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Have you looked at community programmes as a career booster 🚀? Ana has just become part of the Snowflake Squad Ambassador Program. That's a recognition of her skills and the contributions she's made to the Snowflake community. If you regularly use specific tools and platforms, have you checked to see if there's a community programme associated with them? Most of the leading vendors run these programmes to recognise the outstanding contributions of their community members and the reward goes beyond virtual badges and titles. Community programmes can give your professional career a serious boost because they signal to the outside world that: • you have certain technical skills the market desires • you have regularly contributed content and solutions to the vendor community • you care about improving technology for the benefit of users and organisations Typically, these programmes also give you access to developers, previews and beta (or alpha) testing programmes that allow you to help shape a product. I was fortunate to be part of Tableau's Ambassador and Zen Master programme in the past and while it's hard to quantify the benefit in hard numbers, I am confident that it at least *doubled* my visibility. It also led to job offers, speaking engagements and other fascinating initiatives. If you work in data and/or technology, I highly recommend looking into these programmes so you understand what's required to become part of them and have your work formally recognised. If you're already part of a community like this - Tableau and Snowflake folks, I'm looking at you 🤓 - what's been your experience? Share in the comments below 👇🏼

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What's new with Databricks SQL, October 2024 Summary of launches from August through October 2024, including AI/BI, SQL editing, performance updates, and more... https://lnkd.in/eCMtbwNN

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Curious about life on Elastic's FP&A team? Check out this insightful video by PowerToFly featuring Mariel Mauss, Finance Director at Elastic, as she discusses the team's impactful work and the crucial role diversity plays in their success. Discover why Elastic might be your perfect career move in finance! https://gag.gl/XtDQoM

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During Tableau Pulse's pilot phase, its development team faced a unique challenge: Scale processing from 500 to 20,000 email digests per day while integrating AI/ML capabilities. Explore how they overcame those obstacles to provide real-time, AI-powered insights to customers:

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🔎 🏟 Predictive modeling results in more powerful messaging. Read how the University of Pittsburgh Athletic Department unified their data sources to gain a more complete picture of football fans in order to unlock data insights for every step of the fan journey: #AWS #AWSSports #Fan360 #data #analytics

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🏀 How Data is Revolutionizing Sports – A look into the WNBA's Indiana Fever's strategy with Databricks 🏀 Excited to share that I was recently quoted in this article on how the WNBA's Indiana Fever is leveraging Databricks’ lakehouse technology! Coming from a background in baseball analytics, it’s inspiring to see the lakehouse model drive such impactful transformation across other sports. This technology empowers teams with real-time, AI-powered insights from a variety of data sources, improving decision-making on and off the court. Take a look to see how the Fever is harnessing the power of data to make strategic plays: https://lnkd.in/gWyQgaYh #DataAnalytics #SportsAnalytics #Databricks #WNBA #DataDriven

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New in #TableauPulse: 1️⃣ Mobile Site Switcher Switch between multiple cloud sites on Tableau Mobile with a drop-down list. 2️⃣ Tableau Pulse in Microsoft Teams Share Tableau Pulse's AI-powered insights effortlessly without leaving Microsoft Teams. tabsoft.co/3Md3gWn

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Come on out to learn more from Plotly and others!

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Interested in learning more about Snowflake Arctic?! Snowflake will be hosting a Live Demo webinar tomorrow (5/16) at 1pm ET/10am PT on how to implement enterprise AI in financial services ❄️🚀 Link Here to Register: https://lnkd.in/egKxn4KS During this Live Demo webinar, attendees will learn: - The design considerations for building an enterprise AI strategy for financial services - How organizations should think about the current LLMs, including the recent launch of Snowflake Arctic and other third-party open-source models - The key financial services use cases that are ready for generative AI implementation - Where the generative AI landscape will evolve over the next couple of years #snowflake #snowflakearctic #generativeAI #LLM

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You can now set goals for your KPIs, and explore the contributing factors with Tableau Pulse with a standard Tableau Cloud account. Previously these were premium features. They sound like simple things but really drive adoption and help get business users curious about performance. The ‘You’re at 85% of target with 5 days left’ is easily digestible and prompts direct action, as well as opening up more discussions about the data. If you’ve not started using pulse yet then now’s a great time to start. More impressively it’s a great example of a company listening to customers. Last week at #DataFamEurope ‘True to the Core’ I asked Ryan Aytay and team to make this a standard feature as I was frustrated that I’d be losing it unless I upgraded. I suspect a fair few other customers had been asking too. Hat tip for this really welcome change Tim Ngwena

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Snowflake's Investor Day presentation this week was a great showcase of how CRO-CFO alignment is crucial in driving company strategy. The session had plenty of evidence of effective collaboration between the Sales and Finance teams. For example, Snowflake's FY2025 sales compensation redesign is directly tied to the company's strategic objectives to drive logo and consumption growth. This is impossible for a CRO or CFO to achieve alone; they have to do it together. My favorite piece of evidence of Snowflake's CRO-CFO alignment is the chart below (from last year's deck), which shows how sales productivity dictates new sales investment. Sales productivity is defined as (x) net new ACV in $ millions divided by (y) AE headcount at fiscal year-end. The 1.0x threshold metric means the company will only invest in new sales headcount when AEs on average close at least $1 million in net new ACV annually. In other words, as long as Finance sees the productivity, Sales will get more budget to hire more reps. This defines accountabilities and rules of engagement: The CFO proactively supports the CRO's evolving needs, and the CRO has clear expectations about driving efficient growth. This chart is easy to put on a slide, but achieving the level of alignment required for a common CRO-CFO definition of "sales productivity" is very difficult. Few companies succeed at this, but Snowflake shows it can be done. What makes Snowflake different? Here's a hint: The previous CEO used to call himself "Frank (Anti-Silo) Slootman" on his LinkedIn profile. That tells you everything you need to know. CRO-CFO alignment starts with the CEO (not with the tech stack). #CFO #CRO #CMO #CCO #RevOps #RevenueOperations #SalesOps #GTM #Finance #RevenuePlanning #RevenueForecasting #Marketing #Sales #Enterprise #SaaS #CustomerSuccess #SalesQuotas #SalesTerritories #SalesProcess #CapacityPlanning #SalesCompensation #Compensation #ResourceAllocation #VentureCapital #PrivateEquity #StrategicFinance #FPandA #Snowflake #InvestorDay #CapitalAllocation #SalesProductivity

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Success with generative AI in finance requires productive cross-functional conversations. Improve yours and learn other strategies for successful AI deployment: https://gtnr.it/3UGyTeD Gartner for Finance | #GartnerFinance #AI #CFO #GenerativeAI

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Last week, Max Cameron told me I look too much like a sales person when I wear a blazer and t-shirt. Gearing up for Snowflake's Data Cloud Summit this morning, I donned the blazer again, even though I know it'll scare people away since they often don't want to talk to sales folks. Why? If people are still willing to talk to me even though I look like a scary sales person, I can be more confident that ATLAS is solving a real problem and that we've nailed our messaging. (This is the same thinking underlying Jessica Livingston's advice for early startups to focus on sales, not marketing.) If the conversations fall flat, I can drop the blazer, which makes discovery-style conversations easier since folks won't be too scared to chat. Finding PMF is about operating in these two different modes at conferences and everywhere else.

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Wishing you were joining the Snowflake Summit in person next week? Tune in for key sessions virtually, to hear about Snowflake's NVIDIA partnership updates, as well as key Snowflake product announcements! https://lnkd.in/eFJKpcFM #SnowflakeSummit #VirtualEvent #NVIDIA #PartnershipUpdate #ProductAnnouncements #Innovation #TechConference

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❄ Great to see an incredible quarter for Snowflake! Our core business remains strong. Product Revenue for the quarter was $790 million, up 34% year-over-year. “Our core business is very strong,” new Chief Executive Sridhar Ramaswamy said in a release. “Our AI products, now generally available, are generating strong customer interest. They will help our customers deliver effective and efficient AI-powered experiences faster than ever.” #Snowflake #data #ai #dataaicloud #makeitsnow Read more here ⬇

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Snowflake Polaris: POC Status 2. Branching, tagging, branch fast-forwarding, expiring snapshots, and all other maintenance procedures are working smoothly without any issues. I’m hopeful that Snowflake will assist with the issues I’m experiencing related to add_files and register_table procedures. Snowflake Dremio ambariCloud Today's Quote: Arrogance has toppled empires.

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Announcing Databricks AI/BI, a new type of BI product that deeply understands your data’s semantics and democratizes analytics. Built on a compound AI system that powers: - AI/BI Dashboards: AI-powered, low-code solution with all BI capabilities you'd expert out of the box, for answering a fixed set of business questions. - Genie: a conversational interface that can learn your underlying data continuously based on human feedback, and flexibly answer questions. Learn more about AI/BI's design and what this means for self-service BI.

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