Drill to Detail Ep.72 'Conversion Rate Optimization and Other CRAP' with Special Guest Bhav Patel

In this final Drill to Detail Episode before we take a break for the summer, Mark Rittman is joined by Bhav Patel, founder of the London Conversion Rate, Optimization and Product Analytics Meetup to talk about Conversion Rate Optimization, Experimentation and A/B Testing, Customer vs. Product Analytics, Attribution and Personalization ... and the story behind the CRAP Meetups.

• CRAP Talks: CRO, Analytics and Product London

• CRAP Talks on Slack

• Analytics, BigQuery, Looker and How I Became an Internet Meme for 48 Hours (CRAP Talks presentation)

• McDonald’s is acquiring Dynamic Yield to create a more customized drive-thru (TechCrunch)

Drill to Detail Ep.71 'The Rise of Snowflake Data Warehouse' With Special Guest Kent Graziano

Mark Rittman is joined in this episode of Drill to Detail by returning guest Kent Graziano, Chief Technical Evangelist for Snowflake, to talk about Snowflake Data Warehouse's cloud-first architecture and recent product announcements at Snowflake Summit 2019.

• Try Snowflake Data Warehouse for free

• Watch Summit 2019 Keynotes

• Snowflake Materialized Views: A Fast, Zero-Maintenance, Accurate Solution

• Modern Data Sharing: The Opportunities Are Endless

• Drill to Detail Ep. 5 'SnowflakeDB, and is Data Modeling Dead?' with Special Guest Kent Graziano

Drill to Detail Ep.70 'Oracle Analytics, Luke Skywalker and the Remarkable Return of Enterprise Analytics' featuring Special Guest Bruno Aziza

Mark Rittman is joined by Bruno Aziza, Group Vice President, AI, Data Analytics & Cloud at Oracle to talk about the recently-updated product roadmap for Oracle Analytics, Oracle BI in the marketplace, recent acquisitions in the analytics marketplace and the recent Oracle Analytics Summit at Skywalker Ranch, California.

• Oracle Analytics Summit

• Oracle Analytics Summit Recap

• Oracle Analytics for Applications: Oracle Analytics Summit Product Tour

• Oracle Analytics: Honing 18+ products down to a single brand

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