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Data Warehouse Design: A Complete 2026 Guide (with examples and templates)

Most data warehouse projects fail. Not because the technology is wrong. Because the design is. Three weeks for a number that should take three minutes. AI agents generating plausible reports nobody can trace. Two ERPs naming the same metric differently. The spreadsheet swamp. The fire drill before every audit. These problems live in the warehouse layer, in how data is modeled, governed, and made available to the people and AI agents that read from it.

ClearML Joins the Dell AI Ecosystem Program and Launches AI Factory Blueprints, Making It Easier for Enterprises to Operationalize AI

ClearML is deepening its partnership with Dell Technologies by joining the Dell AI Ecosystem Program, announced at Dell Technologies World 2026. As part of this collaboration, ClearML is launching two pre-validated deployment blueprints — for Kubernetes and OpenShift — available in the Dell Automation Platform catalog, giving enterprises a fast path from bare metal to a full AI stack.

Keynote: Building Intelligent Systems on Real-time Data

Confluent CEO Jay Kreps takes the stage alongside industry leaders at data streaming’s biggest event. Together, they’ll show why free-flowing, real-time data has become the key to unleashing the full potential of intelligent systems across every business. From live demos to real-world use cases to industry-changing product announcements, this year’s keynote is essential viewing for anyone looking to maximize the potential of their AI. Which is pretty much everyone. Don’t miss it.

AI Tools for Builders - Confluent's MCP Server & Agent Skills

Your AI coding assistant just learned to speak Confluent. Developers live in their editors. The best platform tools meet them there—and increasingly, that means their AI assistants meet them there too. AI coding tools are already reshaping how developers build, debug, and operate software, but most of them are generalists. They can write an Apache Kafka producer, but they won't know your Schema Registry subjects.

Agentic Fleet Management Architecture for Real-Time Operations

Agentic fleet management is a real-time, event-driven architecture where distributed AI agents continuously process streaming data to make autonomous operational decisions and execute them through closed-loop feedback systems. At its core, agentic systems enable: Unlike traditional systems that react to events after the fact, agentic architectures operate as adaptive, self-optimizing systems.

Why Enterprise Teams Are Doing xP&A Planning Directly in Their BI Tools

Most enterprise finance teams already have a BI platform they trust. Power BI and Qlik Sense power the dashboards that executives review every day. They’re where analysts spend their days, where the business goes to answer questions, and where the organization has invested years of development and governance work. So why, when it comes time to planing, forecasting, and budgeting, does everyone abandon that environment and disappear into a tangle of spreadsheets?