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Get intelligent,
AI-powered
insights for a
competitive edge.
Data plays a critical role in business today. From driving
innovation to enhancing the customer experience, it’s
the guiding light for making intelligent business decisions.
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Unlock powerful
insights with AI and ML.
Go from data to business value faster
with best-of-breed analytics and AI tools
and services.
To turn data into actionable insights, leading from place to place. Your data scientists and
companies embrace AI and ML. These powerful data analysts should be able to hit the ground
tools do the hard work of extracting insights at running using simple SQL, without getting
scale and in a fraction of the time it would take bogged down in complex algorithms.
with legacy processes.
Enable massive scalability
While most organizations know they need these
tools, adoption remains low. A great incentive Consider how much data your organization
to change? Those out in front can make smarter, deals with today. Now think about how much
faster business decisions. there could be tomorrow. To compete, you’ll
need the ability to run rapid analytics on both
44% of ‘digital-forward’ companies structured and unstructured data at near-
infinite scale, without incurring extra storage
currently use data analytics, AI/ML,
or compute costs.
and IoT tools – compared to just 24%
of ‘digital-conservative’ companies.3 Get the ability to dive deeper
The latest data analytics and AI tools will help Some data sets will naturally need deeper
you keep pace with the leaders. Here are some analysis. From one AI platform, you should
key things to consider. have the ability to build and execute simple ML
models right through to advanced analytics
Aim for speed and simplicity – all within minutes.
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Once you’ve democratized your data and got your AI/ML tools in place, your
data scientists can start experimenting with real-time data. And when this
happens, your potential for innovation truly takes off.
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Done well, data analysis delivers significant pay for what you use, and get automatic savings
business value. Yet if you’re manually based on monthly usage or by pre-paying
configuring clusters and provisioning more for resources.
nodes as data grows, you may find the cost and
complexity quickly become prohibitive. Save in more ways than one
It’s why more organizations are turning to Serverless AI/ML platforms can automatically
serverless computing. The inherent elasticity scale to thousands of cores in seconds,
and scalability of this model is ideal for the letting you run analytics without constraint.
unpredictable workloads associated with all that And you don’t have to worry about system
data crunching. provisioning, maintenance, fault tolerance,
or performance tuning.
Only pay for what you use
Optimize spend with actionable, AI-powered
recommendations. Ideally, you should only ever
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Quantum Metric recovers
lost revenue with digital
experience analytics
Tech company Quantum Metric works with major retailers to help them find
and fix flaws with their online shopping experiences. It’s using Google Cloud
and Google BigQuery for high-performance, highly scalable, and secure data
processing and analysis.
Results
• 15% average increase in customers’ e-commerce sales
• 50% business growth
• 3x faster to close deals
• Met enterprise security requirements such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001
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How Google Cloud helps you
access and use data insights, faster.
More than 90% of Forbes’ top 20 digital companies are using Google Cloud.
Accelerate experimentation and innovation Google BigQuery has been one of the
with AI/ML biggest assets in Geotab’s Data & Analytics
Use AutoML and BigQuery ML to innovate faster and portfolio. Through rapid iteration on data-
create magical user experiences, even without AI centric analytic and AI models across
expertise. Or use Vertex AI to train models with nearly petabytes of data arising from 2.3 million
80% fewer lines of code than other platforms. connected vehicles, Google BigQuery has
allowed our data scientists and engineers
Extract more value from your data to accelerate time-to-market of our
products and solutions.”
Use Looker to access the truest, most up-to-date version
—Mike Branch, VP Data & Analytics, Geotab
of your company’s data, across any cloud.
Talk to an expert
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