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Tableau is on a mission to help people see and understand data and has announced new advanced analytics and automated insights features including AI-powered data stories that bring clarity and meaning out of numbers. It’s a feature sure to bring high impact and transformation to organisations of all sizes enabling them to interpret and act on data faster than ever.

Dell Technologies has made multiple storage-related announcements, including services to help organisations recover from ransomware attacks, and allowing them to use on-premises data with cloud-based SaaS.

GUEST RESEARCH: Only 6% of businesses globally use, access, and share data and data services in a way that grants them all the business benefits provided by a robust data strategy, according to new research from Snowflake, the data cloud company. The study of 1,000 business leaders and technology managers highlights the significant hurdles that the majority of organisations face in participating fully in the data economy.

Data cloud specialist Snowflake's extended relationship with Amazon Web Services is aimed at improving demand forecasting and delivery for the retail and consumer packaged goods industries.

Data cloud specialist Snowflake has launched its Retail Data Cloud, which combines the company's data platform, packaged systems from Snowflake and its partners, and industry-specific datasets, with the aim of helping retailers, manufacturers, distributors, consumer packaged goods vendors, and industry technology providers to collaborate, provide better customer experiences, and optimise operations.

Data cloud specialist Snowflake has launched its Healthcare & Life Sciences Data Cloud, said to be a single, integrated, and cross-cloud data platform that eliminates technical and institutional data silos.

GUEST OPINION: Data pipelines are the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. Efficient data pipelines can be the difference between an architecture that delivers real value to the business or one that becomes a burden. Enterprises receive data 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from the web, enterprise applications, and mobile and IoT devices. Data engineers must collect, transform, and deliver data to different lines of business, while keeping up with the latest technology innovations to stay ahead of business demands. However, traditional legacy architectures create challenges every step of the way, making the task of the data engineer more complex.

The cloud data platform, Snowflake, is to extend its capabilities to include easy, rapid, scriptable web-based app development features with its intention to acquire Streamlit, an open-source Python based app development toolkit.

COMPANY NEWS: Kicking off the new year, ActiveCampaign, the leader in customer experience automation, celebrates the addition of several new Growth Accelerator apps, which promise to help customers better automate events, surveys, data storage, direct mail, and more.

Tony Nicol founded Servian in 2008 and after selling to Cognizant is now embarking on his new venture, Vivanti, which launched today in the USA. Nicol’s goal is to reimagine cloud consultancy in the States, specialising in the latest tech and introducing a new standard of professional governance.

Data cloud specialist Snowflake has used its Snowday event to make several announcements, including the debut of native Python support and a variety of enhancements to other products and services.

COMPANY NEWS: Talend, a global leader in data integration and data integrity, today announced its Fall ’21 release. Providing new service, product, and packaging innovations, Talend applies data health concepts across its platform to help everyone from business leaders to data professionals realise value from their data quickly. Talend’s latest release introduces its first solution delivered *-as-a-service, new product capabilities to accelerate data professional productivity, and an industry-first packaging option that supports unlimited rows and unlimited users to provide unmatched, predictable pricing and greater control of data costs.

COMPANY NEWS: Snowflake, the data cloud company, today announced the winners of the annual Data Drivers Awards for Asia Pacific, the premier data awards that honour Snowflake customers leading their organisations and transforming their industries with the data cloud.

COMPANY NEWS: Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, today announced the launch of the Media Data Cloud, which unites Snowflake's powerful data sharing technology; cutting-edge standards of privacy and governance; Snowflake- and partner-delivered solutions, and industry-specific datasets. The Media Data Cloud enables marketers, publishers and data and ad technology businesses to unlock their data for identity, insights, activation and measurement across the advertising ecosystem.

COMPANY NEWS: Hazelcast, the real-time intelligent applications platform, today is announcing that the Hazelcast Platform is generally available and marks a milestone for real-time applications and analytics. With the Hazelcast Platform, enterprises can utilise a single platform for transactional, operational and analytical workloads. The Hazelcast Platform combines the capabilities of a real-time stream processing engine with in-memory computing to deliver a simplified architecture that is highly performant, scalable and reliable.

Loyalty program Flybuys has built a new Snowflake-based platform for sharing data between participating retailers.

COMPANY NEWS: Snowflake, the data cloud company, today announced the Financial Services Data Cloud, which unites Snowflake’s industry-tailored platform governance capabilities, Snowflake- and partner-delivered solutions, and industry-critical datasets, to help financial services organisations revolutionise how they use data to drive business growth and deliver better customer experiences.

Data cloud company Snowflake has successfully completed an assessment by KPMG on the 14 Key Cloud Controls that are part of the EDM Council's Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) framework.

GUEST OPINION by Rishu Saxena, Data Platform Architect, Field CTO Office, Snowflake:  Shifting from on-premise IT infrastructures to cloud-based resources has changed the game in the world of data science. Analytics teams now have access to a massive amount of elastic computing power and numerous sources of internal and external data.

Merchant payment platform provider mx51 has adopted the Snowflake data platform to support its analytics and customer service activities.