The Silent Profit Killer: Why Overhead Costs Creep Up (And How to Stop Them)

It starts innocuously. Marketing signs up for a new analytics platform. IT renews that enterprise license even though only 40% of seats are used. HR adds another recruiter. Travel spending creeps back to pre-pandemic levels despite hybrid work. Then one day: SG&A as percentage of revenue climbed from 22% to 28% over three years. Your margins are compressed. The board is asking questions.

Performance at Scale: A Test Case for Snowflake Interactive Analytics on ThoughtSpot

Interactive analytics has a simple promise: answers should show up when people need them, not after the moment has passed. But when usage spikes, many teams end up paying twice: once in latency and again in compute. We recently published a blog introducing Snowflake Interactive Analytics and what it means for ThoughtSpot customers.

Cloud API Keys vs Resource-Specific API Keys in Confluent Cloud

As you build and manage data streams in Confluent Cloud, securing your interactions with its APIs is paramount. Confluent Cloud offers two types of API keys that manage authentication to the different APIs in Confluent Cloud: cloud API keys and resource-specific API keys. Each has its own distinct characteristics and use cases.

International Data Privacy Day: Why Data Residency and Sovereignty Will Become Even More Important in 2026

January 28th marks International Data Privacy Day, a day to raise awareness about the importance of privacy and promote best practices. Privacy has long been about maintaining control of your data, in particular where it goes, and who can see it, and what it’s used for. Two topics under this theme, data residency and data sovereignty, come up in almost every customer conversation at the moment. While closely aligned, there are key differences.

Overcoming Granularity Traps in ThoughtSpot with Flexible Aggregates

Stop falling into "Granularity Traps" and start mastering multi-level calculations. In this technical walkthrough, we explore how to leverage Flexible Group Aggregate functions to perform complex calculations across different levels of detail without losing your data’s integrity.

Spotter Meets Slack: From Conversation to Insight

Why does finding a data insight mean leaving the conversation? Most of your team’s best context is hidden in Slack threads—until now. With the new Spotter + Slack connector, we’re bringing the power of AI agents directly into your workflow. Make data a natural part of your team's daily conversation. Data to Decisions, Powered by Agents.

Efficiently Transferring Ownership of Metadata and Data Objects with ThoughtSpot

Stop manual handovers and start automating your metadata management. In this technical guide, we explore how to use ThoughtSpot CS Tools to seamlessly transfer ownership of data objects—from Liveboards to data models—between users. Maintaining strict data governance is a challenge when team members change roles or exit an organization. Manually reassigning dozens of assets is prone to error and creates "orphan objects." By leveraging the ThoughtSpot CS Tools terminal, you can execute bulk ownership transfers that ensure 100% metadata retention while keeping your operations highly efficient.

Spotter 3: Your Smartest Analytical Partner Yet

Spotter 3 is our smartest agent yet. It acts as a true analytical partner that thinks, reasons, and validates its work—all automatically. It blends structured and unstructured data to go beyond traditional data sources, providing a complete picture of the business. With new skills, like Python coding and forecasting, Spotter 3 acts as your AI data scientist. Spotter 3 ensures every question leads naturally to confident, data-backed action.

How Businesses are Turning Data Strategy Into Business Momentum

In every industry, leaders are facing the same reality: mission critical applications and databases can’t run on yesterday’s infrastructure. When core systems slow down, the entire business feels the drag from customer experiences to employee productivity to innovation velocity, VSP One is the chosen solution for many wanting to turn data strategy into business momentum. Here’s how two organizations turned their mission critical applications and databases into engines of innovation.