Finance teams have played a leading role in the adoption of technology to transform previously inefficient manual or spreadsheet-based processes. While investment in tax and transfer software has tended to lag that in core finance systems, adoption is maturing and pressure from the office of the CFO to implement digital tools is beginning to grow.

For my sixth birthday, my father brought home a globe of the world. It is the best birthday present I have ever received. We had been reading Stefan Zweig’s masterful book on Magellan together, and together, we traced our fingers along the vast, boundless oceans of our world. We lived in a small, tiny apartment, but with that gift, my imagination soared beyond the confines of our cramped home.

Data. Big data is everywhere in your business and odds are good that you have petabytes of it. From your customer's purchasing information to financing data, you need to make sure that you are properly managing your data. This means working on recording, organizing, and analyzing it. As the old expression goes, "Junk in, junk out." If you don't properly manage your data, you'll have nothing but junk. This means that you have to store your data and datasets.

When it comes to big data, the general rule of thumb is "the more of it, the better." With more information at your fingertips, you'll be better equipped to run analytics workflows and uncover valuable insights for data-driven decision-making. However, there's another rule of thumb that applies in situations like these: "sharing is caring." Even if you collect massive quantities of information, its benefit will be limited if other people and software in your organization don't have access to it.

Fintech is the future of finance. From digital wallets to firms that help traditional banks create digital customer solutions, financial technology companies are thriving. Because of this, you may come across plenty of new banking terms. Keeping up with this terminology may seem challenging, which is why we’ve created our guide to the banking API vs Open Banking and Neo Banking.

Note: This is part 2 of the Make the Leap New Year’s Resolution series. For part 1 please go here. When we introduced Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE) in the Public Cloud in 2020 it was a culmination of many years of working alongside companies as they deployed Apache Spark based ETL workloads at scale.

While they may seem similar at first glance, Developer Experience (DX) is not just “User Experience (UX) for developers”. Rather, DX is an extension of UX focused on users who build with technical languages and tooling. DX follows the same core principles of UX but extends it by recognizing that technical details and mechanical processes can be understood and utilized efficiently by a developer.