Whats The Point Blog by Vantage Point

Tune your Tableau Workbook like a Gibson Guitar “My report is so slow!” How many times have you heard that from a client (or from yourself)?I’m sure I am not alone when it comes to the frustration of working with a slow Tableau dashboard! And of course, the client,...

Recently, cloud warehouse giant, Snowflake launched the Snowflake SQL API and we were very excited to try out this new addition! The Snowflake SQL API makes it possible for custom-built and third-party applications to call Snowflake’s Data Cloud through a REST...

In this post, I will be doing a deep dive into why contextual analytics should be the core of a business’s data-driven decision-making strategy. Gone are the days where reporting was done off hundreds of printed pages, multiple punch folders, a calculator, and a...

Over 1 million businesses will have monetized their data assets by 2030, and over 12 exabytes of data will be traded every day. Additionally, the data marketplace will turn into a new economy and will unlock a total worth of almost $3.6 trillion. For most...

The number of open-source Big Data tools has exploded in our data-driven society in just a few years. Because of the variety of alternatives, a wide range of tools and platforms for storing, processing, and visualizing data has emerged thus changing the data...

How Retail Giant Mr Price Group Stays Ahead Of The Market With Snowflake & Vantage Recently I attended an event that Snowflake and Vantage Data hosted with Mr Price. The webinar covered how Mr Price has overcome the challenges of managing and scaling their legacy...

When I decided to write for our blog, “What’s the Point”, one of the things I wanted to do was review Vantage Point. Now, this may seem a bit unconventional since I work for Vantage Data (the company that developed Vantage Point) but being a professional in the data...

It’s 2021 and by now any data-driven organization should have a centralized, well-configured cloud data warehouse. Why? Well, you will need a central repository for all your data so that teams across your organization can access it in order to run queries and do some...

We know that data is the driving force behind any business in today's society. With that being said, it is not only desirable, but also required, to store that data in a safe location, whether physical or online. Data is your best asset and because of this, it needs...

You may have heard the term “Data Vault” being mentioned occasionally. In fact, I find that when speaking to our larger clients about the best way to organize information by developing a data model, two solutions are often brought up. The first is a relational model...