Practical insights, guides and perspectives from the Actiknow team.
Learn when Amazon Redshift data sharing can replace copied datasets and ETL feeds, including cross-cluster, account and region access, governance, cost and workload isolation.
9 min read · 7 OctDecide whether BigQuery BI Engine is worth adding by measuring dashboard latency, repeated query patterns, concurrency, preferred tables, reservation sizing and user experience.
9 min read · 7 OctCompare BigQuery materialized views vs standard logical views for repeated queries, precomputation, freshness, maintenance cost, SQL flexibility and operational complexity.
9 min read · 7 OctDefine dashboard data freshness SLAs using decision needs, source latency, pipeline duration, recovery targets, ownership, monitoring and escalation instead of vague “real-time” requirements.
12 min read · 6 OctDesign a reliable Power BI gateway architecture with clustering, service accounts, network planning, credential ownership, monitoring, refresh recovery and security controls.
12 min read · 6 OctTalk to our team about data, analytics and custom software.