We often recommend ELT solutions like Matillion and FiveTran to our customers as powerful tools for moving data into their warehouse from lots of sources and being able to transform that data to find useful insights. These tools have worked well with BI use cases for customers that are willing to invest in data engineering …
Chartio is a cloud-based visualization tool for building charts and interactive dashboards. If you’ve used it before you know it’s a powerful tool with a drag-and-drop interactive mode as well as a SQL mode for making visualizations. If you’ve built dashboards in Chartio before you may have felt like you were repeating your SQL logic …
There’s been a lot of action and consolidation in the data analytics space recently (Looker to Google and Tableau to Salesforce to name a couple major ones). But there’s also been a ton of action in the open source space, and we think everyone should be taking notice and celebrating the progress. We certainly are. …
Are you considering an all-in-one data analytics solution like Domo? A word of caution: you can move your data into these platforms but can you get it out? Data is the currency that powers your business and, in many cases, is the lifeblood for making money and selling products. Meanwhile, being able to visualize your …
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For decades, the conventional wisdom has been that you use ETL to move data between your database and your data warehouse. ETL stands for Extract, Transform, Load…in that order! But here’s why it should be ELT.