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Before You Embed Analytics: An Essentials Checklist

Are you planning to integrate embedded analytics into your business application? You have made the right decision. Embedding analytics directly into your software, rather than using a third-party, separated access application, gives you a wealth of benefits. For example, it helps you to get maximum value from data, brings analytics deeper into standard workflows, and significant competitive advantage. Your software has in-built capabilities others don't.

Previewing the power of BigQuery Remote Functions for drive time optimization

BigQuery's Remote Functions (in preview) make it possible to apply custom cloud functions to your warehouse without moving data or managing compute. This flexibility unlocks many use cases including data enrichment. In this post we demonstrate a pattern for combining BigQuery with the Google Maps API to add drive times to datasets containing origin and destination locations. This enrichment pattern is easily adapted for address geocoding or adding Google Map's place descriptions to locations.

Optimize Your AWS Data Lake with Data Enrichment and Smart Pipelines

As an engaged member of the AWS community, we’re always on the lookout for new technologies and software tools that can help our customers succeed in their AWS data lake initiatives. During the most recent AWS Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, we had the opportunity to engage directly with AWS partners, customers, and other technology companies operating in the AWS ecosystem.

3 practical examples of data-driven eCommerce

Ignorance is bliss. But not so much if it’s costing you money, right? If you are running an eCommerce business and are still not leveraging data to make data-informed decisions, you are missing out on crucial insights that can maximize your sales and minimize costs. One of the common misconceptions is that becoming a more data-driven company is complicated, difficult, and will cost a lot of money. This can be true, but there is also a better way.

Software.com Helps Improve Developer Productivity

More than 300,000 software developers and organizations around the world have adopted Software.com’s DevOps Metrics Platform to improve their development processes and make individual developers more productive while making their work days more enjoyable. In this episode of “Powered by Snowflake,” Mason McLead, CTO at Software.com, chats with Snowflake’s Daniel Myers about how the platform works and the critical role that Snowflake plays in making it all possible.

Types Of Reports in Business (And What Each Is Best For)

The reasons for writing reports in business are pretty compelling. Without them, you can’t have a complete overview of any past periods to evaluate your performance, fix mistakes, and replicate strategies that helped you achieve your goals. Moreover, you get to plan for the future and create an actionable plan based on the data you collected and presented in a report.