Mark Fleming on Reaching Data Nirvana Through Centralization and Improved Access
With more and more companies making the transition to the data economy, themes of quality, governance, and technological ROI take center stage. Mark Fleming (SVP of Sales, Americas Enterprise at Snowflake) discusses the nirvana achievement of centralized data to create meaningful outcomes, the power of communication and storytelling across internal teams to bolster collaboration and […]
Salesforce Data Cloud Launches: Here’s What it Means
Salesforce has a reputation for putting the customer experience at the forefront of their innovation efforts — and Dreamforce is the ecosystem’s launchpad where Salesforce products take flight. In true pre-Dreamforce fashion, Salesforce and Snowflake announced the expansion of their partnership, now enabling customers with the ability to securely share data in real time between […]
Maximize the Value of Your Data with Tableau and Snowflake
As we evolve in a world where data is the most valuable and fastest growing resource a business can have, it can be difficult and overwhelming for organizations to prioritize and structure data in a way that can drive predictability and inform strategy for the business. Timing is crucial to decision making as industries experience […]
Whitepaper: Data Agility Unlocked: The Data Strategy You Need to Succeed
WHITEPAPER Data Agility Unlocked: The Data Strategy You Need to Succeed Businesses have started to streamline data operations and replace legacy on-premise data lakes and warehouses with systems like Snowflake, a Data Cloud that doesn’t require years of planning to scale. But in order to take advantage of this progress, the concept of data agility […]
How to Keep Data Debt From Reducing the Value of a Data-Driven Organization
In 2017, the Economist published a report titled “The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.” This led many experts within industry to call for companies to become “data-driven organizations”. A data-driven organization is a company that not only focuses on collecting raw data, but also understands that to be truly data-driven, […]
Why Modernize Your Organizational Structure for Modern Data Infrastructure Now
In a previous blog post, I talked about the importance of data agility in an organization. As mentioned in that post, data agility is defined by TDWI as: “how fast can you extract value from your mountains of data and how quickly can you translate that information into action?” For business, the translation is about […]