SaaS in 60 - KPI background Color (other KPI improvements)

This week we introduce a simple style improvement to the KPI chart object. KPI charts provide simple summarized views of your data that help track the performance of your metrics – better known as Key Performance Indicators. In case you missed it - a number of styling improvements have been implemented over time such as responsive behavior, a large library of conditional symbol icons, custom color schemes and alignment options.

Speed up your Teradata migration with the BigQuery Permission Mapper tool

During a Teradata migration to BigQuery, one complex and time consuming process is migrating Teradata users and their permissions to the respective ones in GCP. This mapping process requires admin and security teams to manually analyze, compare, and match hundreds to thousands of Teradata user permissions to BigQuery IAM permissions. We already described this manual process for some common data access patterns in our earlier blog post.

Transformative Budgeting and Planning: Five Factors to Consider

Budgeting is one of those essential processes in which every business must engage. It’s critical to have a meaningful financial plan in place, to have realistic targets to achieve. Unfortunately, traditional models for financial planning and budgeting are increasingly strained as businesses strive to cope with change. Many are seeking leaner, more agile budgeting and planning options.

8 Benefits of Setting Up a Data Warehouse in AWS Redshift

AWS Redshift is a managed data warehouse solution from Amazon Web Services. It’s part of their popular cloud-based computing platform and used by many familiar enterprises, such as Lyft and McDonald’s. Data warehouses are storage and analytical solutions for large amounts of data. They take data gained via ETL or ELT services like Integrate.io or AWS Glue and turn it into useful information and datasets that businesses can analyze and utilize for strategic insights.

Piano Brings Advanced Analytics to Customer-Centric Organizations with Snowflake

Piano is a leading provider of software and services that help organizations better understand their audiences across digital channels. With these insights in hand, Piano customers can intelligently serve audiences with personalized experiences that keep them engaged and drive revenue, all through a single unified platform.

Thinking beyond the Data Warehouse, Data Lake and Data Lakehouse

The Data Warehouse is the heart of any Modern Data Stack. Organization-wide data is essential in order to create a single source of truth. The question here is whether you should build a data warehouse, data lake, or a data lakehouse. Join this session to explore the options that are available and how you can evaluate multiple vendors for your use case.

Top three requirements for self-service analytics according to Harvard Business Review

Being data-driven is no longer optional. With increased digital dexterity among customers and fast-changing market conditions and disruptions, organizations have entered the defining decade of data. This new era is characterized in part by the need to put live data directly into the hands of frontline decision-makers with self-service analytics.

To user-friendly SQL with love from BigQuery

Thirty five years ago, SQL-86, the first SQL standard, came into our world, published as an ANSI standard in 1986 and adopted by the International Standards Organization (ISO) in 1987. On this Valentine’s Day, we, in BigQuery, reaffirm our love and commitment to user-friendly SQL through a whole slew of new SQL features that we’re pleased to share with you, our beloved BigQuery users.