Data & Intelligence

My good friends Eric Sanner and Brandon Luhring wrote two excellent articles covering the past and the present in relation to AI. Their thought-provoking pieces reveal the current issues we grapple with and the invaluable lessons we can learn from our past experiences to better understand and shape the future of AI (1). In this […]

Regulated industries, such as financial and healthcare companies, often need to make hard choices when it comes to balancing innovation and compliance. Most technology companies are focused on cloud-first, if not entirely cloud-native, offerings, particularly in the search and data space. I was recently working with a large financial services company that wanted to consolidate […]

Integrating SAP and Databricks has typically required a lot of glue. Set up the SAP Data Hub environment, connect to the SAP data, set up a pipeline with Pipeline Modeler, configure the Streaming Analytics Service, setup Kafka or MQTT and receive the streaming data in Databricks with Spark Streaming. Most of these intermediate steps required […]

Regulations and Policies In November of 2022, the EPA released new regulations to combat the release of air pollutants such as methane, VOCs, and benzene by both existing and new oil and gas operations. Another decisive move in 2023 by EPA enacted new policies to crack down on water pollution from coal plants. In these […]

A New Generative AI Question Answering Capability for Enterprises  Coveo has introduced a new feature called “Coveo Relevance Generative Answering.” This feature will be initially available to customers with self-service use cases starting this summer, followed by other use cases in customer service, commerce, website, and workplace search. This new feature will use various Large […]

In Power BI, Top N and Bottom N are often displayed using a visual level filter and two visuals, respectively. As a result, we can only show one item at a time on top or bottom N. But, if the situation asks for slicer selection to be used to dynamically change how top and bottom […]

I’m back, with another blog on GPT and AI. I find these advancements so interesting and fun, and here I’ll share how I use them to maximize my productivity. If you’ve struggled to figure out how to use these new tools, or use them but want to see if there’s more, this blog is for […]

Real-time data processing is a critical need for modern-day businesses. It involves processing data as soon as it is generated to derive insights and take immediate actions. Databricks Streaming and Apache Flink are two popular stream processing frameworks that enable developers to build real-time data pipelines, applications and services at scale. In this article, we […]

Thought leaders build credibility and trust by creating content that showcases deep knowledge and unique perspectives. However, the writing process can be time-consuming and labor-intensive (and not all thought leaders are strong writers). That’s where AI writing assistants come in. With cutting-edge large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4, content creators can now streamline the process […]

The Era of Generative AI is Upon Us “The Age of AI has Begun” – states Bill Gates regarding the recent surge of AI tools and AI capability. If you have not read this article, it’s an extremely informative read and really we can’t disagree. We’ve already been seeing real innovation in generative AI, especially […]

Introduction In this blog, we will discuss Snowpipe, a very important feature of Snowflake. SnowPipe allows you to automatically load data as soon as files appear in a particular bucket. When new files are added to the bucket, they are automatically loaded into the specified table. This is especially important when it comes to transactional […]

Are you looking for a way to accelerate and scale your Event Driven Architecture in the cloud? GridGain is here to help. GridGain, built on top of Apache Ignite, is a comprehensive in-memory computing platform that provides distributed caching, messaging, and compute capabilities, with enterprise-grade support. With its performance capabilities, it can increase the overall […]