Usually, your business users request you share the business reports in Spreadsheets. They are highly familiar with Sheets and prefer their reports on Sheets only. They assume delivering reports in XLS format is easy and quick. But, we understand the efforts and time required to export reports to Spreadsheets. Every time, you will have to run queries on your centralized data at the warehouse and then export results in XLS format. You may need to edit and update the Sheet regularly.

What can you do to improve your reporting process? Learn what tactics to try and avoid from 59 data experts.

Business transformation is about fundamentally changing how a business operates to keep pace and remain competitive in the new digital-first environment. The goal is to adopt modern technology to improve the customer experience and corporate culture through improved operating models and technology. Read more about the elements of business transformation, why it matters, and how companies like Netflix have huge business transformation success.

Our five key points: Value shoppers are the savvy buyers, the ones always on the lookout for the best deals and who knows where to find every discount and coupon. If you're an e-commerce retailer, the importance of understanding your value shoppers can’t be overstated. Consumers searching for a great deal will absolutely look elsewhere if they’re not impressed by your online offerings.

Some 300 million years ago, Earth had one continent called Pangea. Over millions of years, that vast single land mass broke up and drifted in different directions, creating the seven continents that exist today. Since the planet changed so dramatically over millennia, it raises an obvious question: How will it change in the future? The same forces, plate tectonics and continental drift, that broke up Pangea hundreds of millions of years ago still exert themselves.

“Without clean data, or clean enough data, your data science is worthless.” Michael Stonebraker, adjunct professor, MIT AI is one of the fastest-growing and most popular data-driven technologies in use. Nine in ten of Fortune 1000 companies currently have ongoing investments in AI. So you may be wondering: how could there possibly be another AI winter?

Companies nowadays are well aware of the importance of embedded analytics when it comes to being data-driven. Today, building your own analytics infrastructure into your software applications for your customers is not the only option anymore. There is a growing market of embedded analytics tools that offer purchasable solutions for data analysis.

Ably is a distributed pub/sub edge messaging platform that acts as the broker in realtime data streaming pipelines. Publishers send messages to Ably, and we deliver those messages to subscribers. We guarantee: In this article, we describe how Ably can make such guarantees in the face of network outages. We cover the redundancy built into our server clusters and the design we have used to ensure message ordering and exactly-once delivery.

Is it possible to create an event-based architecture on top of the existing API ecosystem? We are all creatures of convenience.

From knowing your cash inflows and outflows and testing out pricing strategies, here is how to create an accurate SaaS cash flow forecast.