The fastest way to answer a business question used to be expensive: an analyst on staff, a clean warehouse, a dashboard for every recurring ask. Then AI tools made the fast answer free for everyone. The analytics line item, oddly, did not shrink. Speed became free. Defensibility became the line item.

It’s no secret that businesses everywhere are striving to use AI to automate time-consuming or repetitive tasks. By far one of the most time-consuming tasks business people face is reporting. Whether due to custom exports draining developer time, BI tools that can’t handle document output, or driver maintenance wasting time and focus, reporting can be draining to an organization’s most valuable resources.

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 4.3. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post will highlight some of the more prominent ones. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes. With 25 KIPs and over 600 commits since 4.2.0, this release introduces many new features, improvements and bug fixes to all the components. See the Upgrading to 4.3 section in the documentation for the list of notable changes and detailed upgrade steps.

See how Fivetran, dbt, and Google Cloud create the fresh, traceable, and well-governed data foundation AI agents need to deliver reliable business insights.

From dbt Core v2.0 to AI-powered connectors, Fivetran and dbt unveil joint product innovations that help data teams build open, scalable, AI-ready infrastructure.

For years, enterprise infrastructure treated security, storage, networking, and compute as mostly separate operational layers. Disruptive technologies tend to blur those lines. We saw this with backup and recovery, virtualization, and now with AI.

It's the day before your POC, and the embedded analytics demo still looks like it belongs to someone else. Your designer handed over a brand guide last week. Your developer has been buried in CSS variables ever since: cross-referencing token names, mapping changes across components, reloading the page after every tweak to see what broke. The UI is almost right. The nav color is close. The typography still isn't matching, but there's no time left.

Learn how to use Connected Sheets to analyze governed BigQuery data warehouse from a familiar Google Sheets interface.