Modern data pipelines have become more business-critical than ever. Every company today is a data company, looking to leverage data analytics as a competitive advantage. But the complexity of the modern data stack imposes some significant challenges that are hindering organizations from realizing their goals and realizing the value of data.
Cloud complexity is an inevitability. Regardless of where an organization may be on their cloud journey – on-prem, in the public cloud, or managing an expanding hybrid cloud – the reality is managing the enterprise isn’t getting any easier. Demand continues to rise for greater access to more data across the organization to do things like run analytics and machine learning and to automate more processes.
You want to enable analytics, data science, or applications with data so you can answer questions, predict outcomes, discover relationships, or grow your business. But to do any of that, data must be stored in a manner to support these outcomes. This may be a simple decision when supporting a small, well-known use case, but it quickly becomes complicated as you scale the data volume, variety, workloads, and use cases.
Software company Slack is on a mission to make work simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. Millions of users across more than 150 countries use Slack to collaborate with team members, connect other tools and services, and access information. Marketers at Slack rely on large amounts of data to build custom audiences, manage subscriber consent preferences, and measure campaign performance.
Firms are burdened with tech debt and endless regulatory compliance, often leaving innovation last to receive the necessary budgets. Data-fuelled innovation requires a pragmatic strategy. This blog lays out some steps to help you incrementally advance efforts to be a more data-driven, customer-centric organization.
The Eckerson Group recently presented a CDO TechVent that explored data observability, “Data Observability: Managing Data Quality and Pipelines for the Cloud Era.” Hosted by Wayne Eckerson, president of Eckerson Group, Dr.
Snowflake recently announced results from the 2022 Customer Experience Survey. Hopefully, you’ve already heard about Snowflake’s overall Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 72*, a score more than three times the industry average of 21, based on the Qualtrics 2021 NPS Industry Benchmarking Report. The survey also asked customers for feedback on specific Snowflake experiences along the customer journey, from initially researching the product to implementation to getting help and support when needed.
