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.69 'Looker, Tableau and Vendor Consolidation' feat Tristan Handy & Stewart Bryson

Mark Rittman

Download

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.68 ‘Event-First Thinking & Streaming Analytics’ With Special Guest Robin Moffatt

Mark Rittman

Download

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.67 'Thinking Probabilistically and Scaling the Modern BI Stack' with Dylan Baker

Mark Rittman

Download