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• Data Stack Implementation
• Data Governance

We use a hybrid of Kimball’s Dimensional Modeling and One Big Table (OBT) to model our clients’ data — learn about both methods and why we combine them.

• Data Team Enablement
• Business Intelligence

Manage an increasing influx of data requests by learning how to design a streamlined intake process that efficiently organizes and responds to these requests.

• Data Tooling Optimization
• Sigma

• Data Team Enablement
• Business Intelligence

Demonstrate the value of your data projects in dollars to show stakeholders how they drive revenue, reduce costs, and unlock growth opportunities.

• Data Team Enablement
• dbt

We share the benefits of well-documented dbt exposures, why the exposures feature isn’t frequently utilized, and how auto-exposures enhance its capabilities.

• Data Stack Implementation
• Snowflake

We recap the exciting things we learned at Snowflake’s 2024 Data Cloud World Tour stops in Chicago and New York.

• Data Stack Implementation
• Business Intelligence

AI assistants were popular at this year’s Coalesce, but they still lack maturity — we delve into the issues preventing their widespread adoption.

• Data Tooling Optimization
• dbt

Learn about the GitHub and dbt AI tools Angélica De León uses to streamline her analytics engineering workflow and a new dbt tool she’s excited about.

• Data Architecture
• Dagster

We explore how combining Apache Iceberg with Dagster’s embedded ELT framework simplifies building a scalable, open data lakehouse.

• Data Tooling Optimization
• dbt

Andrew Gramigna shares three key themes he identified at Coalesce 2024 and how they will impact data professionals in the years to come.

• Data Team Enablement
• Data Governance

Learn about the five pillars we use to evaluate your organization’s data maturity so you can increase that maturity to stay competitive.

• Data Tooling Optimization
• Sigma

We highlight three updates from Sigma’s fall product launch we believe will make an impact: semantic modeling, AI integration, and user interface upgrades.

• Data Team Enablement
• dbt

Since dbt Labs significantly revised their Analytics Engineering Certification exam this year, we review what has changed so you can better prepare for it.

• Data Team Enablement
• Data Warehouse

Get our tips for monitoring your cloud data warehouse’s usage and performance so you can keep your organization’s cloud costs down.

• Data Reporting and Dashboarding
• Sigma

To demonstrate the power of embedded analytics, we share how we partnered with Sigma Computing, to develop an embedded application.

• Data Governance
• Digital Marketing and Measurement

Learn about the enterprise data management (EDM) strategies Velir uses to help clients maximize their ROI through data-driven decision-making.

• Snowflake
• Business Intelligence

Explore the AI advances unveiled at Snowflake Summit 2024 and discover how your organization can leverage them in its data strategy.

• Snowflake
• Reverse ETL

Learn about the value of CDC and Reverse ETL, as we share a real-world example of how we used change streams in Snowflake to implement them for a client.

• Data Platform Migration
• Data Governance

Learn key strategies for successful data migration through our Plan—Build—Ship approach and learn more about them in our upcoming blog series.

• Data Stack Implementation
• Snowflake

Read four reasons why Snowflake is our platform of choice for helping financial services worldwide better leverage their data.

• dbt
• Events

Learn more about our time at Coalesce 2023 and some key takeaways for our team.

• Hightouch
• Digital Marketing and Measurement

As more organizations work to build 360° views of their customers we reflect on identity resolution solutions and share our perspectives on them.

• Events
• Snowflake

Rachel Asaro shares her experience attending Snowflake Summit 2023, her first Snowflake Summit since she joined Brooklyn Data Co (a Velir Company).

• Data and Analytics Engineering

To evaluate open table storage formats like Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake, we ran a set of comprehensive workloads to benchmark their performance.