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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I discuss Google Cloud’s breakthrough with BigQuery, exploring its new real-time analytics capabilities and how it will transform customer experiences by enabling businesses to make data-driven decisions instantly.
Highlights
00:16 — Google Cloud has made a big breakthrough with its BigQuery data platform. It can be described as a real-time, event-driven analytical platform. The end result of all of this is that customers will be able to analyze and control their data in real time, ask questions about it, and keep up with their customers and what those customers want.
01:28 — Google Cloud said that customers want real-time, personalized interactions across their experiences. But until now, these analyses were often based on data that was anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes old, to an hour old, and in some cases, a day old. So, the new capability now offered in Google Cloud’s BigQuery will allow Google Cloud’s customers to offer better experiences and real-time interactions.
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02:28 — This is the CEO who says, “I don’t want to know what happened half an hour ago, two days ago, or two weeks ago. I want to know what’s the state of our business right now.” The world is moving in this direction. This aligns with other things that have been taking place at Google Cloud over the past year around BigQuery. The company has consolidated many of those efforts under BigQuery now.
03:33 — More importantly, it’s going to make it easier for customers to look across the Google Cloud portfolio and put together the right sorts of solutions that customers want as they move forward. As I mentioned earlier, I think that within Google Cloud, BigQuery is approaching superstar status.
