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How to strengthen your company's data literacy

Those who use data wisely have competitive advantages and more profits. As a result, companies are increasing their focus on improving their data literacy. For example, the importance of data has led companies like AppNexus1 and Chevron2 to conduct internal data science competitions to identify and hone analytical talent. But, as noted in the kickoff blog post to our series on data-driven organizations, merely having data does not ensure you have a useful interpretation of that data.

Engineering Industry Embracing Qlik's SaaS Analytics to Address Environmental and Sustainability Concerns

Working in the engineering field means navigating a variety of needs. Those range from meeting various local and national regulatory statutes, to measuring and monitoring delivery of essential outputs like drinking water and power supply, to understanding the data surrounding regional operations on both the supply and demand side. Organizations that serve this market operate behind the scenes, yet impact our daily life in the United States.

How BigQuery helps scale and automate insights for baseball fans

When looking at data, business decision makers are often blocked by an intermediate question of "What should I take away from this data?" Beyond putting together the numbers and building the results, data analysts and data scientists play a critical role in helping answer this question. Organizations big and small depend on data analysts and data scientists to help “translate from words to numbers, and then back to words” as sports analytics pioneer Dean Oliver once said.

Spring forward with BigQuery user-friendly SQL

Spring is here. Clocks move forward. The Sakura (cherry blossom) festival in Japan marks the celebration of the new season. In India, the holi festival of colors ushers in the new harvest season. It’s a time for renewal and new ways of doing things. This month, we are pleased to debut our newest set of SQL features in BigQuery to help our analysts and data engineers spring forward.

Leveraging ETL to Enable your Domain Driven Design

How much do you know about Domain-Driven Design (DDD)? It's a design approach to software development where the language and structure of software code match the business domain. The concept comes from a 2003 book by Eric Evans. And it influences software architects, information architects, data engineers, and computer science professionals who organize code and solve some seriously stressful software problems. Domain-Driven Design is a super-successful concept with brilliant business logic benefits.

Cloudera Data Platform extends Hybrid Cloud vision support by supporting Google Cloud

CDP Public Cloud is now available on Google Cloud. The addition of support for Google Cloud enables Cloudera to deliver on its promise to offer its enterprise data platform at a global scale. CDP Public Cloud is already available on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. With the addition of Google Cloud, we deliver on our vision of providing a hybrid and multi-cloud architecture to support our customer’s analytics needs regardless of deployment platform.