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The reasons for writing reports in business are pretty compelling. Without them, you can’t have a complete overview of any past periods to evaluate your performance, fix mistakes, and replicate strategies that helped you achieve your goals. Moreover, you get to plan for the future and create an actionable plan based on the data you collected and presented in a report.

Five things to know about data integration for B2B ecommerce: Business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce companies share many of the same data integration obstacles as their business-to-consumer (B2C) counterparts—managing multiple data types, abiding by data governance guidelines, merging data with partners, etc. Still, many data integration solutions cater specifically to ecommerce enterprises in the B2C space, so integrating data remains a challenge for the B2B sector.

Here are five things to know about processing unstructured data: Unstructured data is big. Really big. According to an MIT Sloan School of Management study, 80-90 percent of data is unstructured information such as photos, text, audio, emails, and social media posts. This should come as no surprise to e-commerce retailers who collect and store unstructured data from invoices, online product reviews, sales presentations, and chatbot conversations with customers.

Today we are announcing the Preview of BigQuery Remote Functions. Remote Functions are user-defined functions (UDF) that let you extend BigQuery SQL with your own custom code, written and hosted in Cloud Functions, Google Cloud’s scalable pay-as-you-go functions as a service. A remote UDF accepts columns from BigQuery as input, performs actions on that input using a Cloud Function, and returns the result of those actions as a value in the query result.

Global research reveals that 77% of enterprises lack real-time access to ERP data, leading to poor business outcomes and lost revenue.

Learn what data literacy is, why it’s important, and the 7 expert ways you can improve your team’s data literacy skills today.

Drag and drop analytics are more interactive and user-friendly compared to traditional, high code business intelligence (BI) solutions. They allow users without programming experience to easily explore the data and don't require coding knowledge, with a drag and drop user interface to conveniently enhance functionality of any dashboard report. In this post, you will find the importance of drag and drop analytics for more seamless reporting and user experiences when analyzing business-critical data.