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Data is the underlying force that drives modern marketing campaigns. But if you're an agency running multiple promotions across platforms, the data aggregation process ...
ETL/ELT
Top 5 Supermetrics Alternatives: Balancing Ease Of Use & Cost
You've spent a bunch of time figuring out the best data stack for your company. It was hard work, and occasionally it was frustrating, but mostly it was fun.
Data Stack
How to Propose a Data Stack
This tutorial was authored by Ahmed Shaaban, a MeasureMatch partner.
MySQL
MySQL Replication for Analytics and Visualization: A Panoply Tutorial
Xero is widely recognized as the best online accounting software for small businesses. Similar to Google Ad Analytics, Xero is a lightweight and easy-to-use analytics ...
Data Stack
Top 6 Xero Analytics and Reporting Tools for SMBs
At Panoply, we get a lot of customers who are looking to use Grafana to analyze data stored in DynamoDB instances. If you’ve ever looked into this, you’ve probably seen ...
Data Analysis
How to analyze DynamoDB data in Grafana
Twitter, the punchy platform that gave us the #hashtag, turned 13 this year.
Data Stack
Top 12 Twitter Analytics Tools
Facebook began as a dorm-room startup, and now the social platform dominates our culture. Few could have predicted that Facebook would become such a fixture of our ...
Data Stack
Top Eight Facebook Analytics Tools
One billion people use Instagram every month. 4.2 billion likes each day—to be exact. With over 25 million businesses using Instagram, the competition is fierce for all ...
Data Stack
Follow the Data: the Top Instagram Analytics Tools
I recently sat down with Aron Clymer to talk about his approach to architecting and building data stacks. Aron has built data analytics stacks and developed analytics ...
Being Data-Driven
When It's Time to Build an Analytics Stack
Tableau is a tool that helps people to visualize and understand data quickly. You can use it to create worksheets, reports, and customized dashboards, and it offers ...
Data Stack
Tableau and PostgreSQL: How To Make Them Work Together
According to Gartner, more than 50% of marketing organizations use a data management platform (DMP), either directly or through an agency partner, and a vast majority of ...
Data Stack
What to do When Data Management Platforms are not Enough
Data preparation, part of the data management process, involves collecting raw data from multiple sources and consolidating it into a file or database for analysis. Data ...
Data Stack
Top Data Preparation Tools for Your Business
When we say “big data”, many think of the Hadoop technology stack. Is this the big data stack?
Data Management
Big Data Stack in Big Data Analytics | Panoply Blog
We use databases to store, organize, query, and process structured data in computer systems quickly and efficiently. In this post, I will highlight how two leading ...
Data Stack
MySQL vs Oracle: Key Differences Compared | Panoply
Your company sits on an immense treasure trove of data, but tapping this data and accessing its value can be a challenge.
Data Stack
Get Stacked: Designing a High Performance, High ROI Data Stack
The data industry continues to impress with new tools being released every month. While we all love choices, the current data stack landscape can be overwhelming. We’re ...
Data Stack
Top Tools For A Dangerously Effective Data Stack
The future of any successful enterprise will hinge on its ability to harness and use massive amounts of data currently available, to improve productivity, decrease ...
Data Warehousing
Database vs Data Warehouse - What's The Difference?
Long before there was big data, there were computing solutions designed to store, organize, and analyze data. But just like the job of a big data architect, it's both ...
Data Stack
Selecting a Big Data Solution: Top 10 Questions to Ask
Big Data can be a seductive master. How can you maximize time-to-insight without going over to the Dark Side?
Data Stack
What Star Wars Can Teach us about Analytics Infrastructure
If you’re looking for a solution for processing huge chuncks of data, then there are lots of options these days. Depending on your use case and the type of operations ...
Data Stack
Apache Spark Architecture, Use Cases and Issues
If you recognize your data as an asset, then augmenting it simply means growing your business assets. With data augmentation, you can run manipulations on existing data, ...
Data Stack
Data Augmentation: Bringing New Life to Your Data
The cloud, unlike the Force, is not a mystical energy that surrounds us and binds us.
Data Stack
Castles in the Cloud: Tips for Cloud Infrastructure
We often come across new products aiming to help us with our lives or improve our productivity. It’s in our best interests to find the best products that will minimize ...
Data Stack
Data Tools: How to Ace Product Evaluation
This is the second part in a 101 series covering Big Data concepts, terminology and technology.
Data Warehousing
How Data Structures Impact the Data Warehouse
As a species we’ve invented some pretty nifty things. It’s practically consensus that the wheel, the printing press and the internet top the list but we don’t need to ...
Data Stack
Hadoop Alternatives: What Other Big Data Solutions are Out There

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