It’s been a rollercoaster ride for everyone over the last few years, with particular pressure on Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) to support CEOs steering their organizations through things none of us expected to experience in our lifetime. Unfortunately, with the financial markets going into turmoil over the last few months and consumers of all shapes and sizes starting to cut back on spending, the uncertainty isn’t going to stop anytime soon.

10 years ago, it would be ridiculous for people to believe that someday they would be able to use their faces to unlock their phones. That’s because it had been extremely difficult to create cartoon characters without profound drawing skills – but now we can easily turn photos into cartoon characters. Struggling with parallel parking? No worries, because self-parking systems are becoming standard equipment in vehicles.

Every day in the US thousands of legitimate prescriptions for the opioid class of pharmaceuticals are written to mitigate acute pain during post-operation recovery, chronic back and neck pain, and a host of other cases where patients experience moderate-to-severe discomfort.

Cloudera’s SQL Stream Builder (SSB) is a versatile platform for data analytics using SQL. As apart of Cloudera Streaming Analytics it enables users to easily write, run, and manage real-time SQL queries on streams with a smooth user experience, while it attempts to expose the full power of Apache Flink. SQL has been around for a long time, and it is a very well understood language for querying data.

Today Snowflake is officially launching the Telecom Data Cloud. Snowflake’s newest Data Cloud helps telecommunications service providers break down data silos within the business and across the ecosystem, allowing organizations to easily and securely access data in near real time, enrich it with machine learning models, and then share and analyze it to drive better decision-making.