ByAdrian Bridgwater

November 28, 2023

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Algolia leads charge for worldwide general-purpose knowledge discovery software Search is expanding, variegating and proliferating. Search still exists on the web – that core standard is unli...

ByEricKavanagh

July 22, 2023

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Knowledge is power. That’s true for humans, but also for technology systems. The IoT craze we see throughout the business world speaks volumes about this. All those sensors provide valuable i...

ByAdministrator

May 24, 2023

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by John Peluso | Chief Product Officer, AvePoint In 2022, global spending on cloud computing reached more than $350 billion, but as much as 30% of these investments could be wasteful. Many organiza...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

May 18, 2023

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Technology is dirty. Obviously not in the muck and grime kind of a sense, but IT has a ‘dirt factor’ that needs cleaning up in terms of its environmental impact. From our hardware unit’s operationa...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

May 8, 2023

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Appian has announced the release of the latest version of the Appian Platform for process automation. The new release introduces AI Skills Designer, a no-code way to build, train, and deploy custom...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

April 25, 2023

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This month has seen the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) host Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam.  As part of the wider drive to get hold of more CNCF tooling, many developer...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

April 7, 2023

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Observability just happens. Spoiler alert not really needed, of course we all know that’s not true.  Observability only happens when we take a concerted approach to implementing software toolsets t...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

February 10, 2023

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It’s been a busy week at Civo Navigate 2023. As (arguably) the first tech conference of the year (yes, okay, don’t write in, we all have calendars and we know when CES is), the gathering of Kuberne...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

February 10, 2023

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“We’re launching a new application management platform,” said the developer innovation lead… some people called him/her an advocate, some knew them as an evangelist, but those in the know just refe...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

January 30, 2023

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In the search for next-generation data technologies, we need to get down to the mall, the marketplace and the virtual trading zone to really understand how data is being exchanged across modern clo...

ByAdministrator

January 19, 2023

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by TSG  Cloud computing has been experiencing a boom for the last few years, with global spending on services reaching £46.3 billion in the first financial quarter of 2022, according to research fr...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

January 19, 2023

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As we know, New Relic is a cloud-based company that focuses on performance and availability monitoring. Its technology proposition is founded in the use of a standardized Apdex (application perform...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

January 13, 2023

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Come and use the cloud, they said. The first wave of cloud providers (remember Rackspace et al?) and the ensuing breed of hyperscaler Cloud Services Providers (CSPs) that we know as the ‘big three’...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

January 6, 2023

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Did we mention that we’re on an observability trip here at Inside Analysis?  It’s a key trends that we need to follow, but why? Well, it’s because a) cloud is inherently virtualized, so the need to...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

December 6, 2022

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Water systems make a good analogy for understanding the world of data. Data lakes are enormous centralized repositories, while data streams flow freely at high speeds and high volumes. Data lakehou...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

December 1, 2022

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Would anyone or anything or any entity be bold enough to call themselves (or itself) an ‘all-in-one’ observability platform? One company would… and it’s New Relic.  There’s always that thorny...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

November 28, 2022

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There are many steps to successful software delivery. There are many methodologies, many languages, toolkits, components, plug-ins, API use cases and there are many best practices. Without assuming...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

November 23, 2022

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Don’t call Dynatrace a cloud monitoring company, an observability business or a cloud management specialist, please. Dynatrace has been (and mostly still is) all that, but the Dynatrace of today is...

Bywyaddow

November 9, 2022

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A book that focuses on data quality for data pipeline ETLs — data observability and data reliability too! O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2022-09-02, ISBN: 978-1-098-11204-2 Many books and tutori...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

November 9, 2022

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The artist formerly known as RapidAPI is now to be known as Rapid. It’s a telling evolution for any company brand to be drop the second part of its official moniker, especially when that part of th...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

November 2, 2022

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Think back for a moment. When was the first time you heard the term ‘dashboard’ applied to any device, commodity, product, service or thing outside of the automotive space? For software engineers f...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

October 31, 2022

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Britain’s Queen Victoria was well known for her voracious appetite (she liked smoked haddock washed down with a dram of Scotch whisky, apparently), her undying love for Prince Albert and her no-non...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

October 27, 2022

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Kubernetes is important. The cloud container orchestration technology has formed an all-pervading, arguably widely enduring and almost ubiquitous level of adoption and penetration across the modern...

Byrobin-bloor

October 19, 2022

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Web 3.0 is coming. You may have heard rumors to that effect, but have you any idea what it is? If not, you should read on — its impact is likely to be dramatic. Web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 You may think t...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

October 17, 2022

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Get your swimsuit on. If we drink the Kool-Aid at Current 2022 with Confluent (spoiler alert, we kind of have) then we will accept the stream-centric proposition put forward by company CEO and co-f...

ByAdrian Bridgwater

September 28, 2022

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Today we know that web search is Google, that’s not enterprise search.  Over and above the casual user’s browsing of the web using the obviously world-renowned Google search engine (other search en...

Byrobin-bloor

September 26, 2022

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“Reality Doesn’t Fit on Disk!” So claims Chris Sachs, the CTO of Swim, and co-host of SoftWare In Motion. Chris was discussing the important subject of data relevance with Kavanagh and Bloor ...

Byrobin-bloor

June 27, 2022

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Relational.AI, a company you may not yet know about, is delivering something truly innovative and impressive to the IT world. To explain its importance, it may help if we quickly review the history...

ByVitaly Chernobyl

April 8, 2022

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Some enterprises are still limping along on legacy data warehouse architecture, partying like it’s 1989. They’re used to doing things a certain, specific way, to observing certain, specific customs...

ByVitaly Chernobyl

March 24, 2022

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By next year, Gartner Inc. projects that three quarters of all database deployments will have shifted to the cloud. Gartner’s report did not speak specifically to deployments of the data warehouse ...

ByVitaly Chernobyl

March 17, 2022

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If you want more, better, different analytic insights, you need more, better, different sources of data.  This is especially true of data science and machine learning (ML) engineering. Rather than ...

ByVitaly Chernobyl

March 10, 2022

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What if managing change were as simple as manipulating different types of logical abstractions? In software engineering, this is the conceit behind model-driven software development.  MDSD is not a...

ByAdministrator

March 6, 2022

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Let’s agree not to squabble over the term “artificial intelligence” (AI). Let’s just go ahead and stipulate that what most people mean by AI is not artificial general intelligence, or AGI, bu...

ByVitaly Chernobyl

February 17, 2022

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Imagine a business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform comparable in its way to Snowflake, the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) data warehousing specialist. A PaaS designed with the pluses and min...

ByVitaly Chernobyl

February 10, 2022

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Sometimes, the very idea of sales force automation (SFA) can seem like a contradiction in terms. Thirty years into the SFA revolution, a stubborn remnant of the sales process is still human-labor-i...

ByVitaly Chernobyl

February 10, 2022

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It’s easy for an enterprise that uses cloud services to feel as if it has been transported back in time. Back to the early 1980s, to be exact, when the concept of a central, time-variant repository...

ByStephen Swoyer

February 5, 2022

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If you grok relational databases, and, specifically, if you grok the difference between an RDBMS’s conceptual, logical, and physical data models, you grok the basics of model-driven development, or...

ByVitaly Chernobyl

January 24, 2022

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Do you ever get confused by all of the new terms and trends in tech, especially in data and analytics? For example, when you hear a term like “reverse ETL,” do you automatically think: “Um, LTE? Is...

ByVitaly Chernobyl

January 22, 2022

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As far as predictive modeling is concerned, you can do too much or too little. Believe it or not, most people try to do too much! Kathleen L. D. Maley, vice president of analytics production with E...

ByStephen Swoyer

January 20, 2022

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Got Apache Pulsar? It’s an open-source cloud-native messaging and stream-processing platform. If this sounds suspiciously similar to one or more separate Apache projects – Kafka, for example – it s...

ByVitaly Chernobyl

January 18, 2022

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The data catalog products of today are completely different beasts  Don’t think of the data catalog as “just” a technology, think of it as a lens: a panoramic aperture you can use to zoom in to get...

ByVitaly Chernobyl

January 15, 2022

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It’s about time to start treating it like one, anyway If you still approach data engineering as a disconnected series of one-off projects, you’re doing it wrong. Consciously or unconsciously, you’r...

ByVitaly Chernobyl

December 17, 2021

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Pity the modern sales manager: in a market teeming with software-as-a-service (SaaS) CRM solutions, she’s forced to make do with sales enablement and sales engagement services that have been design...

ByStephen Swoyer

December 10, 2021

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A guide for the perplexed As it evolves, the cloud data warehouse market will likely be shaped by some of the same forces that shaped both the market for early business intelligence (BI) tools and ...

ByAdministrator

December 8, 2021

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Listen Here Today organizations are prioritizing customer experience and employee experience initiatives because they are the key drivers of business growth and opportunity in today’s experience-dr...

ByStephen Swoyer

December 3, 2021

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In an interview earlier this year with DM Radio, a weekly radio show that focuses on data management, Teradata senior vice-president of marketing Chris Twogood argued that it is difficult to predic...

ByStephen Swoyer

December 3, 2021

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The use of third-party or “alternative” data in analytics is not a new thing. There’s a sense, however, in which it is a newly feasible thing.  Today, more alternative data than ever before is bein...

ByStephen Swoyer

November 16, 2021

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R.I.P. – the data warehouse. You had a good run, from your origins in the 1980s to your obsolescence in the second decade of the new millennium. Like all products of human ingenuity, you addressed ...

ByVitaly Chernobyl

November 4, 2021

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What can you do with sensor data? Real-time, event-driven process automation, you say? Sign me up! But what do you actually need to be able to do this on the tech side? This is the question a lot o...

ByStephen Swoyer

October 11, 2021

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Old-guard data warehousing stalwarts tend to react viscerally when the subject of the data lakehouse comes up. Watch them closely and you’ll see their brows knit sternly and their neck muscles begi...

ByVitaly Chernobyl

October 4, 2021

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To explain insanity, Albert Einstein used the example of a person who keeps making the same mistake over and over again – yet each time expects a different outcome. Implicit in this is the anti-str...

ByStephen Swoyer

September 23, 2021

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Confidentially, many chief data officers will admit that their companies suffer from what might euphemistically be called “data dyspepsia:” they produce and ingest so much data that the...

ByStephen Swoyer

September 2, 2021

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Time-series data is inherently statistical. Each of the individual records of a time-series is indexed to a specific point in time. The “series” is the behavior that these records, in t...

ByStephen Swoyer

September 2, 2021

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Sure, you trust your machine learning (ML) solutions, but do your customers? Do regulators? Courts of law? How does an ML-based solution inspire trust? Easy, says AI explainability (XAI) specialist...

ByWilliam McKnight

August 26, 2021

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I was honored to co-present “Intelligent Ingest for a Modern Data Architecture” on the Briefing Room last week with Matthew Halliday, EVP of Product for Incorta, and host Eric Kavanaugh. Companies ...

ByStephen Swoyer

August 22, 2021

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The use of alternative or third-party data in analytics is not a new thing. Thanks to a slew of technological, economic, and social transformations, however, it is a newly feasible thing.  Today, m...

ByStephen Swoyer

August 2, 2021

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Imagine a business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform comparable in its way to Snowflake, the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) data warehousing specialist. A PaaS designed with the pluses and min...

Byrobin-bloor

June 22, 2021

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Computers run software that processes data. It sounds deceptively simple, but everyone knows it is not. You don’t need a Ph.D. in computer science to figure that out—a little bit of googling will g...

ByStephen Swoyer

June 7, 2021

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We live – and thrive – in an era of API-ification. We expose APIs willy-nilly for all sorts of purposes, not all of which are especially well thought out. Nor are we as forward-thinking as we shoul...

ByStephen Swoyer

May 11, 2021

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How does one transform an analytics practice to take advantage of radically new tools, practices, and techniques, such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineering? This wa...

ByStephen Swoyer

May 6, 2021

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With the industry on the cusp of what proponents describe as a revolution in real-time analytics, businesses must balance known risks against potential rewards as they assess the benefits of techno...

ByStephen Swoyer

May 4, 2021

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If you think about it, we should probably fetishize the role of data in relation to machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineering – or, for that matter, analytics of any type. ...

ByStephen Swoyer

April 27, 2021

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Streaming: Easy as E-S-B? Twenty years ago, system or software architectures that were capable of supporting analytics in real-time against fresh data tended to be prohibitively expensive.[i] Today...

ByStephen Swoyer

April 27, 2021

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Too many vendors treat the term “cloud native” as little more than a marketing tool. Data warehousing specialist Yellowbrick Data is a notable exception to this trend. At the very least, Yellowbric...

ByEric Kavanagh

April 27, 2021

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Follow the money! That’s a foundational mantra for journalism. Want to know what the story is? Pay attention to who got paid, and for what. Similarly, in the business world, revenue streams d...

ByInside Analysis

March 4, 2021

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by Stephen Swoyer The premise of the data warehouse in the cloud is hard to resist. For one thing, it promises to reduce (or to eliminate) the costs associated with acquiring, operating, upgrading,...

ByInside Analysis

February 27, 2021

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Click Here to Listen! Who *doesn’t* use analytics these days? Practically every organization leverages some sort of analytical capability, whether through a traditional Business Intelligence ...

ByInside Analysis

February 20, 2021

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Broadcast Date: Monday, Feb.22 @ 3ET Click Here to Listen, Distributed computing continues to reshape what’s possible in enterprise computing. Google’s Kubernetes stole a march on Docker a wh...

ByInside Analysis

February 16, 2021

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Click Here to Listen! The vision of Data Science cannot be accomplished in piecemeal fashion. You need a program to succeed. Ideally, you work from a platform that was designed for the express purp...

ByInside Analysis

February 14, 2021

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by Stephen Swoyer The premise of the data warehouse in the cloud is hard to resist. For one thing, it promises to reduce (or to eliminate) the costs associated with acquiring, operating, upgrading,...

ByInside Analysis

February 7, 2021

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by Robin Bloor There has always been a pressing need for BI. Even back in the day when all it delivered was reams of reports and a pie chart or two; people called it Decision Support. It was sensib...

ByInside Analysis

February 7, 2021

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Broadcast Date: Monday, Feb.8 @ 3ET Click Here to Listen! Is privacy really dead? Some would say yes, but others argue the battle isn’t lost just yet! The big question is: How can you protect...

ByInside Analysis

January 29, 2021

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Broadcast Date: Monday, Feb.1 @ 3ET Click Here to Listen! What’s the cornerstone of the Information Economy? Trust! And there’s a reason why the verb oft associated with that concept is “earned.” B...

ByInside Analysis

January 25, 2021

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My, how things have changed! Despite all those rumors of the data center’s demise, the innovation wheel keeps on turning. Many data center technologists are gearing up for their new role in a...

ByInside Analysis

January 18, 2021

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Click Here to Listen! It sounds so cool, and apparently, everyone’s doing it. But what, exactly, is data science? And how can your organization take advantage of this promising discipline? Ch...

ByInside Analysis

January 11, 2021

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Broadcast Date: Monday, Jan. 11 @ 3ET Click here to listen! Who are you, really? Are you authorized to be here, to take that action? Is this a machine, or a person? Knowing who’s who on the Interwe...

ByInside Analysis

December 11, 2020

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Broadcast Date: Monday, Dec. 14 @ 3ET Click here to listen! In today’s digital economy, companies are generating more data in a year than they did in all of the previous decade.  Cloud co...

ByEric Kavanagh

June 27, 2020

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by Geoff Webb, Vice President Strategy at PROS She has a brain five times the size of yours, can make a noise so loud it would deafen a normal human, and she’s set to teach us all a lesson about ru...

ByEric Kavanagh

May 11, 2020

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Click Here to Listen! Buyers make the business world go ’round. They’re the ones who channel money this way and that, helping sellers survive or thrive, even in a market like today’s. But business-...

ByInside Analysis

August 12, 2019

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Meet us in DC! Save 10% with coupon code BLOOR10 DG Vision is the first of DATAVERSITY’s Data Governance conferences to be located in Washington, D.C. As with all of their educational programs, the...

ByInside Analysis

August 12, 2019

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Join us and save 10% with code BLOOR10 Don’t miss the opportunity to attend two events for the price of one! This fall, DATAVERSITY will be hosting two co-located educational conferences in Chicago...

ByInside Analysis

July 23, 2019

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Missed Oscon 2019?! We are ready to share the most important topics of the conference. Take a minute to listen to these informative and exciting quick interviews with representatives of the leading...