Author name: Vivek Pathak

In defense of deliverables when working from home. Several years ago BroadPeak started an experiment. We dis-assembled the concept of a workday. No set hours. No set vacation. No requirement to work in the office. We simply focus on deliverables and only deliverables. Today’s pandemic is a sad twist on our work from home efforts. 

That’s right. AWS recently expanded its IaaS suite to include “AWS Transfer for SFTP”, which true to its name, is an SFTP service for transferring files. What’s interesting about this SFTP product is that it works as an interface between the outside world and your Amazon S3 buckets. That means you can now turn your

Data Prep and Data Harmonization Before you slap a visualization tool on top of data, it has to be organized.  If things are organized, you can ask yourself questions about the aggregate data set. Such as when I ask my four year old daughter to “count how many striped socks daddy has”.  She promptly opens

Here is the truth. In software sales, it literally pays to lie. That’s the number one thing you need to know when you are buying. Whether you are buying ERP software, HR software or something else core to your business, you must watch out for the traps. Here’s the two big kinds of software lies:

Digital Transformation is a Styrofoam Burger Have you heard this term thrown around? A term this vague, all-encompassing, and unspecific should trigger your B.S. Spidey senses. Digital Transformation (DT) is a great example of marketing, consultants, and the blind virus incubator of the internet run amok. At its core, the idea was spawned to help

Warning: Data may be messier than it appears. Tableau did a great thing for its community by creating the Tableau Superstore. The Superstore is a sample data set users tap into as a common starting point for feature requests, customer support, training, experimenting, etc. Much like high school chemistry however, it makes necessary assumptions to