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June 2023

From community to creation-celebrating a year of Product Ideas

Active listening is an admired and sought after skill in both the professional and personal sphere. After all, who doesn’t love to be heard? But what happens when we apply that mindset to the way our organizations solicit feedback and interact with our customers? We don’t have to make any assumptions to answer this question, because we have the data.

Cookieless authentication in ThoughtSpot Everywhere

Amidst growing concerns around user privacy and regulatory laws, the cookieless paradigm has been gaining momentum over time in digital advertising. In addition, web browsers are increasingly blocking third-party cookies altogether in web sessions, necessitating the need for new authentication methods in web applications. Cookieless authentication is a secure way to verify user identities in web applications without relying on cookies.

Version control APIs with Git integration

Available in beta, we have introduced new version control REST APIs for Git integration in the 9.3.0.cl release of ThoughtSpot Analytics Cloud. ThoughtSpot administrators can now link their instances to a GitHub repository and utilize continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) best practices to effectively manage their organization's analytic content throughout its lifecycle.

ThoughtSpot acquires Mode: Empowering data teams to bring Generative AI to BI

At ThoughtSpot, we know how important it is for businesses of every size and industry to empower every knowledge worker with personalized, actionable data-driven insights. These insights are your secret sauce to making better business decisions, growing faster, and delivering customer experiences that keep people coming back for more. But how do you scale self-service analytics to business users without completely overwhelming your data teams?

How to get the most out of your dbt Cloud instance

You may already be familiar with dbt, but just to be sure we're on the same page, let's revisit the concepts. The Data Build Tool (dbt) is a widely used framework provided by dbt Labs, specifically designed to bridge the gap between data analysts, data engineers, and software engineers, resulting in the creation of a new role in data and analytics: the analytics engineer.

How to activate the Snowflake Data Cloud with AI-Powered Analytics

During Beyond 2023, we officially launched ThoughtSpot Sage, our new search experience that combines the power of GPT’s natural language processing and generative AI capabilities with the accuracy and security of our patented self-service analytics platform. As the experience layer of the modern data stack and an Elite Partner of Snowflake, we are constantly thinking about how our product innovation unlocks value for our shared customers.

Techniques to optimize Google BigQuery performance for AI-Powered Analytics

Google BigQuery is a fully managed, enterprise-scale, cloud data warehouse that helps you store, manage, and analyze your data. This article will take you through the fundamentals of Google BigQuery. I’ll also share optimization opportunities to improve performance when you’re using both BigQuery and ThoughtSpot.

Understanding Needs From All Perspectives Before Applying Tech Solutions

When it comes to investing, it’s been said that the biggest risk of all is not taking one. But for many of us, the prospect of figuring out how and where to smartly invest our money is overwhelming if not flat out confusing. TIFIN is a FinTech company focused on democratizing this process by matching investors to potential investments with AI. In this episode Raja Musunuru, the Chief Product Officer of financial tech leader TIFIN, covers a wide range of topics, from the importance of understanding customer needs, to promoting data fluency across an organization.

Why Cloud Operations Would Benefit From a "On-Premise" Approach to Cost Management

Moving operations to the cloud has obvious benefits, but without discipline costs can quickly spiral out of control. In this clip, Raja Musunuru of TIFIN reiterates the importance of understanding usage and the ability to scale. Get even more insights from data and analytics leaders like Raja on The Data Chief.

ThoughtSpot Generative AI Meet-up - June 2023

Generative AI has created a pivotal moment in our industry. Every company trying to figure out their strategy on how to leverage Generative AI, startups, and big companies alike. Sven Strohband, Partner and Managing Director at Khosla Ventures will talk about what he is seeing among the set of companies he advises.

Conceptual vs logical vs physical data models

Data modeling is not about creating diagrams for documentation sake. It’s about creating a shared understanding between the business and the data teams, building trust, and delivering value with data. It’s also an investment. An investment in your data systems' stability, reliability, and future adaptability. Like all valuable initiatives, it will require some additional effort upfront.