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What Is Data Preparation? A 5Step Framework for AnalyticsReady Data

Your reports are only as good as your data. When your team spends hours building dashboards and answering leadership questions, mismatched or messy data can quickly erode trust. That’s why data preparation-cleaning, organizing, and aligning your data through structured preparation processes is the first (and most critical) step before you can analyze trends, track goals, or forecast results.

New in Databox: Do Deeper Analysis & Improve Performance Faster with Our New Advanced Analytics Features

After years of feedback from customers and quiet development, we officially launched a powerful new set of advanced analytics features during our May 7th launch event. This release marks a major milestone in our mission to make Business Intelligence (BI) accessible to everyone. We call it DIY BI (Do-It-Yourself Business Intelligence): the idea that anyone, regardless of technical skill, can explore data, find answers, and improve performance without relying on complex tools or a busy data analyst.

Automating Hybrid Cloud Storage with IaC, Red Hat Ansible and VSP 360

At the heart of any enterprise data management strategy is the driving principle of infrastructure as code (IaC), the practice of defining, provisioning and managing infrastructure through code, and a foundational approach for enabling continuous delivery (CD).

Drive Away Tariff-Related Uncertainty With a Find It, Fix It Approach

As a long-established ERP, SAP has earned its trust by helping users streamline and improve financial operations. But the global economy is in a state of rapid flux, making financial navigation challenging. Further, the SAP ecosystem’s technical intricacies add another layer of complexity for those without specialized expertise in managing financial decisions.

Confluent unites batch and stream processing for faster, smarter agentic AI and analytics

On Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®, snapshot queries combine batch and stream processing to enable AI apps and agents to act on past and present data. New private networking and security features make stream processing more secure and enterprise-ready.

EP 24 | Why AI Agents Are the Future of Enterprise AI with Cloudera's Abhas Ricky

AI agents are quickly becoming one of the most powerful tools in the enterprise AI toolkit. According to Cloudera’s latest Agentic AI Survey, 96% of enterprises plan to expand their use of AI agents. But what’s driving this surge, and how can organizations turn hype into results? In this episode of The AI Forecast, host Paul Muller sits down with Abhas Ricky, Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera, to explore the real momentum behind agentic AI. From healthcare to telecom, Abhas unpacks how AI agents are already transforming operations with speed, intelligence, and autonomy.

Confluent Current 2025 highlights

Current 2025 featured two days of engineers figuring out how streaming tech needs to evolve in an AI-driven world. Gone are the days when talks focused on basic Kafka setup. This year, everyone was tackling complex integrations, developer happiness, and practical AI implementation. Still, the event drew a range of people, with plenty of new faces stopping by the Lenses.io booth – clear evidence that Kafka and data streaming continue to attract newcomers.