The ability for cloud data warehouses to provide a single platform that enables organizations to analyze data at any scale is a market changing capability. Sure, much has been made of the ability of applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to this data to gain insight into new areas, ultimately to increase an organization’s competitiveness. There is however a greater level of impact that this architecture can have that can be independent of AI and ultimately inclusive of AI.

When it comes to automation in the BI industry, I think a lot of vendors are holding back. It’s entirely possible to automate the majority of what data analysts do today, but vendors are reluctant to do this because it would impact data analysts and they’re a big gatekeeper in the buying cycle of analytic software.

In January, I’ll start a new game: ask a company to retrieve all the information they have about me in less than 45 days. One of the requirements of CCPA, is to be able to reply to a customer request to have access to all the data you have about them in less than 45 days. These are called the Verifiable Customer Requests. You may be able to complete 10, 20 replies. But what if you received 10 every day? What does it take to keep your customers happy and being compliant?

We are very excited to announce that Unravel is now available for Google Cloud Dataproc. If you are already on GCP Dataproc or on a journey to migrate on-premises data workloads to GCP Dataproc then Unravel is now available immediately to accelerate and de-risk your Dataproc migration and ensure performance SLAs and cost targets are achieved.

Over the summer, Talend released Talend Summer ’19, which includes updates to Talend Cloud and Talend 7.2. The new release serves as the industry’s first fast and easy on-ramp to accelerate the development of all types of integration environments from simple ingestion tasks to the most comprehensive integration scenarios.

According to positive psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, what I described with this skiing experience is known as flow state, defined as an “optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best.” Csíkszentmihályi, who popularized the term in his 1990 book, notes the mental state of flow involves “Being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies.

I recently became a new mom, and like many others, there are many frustrating moments for me, big and small. Stepping into a whole new world of products that I’m not aware of ever existed, playing the guessing game on what size anything my baby will need and for how long, and that late-night diaper run to the store, just to name a few. As a consumer, I’m confused, time-strangled and desperately looking for ways to simplify my shopping experiences, both online and offline.