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Enabling data and analytics in the cloud allows you to have infinite scale and unlimited possibilities to gain faster insights and make better decisions with data. The data lakehouse is gaining in popularity because it enables a single platform for all your enterprise data with the flexibility to run any analytic and machine learning (ML) use case. Cloud data lakehouses provide significant scaling, agility, and cost advantages compared to cloud data lakes and cloud data warehouses.

Demand for both entry-level and highly skilled tech talent is at an all-time high, and companies across industries and geographies are struggling to find qualified employees. And, with 1.1 billion jobs liable to be radically transformed by technology in the next decade, a “reskilling revolution” is reaching a critical mass.

Today, we’re hearing from telematics solutions company Geotab about how Google BigQuery enables them to democratize data across their entire organization and reduce the complexity of their data pipelines.

Analytics and data visualizations have the power to elevate a software product, making it a powerful tool that helps each user fulfill their mission more effectively. To stand apart from the competition, today’s software applications need to deliver a lot more than just transaction processing. They must also provide insights that help drive better decisions, alert users to matters that require their attention, and deliver up-to-the-minute information about the things that matter most.

In the past, most software applications were all about “data processing.” In the parlance of old-school management information systems, that meant an almost exclusive focus on keeping accurate transactional records alongside any master data necessary to complete that mission. Transaction processing is important, of course, but in today’s world, applications are expected to deliver a lot more than that.

Information technology has been at the heart of governments around the world, enabling them to deliver vital citizen services, such as healthcare, transportation, employment, and national security. All of these functions rest on technology and share a valuable commodity: data. Data is produced and consumed in ever-increasing amounts and therefore must be protected. After all, we believe everything that we see on our computer screens to be true, don’t we?

Today's increasingly complex and unstable world, together with a continued focus from senior leaders on improving growth, use of technology and addressing workforce issues, means that many savvy organizations are looking towards Revenue Operations