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Ep 59 | The Secret to Creating the Cloud-Like Experience Anywhere with Adam Skotnicky

Data complexity is the enemy of innovation. Adam Skotnicky, VP of Engineering at Cloudera and founder of Taikun (acquired by Cloudera), joins host Paul Muller to explain how engineering teams can reclaim simplicity without sacrificing flexibility or control. Together they unpack why most teams are overwhelmed by tooling and operational overhead, how platform engineering can abstract complexity away from users, and what it really means to deliver “cloud-like” agility across hybrid environments.

Stop Checking Clients One-by-One: Multi-Account Analysis with AI

Imagine managing multiple clients and instantly answering "Who has the lowest cost per conversion?" without opening a single spreadsheet. We're going to show you how to use Databox MCP to query multiple client accounts simultaneously and run an instant performance benchmark to compare ad spend and conversion rates side-by-side. About this series: This video is part of our "Chat with Your Data" series, where we explore the Databox MCP.

We Are Databox Playmakers

Culture is never something you fully design upfront. You can define values, write principles, and document behaviors, but real culture is shaped over time by people, decisions, and moments when things are not easy. At Databox, one word has followed us for years and somehow captured all of that better than anything else: playmakers. In our early days, one of our marketing leaders, John Bonini, used this phrase to describe who we are. At the time, we did not fully realize how accurate it was.

The Multi-Entity CFO's Financial Intelligence Guide

Your finance team wastes 14 days every month on manual consolidation. Your close stretches to 15-25 days. And you're one key person departing from chaos. The brutal math: Your "free" Excel process actually costs $850K+ annually in wasted time, errors, and missed opportunities. Meanwhile, leading multi-entity CFOs just cut their close time by 80% and freed their teams for strategic work instead of reconciliation hell.

Data and Analytics Trends for 2026

Another year has flown by at breakneck speed. In the data and analytics space, the past year has seen an AI gold rush where BI and analytics solutions raced to offer AI-powered insights to best meet end users’ rising expectations. But despite AI being named the most important trend of the next five years in an insightsoftware survey, it isn’t an exact science as organizations contend with AI projects that fail to launch and the risk of AI hallucinations.

Focal Systems: Boosting Store Performance with an AI Retail Operating System and Real-Time Data

Every second a product sits out-of-stock on a shelf, revenue quietly drains away. Customers walk out empty-handed, and businesses lose customers as well as valuable insights into what’s actually happening on the floor. At Focal Systems, we have built Shelf AI, a system that continuously “sees” store shelves, detects stockouts, and guides teams to replenish in time—so products are on the shelf when customers need them.

How to build a data agent with BigQuery and CloudSQL

Discover how to build a powerful data agent using ADK, BigQuery and CloudSQL. This video guides you through transforming unstructured data into structured knowledge, enabling intelligent applications. Watch along and learn how to create RAG pipelines, leverage Gemini for vector embeddings, and automate processes with Dataflow to achieve nuanced, context aware insights. Chapters: Speaker: Debi Cabrera Products Mentioned: BigQuery, CloudSQL, Agentverse, Gemini, Agent Development Kit.