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• Dbt

A deep dive into upgrading active dbt projects to Fusion—what works well, what’s still buggy, and why Fusion is poised to shape the future of dbt development after Coalesce 2025.

• Data Stack Implementation
• dbt

Learn why managing UDFs in dbt introduces governance risks, added compute cost, and transformation-layer anti-patterns—and when macros or models are better choices.

• Data Governance and Security
• Snowflake

• Data Governance and Security
• Snowflake

• Data Governance and Security
• Snowflake

• Data Reporting and Dashboarding
• Business Intelligence

Snowflake’s new Open Semantic Interchange Initiative (OSI) aims to unify metric definitions across the modern data stack, enabling better interoperability and AI-driven analytics. Learn what OSI is, why it matters, and how data teams can prepare for this emerging semantic standard.

• Business Intelligence

Beautiful dashboards aren’t enough. Learn how to design data reports that inspire action, drive decisions, and earn stakeholder trust with Brooklyn Data Co.

• Fivetran
• Dbt

As a proud dbt Partner and sponsor, Brooklyn Data joined the global analytics-engineering community at Coalesce 2025. Discover our key insights on the Fivetran + dbt Labs merger, AI-driven workflows, open standards, and the future of modern data ecosystems.

• Data Reporting and Dashboarding
• Databricks

Explore highlights from the Databricks Data + AI World Tour in Atlanta, including Databricks One, AI/BI Dashboards, Agent Bricks, and Lakebase innovations.

• Data Reporting and Dashboarding
• Sigma

Discover how Sigma’s EMEA Enablement Tour is driving community, compliance, and data democratization across Europe—with Brooklyn Data as a key partner.

• Data Tooling Optimization
• dbt

Discover how Brooklyn Data engineers streamline managing multiple dbt Cloud projects. Learn practical tips and a manual workflow for switching between dbt Cloud projects in the Cloud CLI—helping consultants and data teams save time and stay efficient.

• Dbt

Brooklyn Data explains what the Fivetran and dbt Labs merger means for data teams, flexibility, and building the modern data stack of the future.

• Data Science and Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence

Learn about our Data-to-Impact framework and how we transform raw information into measurable business results.

• Data Science and Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence

7 Ways AI Can Help Your Data Drive Growth

• Artificial Intelligence
• Hightouch

Discover how AI Decisioning revolutionizes lifecycle marketing in the US—unlocking 1:1 personalization, deeper customer relationships, and measurable ROI.

• Data Science and Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence

Find out how AI in data analysis and marketing can supercharge your growth and increase customer lifetime value.

• Data Team Enablement
• dbt

Discover how a dbt testing strategy strengthens data quality, reduces technical debt, and ensures long-term success in your data operations.

• Data Stack Implementation
• Sigma

Explore Sigma’s Fall 2025 release—AI-powered insights, pixel-perfect reporting, and in-platform workflow automation built for real data team needs.

• Data and Analytics
• Data and Analytics Engineering

Learn how to run effective analytics PR reviews that go beyond passing tests. Improve code quality, security, and collaboration with proven best practices.

• Snowflake

Discover how Market Basket Analysis in Snowflake uncovers buying patterns, drives cross-sell opportunities, and powers smarter merchandising decisions.

• Data Stack Implementation
• Data Strategy and Governance

Discover the top five challenges data leaders face in 2025 — and how Brooklyn Data helps them overcome each one.

• Data Stack Implementation
• Sigma

Unlock real-time insights by pairing Databricks with Sigma — streamline data workflows, empower teams, and turn raw data into business impact faster.

• Data Stack Implementation
• Databricks

Read our thoughts on the 2025 Databricks Data + AI Summit, and our take on tools like Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Genie, and Lakeflow Designer.

• Technology Strategy
• dbt Fusion

Learn how to install and run dbt Fusion using Dev Containers for seamless local development without conflicts with dbt Core.

• Data Stack Implementation
• Snowflake

Explore how Snowflake empowers your business with scalable data warehousing, governance, and AI-powered tools to unlock insights and drive growth.

• Data Stack Implementation
• Data and Analytics Engineering

Discover what data analytics consulting really means — and how Brooklyn Data helps data teams unlock value with strategic, scalable, and impactful solutions.

• Data Tooling Optimization
• Business Intelligence

Learn about Domopalooza 2025’s exciting announcements, from enterprise-grade autonomous agents to no-code interfaces and enhanced productivity tools.

• Data Tooling Optimization
• Artificial Intelligence

Explore how modern data consulting helps organizations build the necessary infrastructure, governance, and strategy to scale AI.

• Data Strategy and Integration
• Data Strategy and Governance

Learn how a unified data strategy can help reduce customer churn and increase revenue.

• Data Strategy and Integration
• AI and Machine Learning

Learn how Brooklyn Data helps marketing and data teams build AI maturity — from strategy to infrastructure — so you can turn AI ambitions into real results.

• Data Strategy and Integration
• Data Governance

What is AI-ready data, and how can you ensure your business data is ready to integrate with AI?

• Data Science and Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence

Find out how AI is revolutionizing data marketing and how you can prepare your data team to take full advantage.

• Business Intelligence
• Sigma

Learn how we revolutionized our Certifications Tracking using the power of Sigma’s Data Apps.

• Data Stack Implementation
• Business Intelligence

We explain the concept of the analytics value chain and why being purposeful and deliberate in your data journey is key to unlocking your data's value.

• Data Strategy and Integration
• Data Governance

Learn why companies need data governance, a structured, intentional approach to managing how data is used to get the full return on their data investments.

• Data Tooling Optimization
• dbt

We discuss a new dbt Labs feature — the invocation command —revealing how this nifty new dbt Cloud CLI command can help you debug active running dbt commands.

• Data Stack Implementation
• dbt

We explain why dbt Labs’ acquisition of SDF Labs promises a bright future for all dbt users — both core and Cloud.

• Data Stack Implementation
• Data Governance

We use a hybrid of Kimball’s Dimensional Modeling and One Big Table (OBT) to model our clients’ data — learn about both methods and why we combine them.

• Data Team Enablement
• Business Intelligence

Manage an increasing influx of data requests by learning how to design a streamlined intake process that efficiently organizes and responds to these requests.

• Data Tooling Optimization
• Sigma

• Data Team Enablement
• Business Intelligence

Demonstrate the value of your data projects in dollars to show stakeholders how they drive revenue, reduce costs, and unlock growth opportunities.

• Data Team Enablement
• dbt

We share the benefits of well-documented dbt exposures, why the exposures feature isn’t frequently utilized, and how auto-exposures enhance its capabilities.

• Data Stack Implementation
• Snowflake

We recap the exciting things we learned at Snowflake’s 2024 Data Cloud World Tour stops in Chicago and New York.

• Data Stack Implementation
• Business Intelligence

AI assistants were popular at this year’s Coalesce, but they still lack maturity — we delve into the issues preventing their widespread adoption.

• Data Tooling Optimization
• dbt

Learn about the GitHub and dbt AI tools Angélica De León uses to streamline her analytics engineering workflow and a new dbt tool she’s excited about.

• Data Architecture
• Dagster

We explore how combining Apache Iceberg with Dagster’s embedded ELT framework simplifies building a scalable, open data lakehouse.

• Data Tooling Optimization
• dbt

Andrew Gramigna shares three key themes he identified at Coalesce 2024 and how they will impact data professionals in the years to come.

• Data Team Enablement
• Data Governance

Learn about the five pillars we use to evaluate your organization’s data maturity so you can increase that maturity to stay competitive.

• Data Tooling Optimization
• Sigma

We highlight three updates from Sigma’s fall product launch we believe will make an impact: semantic modeling, AI integration, and user interface upgrades.

• Data Team Enablement
• dbt

Since dbt Labs significantly revised their Analytics Engineering Certification exam this year, we review what has changed so you can better prepare for it.

• Data Team Enablement
• Data Warehouse

Get our tips for monitoring your cloud data warehouse’s usage and performance so you can keep your organization’s cloud costs down.

• Data Reporting and Dashboarding
• Sigma

To demonstrate the power of embedded analytics, we share how we partnered with Sigma Computing, to develop an embedded application.

• Data Governance
• Digital Marketing and Measurement

Learn about the enterprise data management (EDM) strategies Velir uses to help clients maximize their ROI through data-driven decision-making.

• Snowflake
• Business Intelligence

Explore the AI advances unveiled at Snowflake Summit 2024 and discover how your organization can leverage them in its data strategy.

• Snowflake
• Reverse ETL

Learn about the value of CDC and Reverse ETL, as we share a real-world example of how we used change streams in Snowflake to implement them for a client.

• Data Platform Migration
• Data Governance

Learn key strategies for successful data migration through our Plan—Build—Ship approach and learn more about them in our upcoming blog series.

• Data Stack Implementation
• Snowflake

Read four reasons why Snowflake is our platform of choice for helping financial services worldwide better leverage their data.