Cloud analytics stories
Connected coolers could help beverage brands cut emissions by up to 68% while replacing guesswork with real-world energy data.
Enterprises could cut manual work and outage risk as the deal links mainframe data flows more tightly to Snowflake and AWS analytics systems.
Most utilities in Australia and New Zealand are reusing data tools across at least two extra uses, helping justify earlier investments.
The new service could cut analytics costs for firms hit by egress fees and the need to run separate storage and query systems.
Users can now query OneLake data directly in Fabric as ClickHouse adds read and write support and lands on Microsoft Marketplace.
The update aims to cut AI costs and governance risks by reusing approved workflows and data inside tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot.
Customers can run AI workloads on OneLake data in place, reducing the need for ETL pipelines and duplicate copies across systems.
Lower ETL bills and broader open-table support may tempt data teams as AWS Glue 6.0 adds Iceberg v3 and new runtimes.
The award underscores how AgProcure's automation could speed contract checks and reporting for retailers handling large volumes of purchasing data.
The serverless catalog could ease a bottleneck for large Spark workloads by moving Hive table metadata without copying underlying data.
Enterprises will be able to move more sales, marketing and database data into BigQuery as Google adds connectors for SQL Server and Shopify.
Customers could see faster analytics and lower bills as BigQuery starts using past queries to tune itself and curb wasteful compute.
Looker users can now turn chat prompts into recurring monitors that flag threshold breaches and run automated root-cause analysis.
The preview could ease multi-region compliance headaches by letting organisations apply column-level security through global tags and regional policies.
Notebook users can now query local pandas data with SQL and pass results back to Python, reducing data shuffling in analytics workflows.
Construction teams can now link weather and environmental readings in one system, helping them cut delays and improve compliance on site.
Business teams can now act on live enterprise data without spreadsheets, as the platform ties AI analysis, applications and workflows together.
Enterprises can now query file-based data in Snowflake and Databricks without first moving petabytes into a lakehouse, cutting AI prep delays.
The overhaul gives retailers a clearer online-offline customer view while saving Specsavers more than two weeks of engineering time in Britain.
Poor data quality is forcing finance teams to seek more traceable inputs for AI and reporting as OneStream adds a Snowflake link.
