Times are tough – adversity is hitting our public sector and healthcare agencies from every angle. Budgets and resources are stretched beyond breaking point with many agencies facing multi-million real-term cuts. Combine this with an increase in complex demand, heightened public scrutiny and a continued expectation of improvement; something must change.

This month we released several new features in beta, including query scheduling, new BigQuery ML models and functions, and geospatial types and queries. We also released the ORC ingest format into GA. Let’s take a closer look at these features and what they might mean for you.

How do you protect the stability of the work you’ve already done, while evangelizing experimentation, exploration and progress within your organization? The rapid evolution in business intelligence and analytics capabilities is both exhilarating and overwhelming.

BigQuery, Google Cloud’s serverless, highly scalable, low-cost, enterprise data warehouse, was designed to make data analysts productive. With no infrastructure to manage, customers can focus on analyzing data using familiar Standard SQL, while simplifying database administration and data operations. Large enterprises, mid-market growing organizations, and cloud native startups across the globe can use BigQuery to perform analytics at scale with equal ease.