Photo by Victoriano Izquierdo on Unsplash Companies that are serious about using raw data for business intelligence need some way to centralize and control that data. Many of them are using specialized vendor products to do so. Fivetran is one choice for getting all of that data wherever it resides and centralizing it in an…
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Photo by Nana Smirnova on Unsplash There is a lot of discussion on how you should implement your data stacks today. Should you bundle or unbundle, should you use a traditional data warehouse, lakes, lake houses, or mesh? Or a hybrid of all of them? With all these different ways you can put together your…
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Scaling data talent is hard. It’s hard to hire. Hard to grow and just overall hard in terms of managing processes and output. But there are brilliant leaders and managers doing it everyday. I recently interviewed Veronica Zhai, the principal product manager at Fivetran. She has led Fivetran’s analytical team for nearly the last year…
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Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash 2021 is almost halfway over and it seems like hundreds of millions of dollars has gone into investing in data, data start-ups and machine learning. In particular funding has also shifted heavily from just focusing on the data science and machine learning space to the data engineering and data management…
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Photo by Green Chameleon on Unsplash All signs point towards an auspicious future for data engineering. Dice’s 2020 tech jobs report cites Data Engineering as the fastest growing job in 2020. Increasing by a staggering 50%, while Data Science roles only increased by 10%. You can rest assured that the influx of data engineering will not regress anytime soon.…
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Photo by Fabio Sasso on Unsplash In the business world, cloud technology has become more and more dominant in recent years. Right now, research shows that about 50% of all business data is stored in the cloud, which just demonstrates the importance of external data sources and their place in the modern business environment. In…
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The CTO’s Focus Of The Week The focus for this week is streaming data solutions and analytics. Streaming data is far from new. Kafka and other solutions have existed well over a decade. However, most of these were often very complex to implement and weren’t always approachable. With that in mind, several companies have tried…
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Photo by Kaleidico on Unsplash Integrating data into strategy is proving to be a differentiator for businesses of all sizes. The cliche term “Data-Driven” is for more than just a billion-dollar tech company. Companies like DiscoverOrg and MVF are using data to help drive their decisions and create better products. Even smaller companies are finding…
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When it comes to finding the right CRM, ERP, or Coach Bus Management System the question often is, buy or build. For a long time, but has been one of the better options. This is why companies like Salesforce and Workday rose so quickly in popularity. However, there are other options now besides these two…
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.Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash As 2020 has comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on all the changes in technology as well as look to see where things are going. Whether you are looking at start-ups and their IPOs, improvements in technology or you paid attention to Amazon Re:Invent.…
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