Drill to Detail Ep.69 'Looker, Tableau and Consolidation in the BI Industry' featuring Special Guests Tristan Handy and Stewart Bryson

Mark Rittman, Founder and CEO of Rittman Analytics is joined in this special episode of Drill to Detail by returning guests Tristan Handy, Founder and CEO of Fishtown Analytics and Stewart Bryson, Founder and CEO of Red Pill Analytics to talk about the recent acquisitions of Looker by Google Cloud Platform and Tableau by Salesforce, the wider story about consolidation in the BI industry and whether the trend in analytics tools is towards enterprise features … or open source?

• Five Thoughts on the Looker Acquisition by GCPCloud - Mark Rittman, Twitter Thread

• A Wave of Acquisitions in Business Intelligence - Tristan Handy, Fishtown Analytics Blog

• Google to acquire Looker - Thomas Kurian Blog Post

• Google Cloud and Looker (PDF)

• Siebel Analytics - The Jewel in the Project Fusion Crown? - Mark Rittman’s Oracle Weblog via Internet Archive

• Applications in Looker

• Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Tableau

• Salesforce.com's Tableau Acquisition: Admitting Organic Innovation Failure?

Drill to Detail Ep.68 ‘Confluent, Event-First Thinking and Streaming Real-Time Analytics’ With Special Guests Robin Moffatt and Ricardo Ferreira and Special Host Stewart Bryson

In this special edition of the Drill to Detail Podcast hosted by Stewart Bryson, CEO and Co-Founder of Red Pill Analytics, he is joined by Robin Moffatt and Ricardo Ferreira, Developer Advocates at Confluent, to talk about Apache Kafka and Confluent, event-first thinking and streaming real-time analytics.

• Confluent Download: https://www.confluent.io/download/

• Demo: https://github.com/confluentinc/cp-demo/

• Slack group: http://cnfl.io/slack

• Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/confluent-platform

• From Zero to Hero with Kafka Connect: http://rmoff.dev/ksldn19l-kafka-connect-slides

• No More Silos: Integrating Databases and Apache Kafka: http://rmoff.dev/ksny19-no-more-silos

• The Changing Face of ETL: Event-Driven Architectures for Data Engineers: http://rmoff.dev/changing-face-of-etl

Drill to Detail Ep.67 'Thinking Probabilistically and Scaling-Out the Modern BI Stack' with Special Guest Dylan Baker

Mark Rittman is joined by Dylan Baker, freelance analytics consultant, to talk about thinking probabalistically, analytics within venture-funded startups, devops and its role in scaling-out the modern BI stack.

• dbanalytics.co

• lookeraccess utility

• Annie Duke – Wanna Bet? – [Invest Like the Best, EP.125]

• London dbt Meetup #2

Drill to Detail Ep.66 'ETL, Incorta and the Death of the Star Schema' with Special Guest Matthew Halliday

Mark Rittman is joined by Matthew Halliday to talk about the challenge of ETL and analytics on complex relational OLTP data models, previous attempts to solve these problems with products such as Oracle Essbase and Oracle E-Business Suite Extensions for Oracle Endeca and how those experiences, and others, led to his current role as co-founder and VP of Products at Incorta.

• The Death of the Star Schema: 3 Key Innovations Driving the Rapid Demise

• Accelerating Analytics with Direct Data Mapping

• Accelerating Operational Reporting & Analytics for Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)

• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Extract Transform Load (ETL)

• E-Business Suite Extensions for Endeca: Technical Considerations

• The Pain of Operational Reporting Solutions for Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)

Drill to Detail Ep.65 'Bootstrapping, Growth Hacking and Supermetrics Data Pipelines for Digital Marketers' with Special Guest Mikael Thuneberg

Mark Rittman is joined by CEO and Founder of Supermetrics, Mikael Thuneberg, to tell the story of how a mention in the official Google Analytics Blog and a prize of a t-shirt led to him founding and bootstrapping what is now a €10M ARR marketing analytics business that’s probably the most important software vendor the Drill to Detail audience has never heard of, and who recently moved into the data pipelines-as-a-service market in collaboration with Google Cloud Platform and the Google BigQuery team.

• Announcing Supermetrics for BigQuery: Get a marketing data warehouse up and running in minutes (Supermetrics blog)

• Supermetrics, Google BigQuery and Data Pipelines for Digital Marketers (Rittman Analytics blog)