There's been a huge amount of investment in the BI space recently. A recent article by Dave Kellogg talked about the hype in valuation and capital efficiency of many BI companies. It’s an important topic that people purchasing analytics platforms should think about because it says a lot about what priorities a business has.

Talend Cloud enables the use of several prebuilt connectors and components for different services running on cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. This article explores a use case of querying an Amazon Redshift table as part of a Talend Job developed using Talend Studio and executed as a task on Talend Cloud.

The biggest takeaway from Gartner’s Magic Quadrant (the MQ) this year for me is that organizations, analysts, and vendors now realize that analytics is not linear. While many businesses are looking to artificial intelligence and augmented analytics, these don’t replace other types of analytics. There’s very little point in delivering sophisticated advanced automated analytics if you haven’t got your ‘bread and butter’ reporting and governance working.