Recently, the workforce has undergone a series of transitions. COVID-19 has forced companies to quickly adopt a digital transformation within their organizations and people workforce. Even in industries that formerly prohibited working remotely, working from the comfort of ones home seemingly became the norm overnight. With the release of the COVID-19 vaccine, many companies adopted… Read More

Access to data and real-time analytics are incredibly vital to any business. There are important decisions to be made, process improvements that can be achieved, supply chain notifications that are needed for immediate business choices, as well as other insights and information used to create or drive data-led decisions. With the data landscape changing over… Read More

The rise in demand for accurate, verifiable, and up-to-the-second data, has put a massive amount of pressure on companies’ existing data warehouse architecture. Many companies are struggling with large sets of data, what to do with it, and how to make sense of it all. These companies built out a large, robust data lake, but… Read More

As organizations expand their Snowflake footprint, there comes a time to pose questions like ‘Are there opportunities to save on costs?’ or ‘Is our environment running efficiently?’ Fortunately, this is where Snowflake shines with several levers to pull to help maximize cost and performance. For those who are not familiar with Snowflake’s billing structure /… Read More

If a Business Intelligence (BI) dashboard is published without follow up strategy, future support, and continuing education… was it even published? Without implementing these important measures, organizations fall into the ever-present trap of weak dashboard utilization, which can lead to missed opportunity when driving business decisions and the fundamental success of measurable analytics. Within this… Read More

“Worldwide, people are already generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day.” – Forbes From local businesses to large enterprises, data is being produced at an explosive rate. Generating and capturing the information is easy; leveraging the data for business benefit is the struggle. We find that our clients grapple with keeping flexible data policies,… Read More

Have you ever been asked to share information with a client or customer, while having to support various cloud platforms? Can this be done efficiently, and most importantly, effectively? In our previous publication around how to effectively share data, Strive walked through a step by step guide in how to utilize the Snowflake Secure Data… Read More

Sharing is defined as “to use, occupy, or enjoy (something) jointly with another”. So, whether you’re a child sharing toys with a friend, or an organization looking into how to efficiently share secure data, effectively passing objects between others is a clear fact of life. Organizations across the globe are in a constant battle to… Read More

The word ‘Snowflake’ has been generating quite a buzz recently due to the cloud-based data platforms recent IPO. While garnering the much-deserved positive attention, Snowflake has climbed to top-of-mind for most data professionals and organizations in the Data & Analytics space. However, as many people in the business world know, the relationship between IT data… Read More

As part of our 3-part series, our next post provides guidance on how to build an Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML) capability for the first time. In case you missed our post last week, the first article covered three items required before beginning development on an AI/ML initiative. Moving forward, we’ll now focus on the… Read More