There’s a unique, painful sound every Salesforce admin knows: the groan of frustration when someone pulls a report and realizes half the accounts are duplicates. Suddenly, nothing makes sense. Sales teams are confused. Customers get duplicate outreach. Leadership starts by questioning every dashboard. You know what’s happening. The sneaky, silent villain of CRM success has
As businesses diversify the systems they use to get work done, “data strategy” is a phrase thrown around a lot in the consulting industry. But what does it mean in today’s business context? While specialized technology exists to accomplish specific tasks, data strategy concepts encourage a systematic approach to building and maintaining data storage standards
dbt Labs deeply cares about its community, and I felt that at this year’s Coalesce Conference. It’s clear in how they recognize community members, continue to invest in dbt core, and host a delightful event. There was a diverse mix of geographies, roles, and backgrounds represented, all with a shared interest in dbt and how
With the explosion in data and analytics demand, organizations are reaching the limits of their existing data platforms. Even cloud-based platforms like Azure SQL, while an improvement over on-premises technologies, are unable to provide the scalability, performance, and elasticity needed to enable a modern analytics capability. To meet this challenge, data leaders are migrating to
After having a front row seat to hundreds of Atrium projects over the last five years that typically focused on the intersection of data, analytics, and CRM strategy, I started to see a trend emerging among our most successful customers. Those that understood the relative maturity of their data as well as the tooling they
Having access to reliable, up-to-date data is critical for all analytics and data science workloads. Data pipelines are an essential piece of this process, moving and transforming data in order to enable this access to reliable and clean data. Taking your data pipeline architecture to the next level with Snowpark There are many different methods
Salesforce customers generally choose the leading CRM platform because it streamlines their sales, marketing, and customer service processes with data analytics and insights. But to further enhance the capabilities of Salesforce (and specifically their Salesforce data), many Salesforce customers are also starting to leverage Snowflake Data Cloud as they move toward a more modern data
In today’s data-driven world, organizations have access to massive amounts of data that can provide valuable insights and drive informed decision-making. Embarking on a data or analytics project like implementing Salesforce Data Cloud can be an especially exciting endeavor for organizations. It holds the promise of unification, valuable insights, and informed decision-making that can be
With the ease and availability of analytics implementations with widespread and user-friendly tools, every organization is looking forward to leveraging data analytics and machine learning. Data collection has become easier than ever before, and while many focus on capturing and housing as much data as possible so they can leverage it for personalization, analytics, and
Welcome to another post in our ongoing Expert Insights series on data quality. This series serves to illuminate common data shortcomings and their consequences. For a general overview of data quality, be sure to check out the initial post in the series. This post concludes our last post on how data go missing. For our