simple: If you follow this recipe to the T, you can have your data cake and eat it.
Every time you write another piece of code that picks up data from an FTP server, a small piece of you dies. As a developer in the data space, you know what we’re talking about. 80% of your time can be taken by building and improving the environment and tools, maintenance tasks, and pieces of functionality. That's simply too much time dedicated away from tackling more important issues.
ETL tools help companies to streamline and enhance their data operations. They automate the repetitive tasks involved in extracting raw data from sources, transforming data into a consumable format and loading into data warehouses, where it is ready to be analyzed. With so many offerings available to you, all of which do the heavy lifting ‘out of the box’, it is hard to discern which ETL tool is best suited to your needs.
Following the wave of COVID-19-related responses, the hospitality business has taken an unimaginable hit. Whether it’s the widespread fear of being infected, government-enforced shutdown or the implementation of social distancing, businesses in the hospitality industry are witnessing the decimation of their finances. In the space of just a few weeks, food traffic has fallen by 50%.
The advantages of remote work have been praised for a while now. Team members gravitate towards the flexible work schedule and enjoy an increase in personal freedom, while companies benefit from a talent pool unencumbered by geographical borders. From remote-first tech giants like Automattic (which powers a third of the internet), to newbies such as NASA, companies are steadily progressing towards telecommuting. But working from home comes with its own unique set of challenges.
