You know the drill: Sometime in mid-December, a tsunami of planning will crash into your company as teams frantically scramble to figure out their initiatives and KPIs for next year. And as they scramble, every single one of them will…
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Here at Panoply, we’re obsessed with making it easy to sync, store, and access your data. Today, we’re proud to announce that we’ve added yet another so-easy-it’s-incredible feature: a one-click integration with Trevor.io that makes code-free data analysis a reality.The…
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As today’s number one CRM platform, Salesforce provides support to a variety of business processes within companies. With that in mind, you can only imagine the huge amounts of data stored in Salesforce databases. Used properly, that data can significantly…
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MongoDB is fantastic…and challenging. This database is popular among developers due to its flexibility, but getting your data out of Mongo and into a BI tool isn’t a plug-and-play cakewalk. If you’re looking for a tool that can easily convert data…
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Experienced data scientists and developers are spoilt for choice when it comes to data analytics tools. But for those who don’t hail from a data-centric background, it can prove to be quite a challenge.Data operations platforms like Keboola are valuable…
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Data provides the foundation for innovation and enhanced efficiency. But anyone who’s worked with it will tell you that it can be quite challenging. Without the necessary expertise and the right tools at your fingertips, it’s sometimes difficult to derive…
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If you’re building a data warehouse, you need ETL to move data into that storage. To do that, you first extract data from an array of different sources. Then you apply transformations to get everything into a format you can…
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Finding the right ETL tool for your business is essential. ETL pulls data out of a source (extract), makes changes according to requirements (transform), and then pushes the transformed data into a database, data warehouse, or BI platform.From cost to maintenance,…
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SQL and pandas are both invaluable tools for any analyst or data scientist. They tend to be mentioned in the same breath when talking about data manipulation and analysis—and can do a lot of the same things—but they have pretty…
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We now generate more data in an hour than we did in an entire year just two decades ago. The same old tools simply don’t cut it anymore. That’s why Amazon came out recently with new tools like AQUA for…
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Five years ago, MongoDB detailed new enhancements that enabled it to work with standard relational reporting tools like Cognos, Tableau, and Business Objects. That’s great but it’s not perfect. As a result, a number of analytical tools continue to thrive,…
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“To buy or not to buy, that is the question.”Ok, comparing the construction of a company’s ETL pipeline with Hamlet’s binary choice on whether to stick around or just get some sleep is a touch dramatic. But let’s not minimize…
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