4 Years Ago, the GDPR Changed Everything. Now What?

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation is approaching its 4th year anniversary since it was implemented in May 2018. Since its inception, it has been hailed as a groundbreaking framework for making users’ rights on the Internet a human right. Its impact in many other markets has been undeniable and it truly has affected how the world of the Internet works, even outside EU borders.

A Window Into the Future of Data in Motion and What It Means for Businesses

Modern businesses have vast amounts of data at their fingertips and are acutely aware of how enterprise data strategies positively impact business outcomes. Despite this, only a handful of organisations interact with all stages of the data life cycle process to truly distill information that distinguishes future-ready businesses from the rest.

Pentaho 9.3 Suite Drives Modern Business Intelligence Across the Hybrid Cloud

Hitachi Vantara’s latest improvements to Pentaho make it significantly easier for organizations to move data workloads from on premises to the cloud and back again. The new Pentaho 9.3 Long-Term Support (LTS), part of Hitachi’s Lumada portfolio, offers a cloud deployment option that we anticipate will be a critical accelerant of data-driven transformation.

The Ultimate Guide to E-commerce Tech Stack

Our Five Key Points: When you start an e-commerce business, you know that you’ll need some top-level digital services to get your products and services online and in front of the right audience. Not every online store is as big as Amazon, but with effective tools, you can still make waves. How do you pick the right apps and SaaS or PaaS to make your online business as profitable as possible?

Monitor & analyze BigQuery performance using Information Schema

In the exponentially growing data warehousing space, it is very important to capture, process and analyze the metadata and metrics of the jobs/queries for the purposes of auditing, tracking, performance tuning, capacity planning, etc. Historically, on-premise (on-prem) legacy data warehouse solutions have mature methods of collecting and reporting performance insights via query log reports, workload repositories etc. However all of this comes with an overhead of cost-storage & cpu.