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How to Connect Business Data to Claude (and Actually Get Accurate Answers)

You ask Claude what your MRR was last month. The answer comes back fast, formatted cleanly, stated with total confidence, and completely wrong. Not because Claude is broken, but because it was guessing. Claude has no live connection to your business data by default. It cannot query your CRM, pull from your ad platforms, or check your billing system. So when a marketing manager asks about their numbers, Claude either refuses or generates a plausible-sounding figure based on patterns in its training data.

Think Big: Inside the Hakkoda/IBM Snowflake Partnership

Ryan Tucker, CRO & Co-Founder of Hakodaa (now an IBM company), shares how their True Blue Snowflake partnership since 2021 drives data transformation and AI value with vertical expertise. He highlights customer wins including Cortex AI-powered sentiment analysis for a UK wealth manager and Snowflake Intelligence for retail executive reporting, and discusses how the IBM acquisition amplifies their Snowflake-specialized DNA with global reach.

Zero-Copy Mirroring in Qlik Open Lakehouse

There’s a moment in every data team’s journey when a bill arrives with unexpected costs. It might be an egress charge you didn’t see coming, a query cost that spiralled when usage spiked, or the quiet realization that migrating your data to a different platform would take months of work and a significant budget. If you’ve been there, you know what vendor lock-in really costs, and it’s not just dollars.

Building AI-Ready Data Foundation with James Serra

What does it really take to build AI-ready data systems people can trust? In this episode of Data Builders Club, James Serra shares lessons from 40+ years in data and AI, covering data quality, trust, Data Mesh trade-offs, real-time systems, and why strong foundations matter more than hype in the AI era. Featuring insights from James Serra, Data & AI Solution Architect at Microsoft and author of Deciphering Data Architectures.

Microsoft and Disclosure Management: A Smarter Way to Work

Finance teams don’t need another system to learn. They need their existing tools to work better. That’s the core idea behind Next Generation Disclosure Management from insightsoftware — insightsoftware’s narrative reporting solution that plugs directly into Microsoft Word and Excel, bringing live data, built-in controls, and a full audit trail into the environment your team already knows by heart. No new interfaces. No copy-paste marathons.