A visual guide to transformations: The Salesforce data model
Analysis-ready data models are built using sequences of transformations. Here's an example using Fivetran’s data model for Salesforce.
6 SAP companies driving business results with BigQuery
Digital technology promises transformative results. Yet, it’s not uncommon to encounter potholes and speed bumps along the way. One area that frequently trips up businesses is putting data into action. It can be extraordinarily difficult to take advantage of the right data at exactly the right time — in real time — to drive decision-making. For SAP customers wanting to maximize the value of their data, Google Cloud offers a number of capabilities.
Executing Data Integration on Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift says it executes data operations ten times faster than other enterprise data warehouses because of a hardware-accelerated cache called Advanced Query Accelerator (AQUAD). It also claims three times better price-performance than other similar technologies. Statements like these are what make Redshift an attractive option for companies that want to push data into a warehouse for analytics.
Of Muffins and Machine Learning Models
While it is a little dated, one amusing example that has been the source of countless internet memes is the famous, “is this a chihuahua or a muffin?” classification problem. Figure 01: Is this a chihuahua or a muffin? In this example, the Machine Learning (ML) model struggles to differentiate between a chihuahua and a muffin.
The Modern Data Stack Outlook for 2022
One of the key goals for data teams in 2022 is to drive business impact while reducing development and maintenance costs. Setting up or migrating to a modern data stack will be a key factor for data-driven businesses to achieve faster growth. Attend this session to take a look at the biggest data trends of 2022.
4 Things You Can Learn About Your Brand's Strength by Analyzing Direct Traffic in Google Analytics
From measuring brand awareness campaigns to customer loyalty, 30 marketers weigh in with what they learn analyzing direct traffic.
Can SQL be a library language?
The time has come for the open-source software revolution to reach SQL.
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.