BigQuery now integrates with Sensitive Data Protection with native SQL functions that allow interoperable deterministic encryption and decryption.

We’re pleased to announce the launch of Snowflake Notebooks in public preview, a highly anticipated addition to the Snowflake platform tailored specifically to integrate the best of Snowflake within a familiar notebook interface. Snowflake Notebooks aim to provide a convenient, easy-to-use interactive environment that seamlessly blends Python, SQL and Markdown, as well as integrations with key Snowflake offerings, like Snowpark ML, Streamlit, Cortex and Iceberg tables.

Snowflake announced the global winners of the sixth annual Data Drivers Awards, the premier data awards that honor Snowflake customers who are leading their organizations and transforming their industries with the AI Data Cloud. This year’s winners of the Data Drivers Awards include data leaders from across global organizations, including Caterpillar, Bentley, Mitsubishi Corporation, Zoom and more.

Streaming ETL is a modern approach to extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) that processes and moves data from source to destination in real-time. It relies on real-time data pipelines that process events as they occur. Events refer to various individual pieces of information within the data stream. Depending on the source and purpose of the data, an event could be a single user visit to a website, a new post on a social media platform, or a data point from a temperature sensor.

Deal broadens FP&A offerings for insightsoftware, delivering more value and confidence in financial transactions and reporting.

The retail industry is constantly evolving, and so is the way that businesses use BI tools. Retail business intelligence (BI) dashboards are now more important than ever, as they allow businesses to monitor their operations in a more comprehensive way. In this article, we explore the benefits of using BI dashboards in the retail industry, and discuss some of the ways in which they are transforming how it operates.