With the introduction of Live Query for BigQuery and Alteryx One: Google Edition, users no longer need to move data to run workflows. Companies that standardize cloud platforms for analytics and AI often see a gap between where data is stored and how it is prepared and used. Alteryx wants to change that by bringing analytics workflows directly to BigQuery. The promise: from data to insight to action, without compromising on security or scalability.
Yasmeen Ahmad, managing director, Google Data Cloud, said that the greatest barrier to productivity in data science was switching between database/data warehouse environments to get data with SQL code, only to export and load it into a Python notebook to do machine learning, while configuring a separate Spark cluster. They might then switch to a BI tool just to visualize results, she said.