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A data platform is a comprehensive end-to-end solution for all your data. A true data platform can ingest, process, analyze and present data generated by all the systems and infrastructures within your organization. In this topic, there’s a lot of things to understand and consider. So, let’s take a deep look at data platforms, including the definition and related terms, the benefits and use cases, and how to start building your data strategy.

Businesses today rely on analytics and insights derived from different data types for gaining competitive advantages. These data often come from different sources and in different formats. Without a unified solution, aggregating those data and performing analytics tasks is challenging. ELT has been invented to solve the complexities associated with processing data from multiple sources while retaining the raw data as it is.

Simply put, customer analytics (or customer data analytics) is the process of using information about customer preferences and behavior to improve sales, marketing and product development. You can think of customer analytics as the type of customer behavior where buyers are doing internet research before making a purchase. There is now a vast amount of information available for nearly every product category online.

For most of the past year, we here at InfluxData focused on shipping the latest version of InfluxDB. To date, we launched three commercial products (InfluxDB Cloud Serverless, InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated, and InfluxDB Clustered), with more open source options on the way. All the while, we claimed that this latest version of InfluxDB surpasses anything we built before.

Last year, the US Navy’s Capstone Design Concept for Information Superiority provided digital modernization guidance for the Department of the Navy (DON). The document sets forth the overarching goal: to “securely move any information from anywhere to anywhere” in order to achieve information superiority. The design concept also highlights two outcomes: customer experience and operational resilience.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. When you think about generative AI, what instinctively comes to your mind is content and image generation. But, in this week’s Top tips column, let’s look at a less-explored facet of generative AI: data analytics. There are a lot of conversations about data and its benefits.

With over 500,000 residential, business, and wholesale customers across multiple markets in the United States, WideOpenWest (WOW!) is one of the United States’ largest broadband providers. They aim to connect homes and businesses to the world with fast and reliable internet, TV, and phone services.