Have you ever looked at clouds with a friend and seen patterns, shapes, and animals that they just can’t make out? The images appear so obviously to you but no matter how hard you try to show them, your friend sees an entirely different shape, or perhaps nothing at all. Building product features can be a similar exercise in frustration. As designers and builders, sometimes we see our own “cloud shapes” in the product.

At this point, we can pretty confidently project that the cloud isn’t going anywhere. In the last few years, we’ve seen critical production workloads move to the cloud en masse—and that’s only going to continue. Now that the shift has occurred, other companies will need to get on board as well. The question is no longer if a company should adopt cloud but when and how. Ajeet Singh, ThoughtSpot’s Co-founder and Executive Chairman, is no stranger to embracing change.

CDOs are charged with leading their organizations to become more data-driven. In 2021, this mission is more critical as the distance between data-driven organizations and laggards widened. For many, this means accelerating digital transformation plans.. Last year, ten-year plans got compressed into a single year. Companies raced to implement new technologies - everything from digital payments, store fronts, chat bots, cloud databases, and augmented analytics solutions