D&I Integrators October Newsletter

Our theme for October is: Do I have your attention?

Meaning the most important question for any data and analytics project is “Is this going to engage the end users?"

Use Case Spotlight

This month, in one of our engagements we demonstrated to our client’s end users the functionality of ThoughtSpot firsthand. Covering three important aspects of how to navigate throughout the tool, customize their own account for efficiency, and how to build reports and dashboards with the live data connected to their environment. Enabling the end users with this knowledge accelerates the user engagement, as they feel more confident utilizing the tool.

In our other engagements, we helped our clients improve and modify the interface of their internal dashboards based on user feedback. By adding more dynamic filters and changing formatting to what the end users are more familiar with increases the user engagement and experience.

This month we also attended the Snowflake World Tour stop in Toronto on October 21st, while we were able to connect with new people and catch up with previous clients we also learned:

• How to automate tasks with Snowflake Notebooks,

• How to use AS OF joins and the FORECAST function to help us think of new service offerings to previous, current, and new clients.

• Many new features of the Streamlit app in Snowpark.

• How to leverage the Snowflake Marketplace internally.

Tips & Best Practices

At D&I, we are always looking for ways to make our clients' lives easier. This month we found what helped our clients was:

• Though… I do not know the way!! Demonstrating to end users how to utilize the end product is the best way to help them hit the ground running and engage their interest in new processes and tools.

• The people have spoken!! Developing and building around the feedback from End users helps guide the process of a new project and engages end users instantly.

• ABL... Always be Learning!! Attending conferences can help your team learn new features and best practices, which can help solve current problems and brainstorm new processes.

Coming Up

D&I continues to expand our team as we grow our business

D&I will be attending the Databricks Data + AI World Tour stop in Toronto on November 14th, see you there!