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Former AWS engineers raise $3M to take on tech giants with ‘world’s fastest spreadsheet’

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Founded in 2021 by former engineers at Amazon Web Services, the company is targeting a wide range of customers that use Row Zero for business intelligence, finance, operations, marketing, and more. “They use us to give their business access to the data warehouse in an interface everyone knows how to use.”

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Seattle startup Downstream, which helps brands with their Amazon ads, acquired by Jungle Scout

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Connor Folley , an ex-Amazon marketing manager, and Salim Hamed , who worked in business intelligence engineering for Amazon Web Services, launched the company in late 2017. Revenue from Amazon’s third-party seller services spiked 57% in the holiday quarter to $27.3 Summit Partners led the funding round.

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Pentaho 5.3 Continues To Deliver On Big Data Analytics With Scale Including AWS Redshift and Impala

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From their press release: Pentaho to Deliver On Demand Big Data Analytics at Scale on Amazon Web Services and Cloudera. February 17, 2015 , STRATA + HADOOP WORLD 2015, SAN JOSE, Calif. Big Data CTO Amazon Web Services Hitachi Data Systems Pentaho Quentin Gallivan' Pentaho’s version 5.3

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How AI is helping the NFL improve player safety

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For example, in 2015 the league dramatically increased its data collection efforts by equipping all players with RFID sensors that pinpoint every player’s field position, speed, distance traveled, and acceleration in real-time.

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

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I’m not in the business of managing infrastructure,” says Kirkland, whose previous stints at GoDaddy and Intel helped build the technology acumen he parlays in a new type of industry he joined in 2015. “I I am in the business of hospitality.

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An inside look at Tableau: What’s the future of the ‘DataFam’ at Salesforce?

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Research firm Gartner, in its April 2023 “Magic Quadrant” report on analytics and business intelligence vendors, continued to rank Tableau as a leader in the category, with a “massive community of visual analytic developers,” but also cited customer concerns about the impact of the layoffs, and slow support times.

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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO Business Intelligence

Koch Industries began its migration to Amazon Web Services in 2015, when it also started on the first layer of its cloud networking strategy. Matt Hoag, CTO of business solutions, Koch Industries Koch Industries. It’s the kind of challenge few, if any, enterprises can take on without a partner today, analysts contend.

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