Tax teams are taking on an increasingly strategic role within today’s businesses. However, given the rapid pace of change, many executives are still unaware of the untapped strategic potential within these teams. Watch Now: Tax reporting in a changing world Some organizational leaders may still view the tax department as a group of technicians – specialists responsible for tracking changes in the law, calculating tax liability, and filing the necessary paperwork.

Workforces across the world have changed rapidly over the past couple of years thanks, in large part, to two major trends. The first is the rapid digitization and transformation of service offerings during the pandemic. As our working lives shifted from office-based to online-based, the services that enable employees to do their jobs had to follow the same pattern. And with working practices predicted to remain a hybrid mix of office and remote-based, these changes are here to stay.

We are excited to announce the general availability of Apache Iceberg in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). Iceberg is a 100% open table format, developed through the Apache Software Foundation, and helps users avoid vendor lock-in. Today’s general availability announcement covers Iceberg running within key data services in the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)—including Cloudera Data Warehousing (CDW), Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE), and Cloudera Machine Learning (CML).

Exabeam, a leader in SIEM and XDR, provides security operations teams with end-to-end Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response (TDIR) by leveraging a combination of user and entity behavioral analytics (UEBA) and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) to allow organizations to quickly resolve cybersecurity threats.

Going into Snowflake Summit 2022, I was excited to spend time with our customers and partners, and excited to be able to share some of the innovations we’ve been working on. And I was not disappointed! It felt great to experience the energy that only an in-person event can deliver. I relished talking to customers about how our products can help them meet and even surpass their business goals.