Sponsored by: Fivetran | Raw Data to Real-Time Insights: How Dropbox Revolutionized Data Ingestion
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Dropbox, a leading cloud storage platform, is on a mission to accelerate data insights to better understand customers’ needs and elevate the overall customer experience. By leveraging Fivetran’s data movement platform, Dropbox gained real-time visibility into customer sentiment, marketing ROI, and ad performance-empowering teams to optimize spend, improve operational efficiency, and deliver greater business outcomes. Join this session to learn how Dropbox: - Cut data pipeline time from 8 weeks to 30 minutes by automating ingestion and streamlining reporting workflows. - Enable real-time, reliable data movement across tools like Zendesk Chat, Google Ads, MySQL, and more — at global operations scale. - Unify fragmented data sources into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to reduce redundancy, improve accessibility, and support scalable analytics. Talk By: Chris Neat, Engineering Manager, Dropbox (Sponsor Speaker); Kelly Kohlleffel, Sr Global Director, Partner Sales Eng, Fivetran (Sponsor Speaker) Here’s more to explore: Production ready data pipelines for analytics and AI: https://www.databricks.com/solutions/data-engineering The Big Book of Data Engineering: https://www.…
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