Let’s be honest, the ‘Data Lake’ is one of the latest buzz-words everyone is talking about. Like many buzzwords, few really know how to explain what it is, what it is supposed to do, and/or how to design and build one. As pervasive as they appear to be, you may be surprised to learn that Gartner predicts that only 15% of Data Lake projects make it into production. Forrester predicts that 33% of Enterprises will take their attempted Data Lake projects off life-support.

When most people think of Business Intelligence, they think of dashboards. But despite the fact that dashboards are the default approach to BI, there are a range of business use cases today where dashboards are failing (miserably).

We hope you’ve had a fantastic summer and are now enjoying the fall. After our release of Bugfender 2 earlier in the year, we’ve been fine tuning and adding many UI improvements. We’ve also been working on an improved filter view, enhancing issues and adding React Native support – all coming very soon, so watch this space.

Talend Fall ’18 is here! We’ve released a big update to the Talend platform this time around including support for APIs, as well as new big data and serverless capabilities. You will see blogs from my colleagues to highlight those major new product and features introductions. On my side, I’ve been working passionately to introduce Talend Data Catalog, which I believe has the potential to change the way data is consumed and managed within our enterprise.

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.

When we think of other products in Bugfender’s space, we don’t really think of competitors; we think of alternatives. Because, being honest, Bugfender doesn’t really have any direct competitors. That sounds like cheesy marketing, right? Yep, we get that. And we don’t say it to be arrogant. We say it because Bugfender was built to provide a unique service in our space. In fact it’s designed to serve the specific needs of our parent company, Mobile Jazz.

As we covered in our recent NLP blog, there are a lot of cool use cases for text / sentiment analysis. One recent instance we found really interesting came out of our May presentation at SeaTUG (Seattle Tableau User Group.)

We’ve recently experienced two fairly large system problems that have affected approximately 35% of our clients. The first issue took 50 minutes to resolve and the other approximately 10 hours. The root cause in both cases was the way we handled the provisioning of adhoc sandboxes on top of our SnowflakeDB (a few words about “how we started w/ them”).

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.