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Google Revs Cloud Databases, Adds More GenAI to the Mix
Google Cloud has been stuck in third place among the cloud bigs for years, but it’s banking on a slew of database and AI enhancements unveiled at its Next Tokyo ‘24 conference today to help differentiate its offering Read more…
Google Cloud Bolsters Data, Analytics, and AI Offerings
Today at its Data Cloud & AI Summit, Google Cloud unleashed a series of enhancements designed to bolster various database, analytics, and AI and machine learning offerings, including its BigQuery data warehouse, Look Read more…
Business Intelligence Platform Omni Launches with $27M
Business intelligence platform Omni publicly launched today with $26.9 million in total funding. The company believes users shouldn’t have to choose between a governed model and a fast business intelligence tool, and i Read more…
The Data Nerds Have Won
The data is in and the results are clear: The data nerds have won. That's the consensus emerging from Looker's user conference in San Francisco this week, where hundreds of data professionals congregated to extend their Read more…
Beyond BI: Looker Seeks Bigger Role for Data
Looker is best known as a business intelligence platform, which it definitely is. But with today's release of Looker 7, the company is making a strong case that it's much more than that. In fact, here at its user confere Read more…
Data Warehousing with a Modern Twist
Bill Inmon is generally credited with inventing the phrase "data warehouse" in the early 1990s to describe the stockpiling of data using relational databases. It may be an older term, but the activity itself remains quit Read more…
Looker Spies Next Step In Data-Based Evolution
Every company evolves, and some evolve faster than others, which appears to be the case with Looker. At its JOIN 2018 conference here in San Francisco, Looker's next step seems tantalizingly close, just around the corner Read more…
How Disney Built a Pipeline for Streaming Analytics
The explosion of on-demand video content is having a huge impact on how we watch television. You can now binge watch an entire season's worth of Grey's Anatomy at one sitting, if that suits your fancy. For a media giant Read more…
Looker’s Audacious Moonshot to Outgrow Oracle
You may have considered Looker to be just another business intelligence tool. After all, that's the bucket analysts at Forrester and Gartner put the company in. But talk a bit with its founder, Lloyd Tabb, and you quickl Read more…
Looker Rolls New Google BigQuery Tools
Addressing the growing need to gain insights from ever-larger data sets, an analytical tool vendor specializing in Google's BigQuery database is releasing new platform components designed to expand availability and use o Read more…