I’m calling it now. The next battleground for analytics adoption among business users will be the productivity suite. Let’s unpack that statement by considering these two examples: Traditional BI has always forced you down a one-way street for answers—drop what you are doing, login to the BI tool, and pray to the data deities that you can find the answer you’re looking for.

By integrating Vertex AI foundation models in BigQuery, you can analyze unstructured data from right inside BigQuery.

In the rapidly evolving business technology landscape, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have emerged as essential tools for organizations looking to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and elevate decision-making processes. An ERP system integrates various business processes, such as finance, human resources, sales, and inventory, into a unified platform, fostering cohesion and productivity.

Introducing Confluent Platform version 7.5, which offers a range of new features to enhance security, improve developer efficacy, and strengthen disaster recovery capabilities. Building on the innovative feature set delivered in previous releases, Confluent Platform 7.5 makes enhancements to three categories of features: The following explores each of these enhancements and dives deep into the major feature updates and benefits.

The Python web framework Django is an excellent choice for building performant web apps. Disqus, Pinterest, and Instagram are all built on a Django foundation. Django offers simplicity, flexibility, reliability, scalability, and all the tools you need to build a web app from admin to authentication to ORM. But this “batteries included” approach has disadvantages. It can hide a lot of the true complexity of an app from developers. Django ORM is a great example.