Your database, at blazing speed, anywhere. That’s it. This Webinar abstract could end right there, but that would be weird, so here are more details: There’s a new and fascinating...

Reports and dashboards typically show a moment in time, a snapshot of your business. To understand what’s happening, you need continuous intelligence. This is increasingly possible thanks to the wealth...

The Briefing Room with Rockset We’ve heard the buzz around the modern data stack, but what about modern data apps? These span logistics tracking, personalization, risk analytics, and a host...

The Briefing Room with DigitalHive Static reports going live, real-time, available and up-to-date whenever needed. Stitching information together and closing the contextual loop on data assets. This is a real-world...

Is it all about the data? or the people? or the workflows? No, it’s all about the company! Organizations that succeed today keep their teams focused on what really matters....

The year of 2021 will likely go down as the most significant and tumultuous in decades for the analytics industry. The Data Lake merged with the Data Warehouse to create...

Are you constantly dreaming of new ways to profit from your company’s best assets? You’re not alone. Many companies create new strategies for marketing the same line of products, not...

Agility rules the data-driven world. Companies that can quickly pivot their attention and resources will consistently outmaneuver the competition. One key to this recipe is an information architecture that enables...

If data is a hammer, every challenge looks like a nail. The blessing and curse of today’s data culture is a plethora of technologies for managing information assets. Navigating towards...

Choosing the right data warehouse for your business intelligence needs can improve user experience, enable more extensive self-service, and speed time to insight and value creation for your organization. Choosing...

Facebook and LinkedIn dominate their space largely because of bulletproof technology stacks. Traditional database and streaming technologies couldn’t cut the mustard, so these Big Tech firms rolled their own, and...

The future is here already; it’s just not evenly distributed. So spoke Futurist William Gibson, who essentially nailed the modern state of enterprise software. Companies that have prepared for the...

The data warehouse has been an analytics workhorse for decades for business intelligence teams. Unprecedented volumes of data, new types of data, and the need for advanced analyses like machine...

Digital Transformation requires a bridge: some mechanism to pull the organization across to the other side. The best strategies take a data-first approach, using a platform to ingest, manage and...

The Briefing Room with Alpha Software Practically ever worker is an information worker these days. Who doesn’t need data to do their job? And much of that data comes from...

Decisions, decisions! With the recent news about CentOS 8, businesses need to make up their minds quickly. Will CentOS Stream fill the void? What about other Linux distributions such as...

As the speed of business continues to increase, companies are keenly focused on specializing their offerings via analytics. At the same time, the potential sources of useful data are growing...

Ever change a tire on a moving car? That may sound crazy, but its akin to the challenge that faces most businesses today. How can critical business systems, and underlying...

Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. That’s especially true in the digital age, as historical data piles up everywhere, and yet so few companies are positioned...

Quality is as quality does! In the data world, quality has been a long-sought, oft-elusive goal. That’s partly because of garbage in, but also because of faulty or fragile data...

There are times when seconds really count, when decisions must be made quickly… or else. This is the domain of mission-critical analytics, when downtime is not an option. Provisioning such...

The Briefing Room with Looker A wise man said: “Well-done platform APIs are the key to everything.” That man was Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, who clearly saw the...

No! That’s been the answer for years, as the business scuttled whatever bright ideas you brought to the table. The disruption of attempting new ways was viewed as too risky....

Better customer experience, improved employee engagement — these are hallmarks of today’s data-driven organizations. Across vastly different business models, companies are embracing a simple formula for reaping the benefits of...

Time-to-value, time-to-market — these metrics drive innovation. And while analytics will always guide the way, the question these days is how quickly and efficiently you can put those insights into...

Open and straightforward: That’s how analytics should work in today’s Information Economy. But most architectures don’t enable that vision at all. The business changes much faster than data engineers or...

The Briefing Room with Looker and The Bloor Group What’s the fastest path to business value for analytics? Embedded! Unlike traditional solutions, embedded analytics deliver insights within existing business applications....

The Briefing Room with Equalum and The Bloor Group Information architectures work until they don’t. For companies that tempt fate by waiting too long before modernizing, the pain can be...

The Briefing Room with Looker and The Bloor Group Today’s businesses move faster than ever. Rapid advances in e-commerce have changed consumer behavior, driving new expectations within the enterprise. Employees...

The explosion of cloud-managed services continues to rewrite how business gets done. Add to that a sudden shift to work-from-home, and you have a recipe for serious challenges in enterprise...

Future Proof with Looker and The Bloor Group “What an experience!” That’s what customers and partners keep saying as innovators leverage the power of data in action. The use cases...

Future Proof with MANTA and The Bloor Group Do you know what your code did last night? Having visibility into data transformations gives companies tremendous insight into what’s really happening....