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(upbeat techno music) >> Hey everyone, and welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of Snowflake Summit '22 live from Caesar's Forum in beautiful, warm, and sunny Las Vegas. I'm Lisa Martin. I got the Chris and Chris show, next. Bear with me. Chris Degnan joins us again. One of our alumni, the Chief Revenue Officer at Snowflake. Good to have you back, Chris. >> Thank you for having us. >> Lisa: Chris Grusz also joins us. Director of Business Development AWS Marketplace and Service Catalog at AWS. Chris and Chris, welcome. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Good to be back in person. >> Isn't it great. >> Chris G: It's so much better. >> Chris D: Yeah. >> Nothing like it. So let's talk. There's been so much momentum, Chris D, at Snowflake the last few years. I mean the momentum at this show since we launched yesterday, I know you guys launched the day before with partners, has been amazing. A lot of change, and it's like this for Snowflake. Talk to us about AWS working together with Snowflake and some of the benefits in it from your customer. And then Chris G, I'll go to you for the same question. >> Chris G: Yep. >> You know, first of all, it's awesome. Like, I just, you know, it's been three years since I've had a Snowflake Summit in person, and it's crazy to see the growth that we've seen. You know, I can't, our first cloud that we ever launched on top of was, was AWS, and AWS is our largest cloud, you know, in in terms of revenue today. And they've been, they just kind of know how to do it right. And they've been a wonderful partner all along. There's been challenges, and we've kind of leaned in together and figured out ways to work together, you know, and to solve those challenges. So, been a wonderful partnership. >> And talk about it, Chris G, from your perspective obviously from a coopetition perspective. >> Yep. >> AWS has databases, cloud data forms. >> Chris G: Yeah. >> Talk to us about it. What was the impetus for the partnership with Snowflake from AWS's standpoint? >> Yeah, well first and foremost, they're building on top of AWS. And so that, by default, makes them a great partner. And it's interesting, Chris and I have been working together for, gosh, seven years now? And the relationship's come a really long way. You know, when we first started off, we were trying to sort out how we were going to work together, when we were competing, and when we're working together. And, you know, you fast forward to today, and it's just such a good relationship. Because both companies work backwards from customers. And so that's, you know, kind of in both of our DNA. And so if the customer makes that selection, we're going to support them, even from an AWS perspective. When they're going with Snowflake, that's still a really good thing for AWS, 'cause there's a lot of associated services that Snowflake either integrates to, or we're integrating to them. And so, it's really kind of contributed to how we can really work together in a co-sell motion. >> Talk to us, talk about that. The joint GOTO market and the co-selling motion from Snowflake's perspective, how do customers get engaged? >> Well, I think, you know, typically we, where we are really good at co-selling together is we identify on premise systems. So whether it's, you know, some Legacy UDP system, some Legacy database solution, and they want to move to the cloud? You know, Amazon is all in on getting everyone to the cloud. And I think that's their approach they've taken with us is saying we're really good at accelerating that adoption and moving all these, you know, massive workloads into the cloud. And then to Chris's point, you know, we've integrated so nicely into things like SageMaker and other tool sets. And we, we even have exciting scenarios where they've allowed us to use, you know, some of their Amazon.com retail data sets that we actually use in data sharing via the partnership. So we continue to find unique ways to partner with our great friends at Amazon. >> Sounds like a very deep partnership. >> Chris D: Yeah. Absolutely. >> Chris G: Oh, absolutely, yeah. We're integrating into Snowflake, and they're integrating to AWS. And so it just provides a great combined experience for our customers. And again, that's kind of what we're both looking forward from both of our organizations. >> That customer centricity is, >> Yeah. >> is I think the center of the flywheel that is both that both of you, your companies have. Chris D, talk about the the industry's solutions, specific, industry-specific solutions that Snowflake and AWS have. I know we talked yesterday about the pivot from a sales perspective >> Chris D: Yes. >> That snowflake made in recent months. Talk to us about the industries that you are help, really targeting with AWS to help customers solve problems. >> Yeah. I think there's, you know, we're focused on a number of industries. I think, you know, some of the examples, like I said, I gave you the example of we're using data sharing to help the retail space. And I think it's a really good partnership. Because some of the, some companies view Amazon as a competitor in the retail space, and I think we kind of soften that blow. And we actually leverage some of the Amazon.com data sets. And this is where the partnership's been really strong. In the healthcare space, in the life sciences space, we have customers like Anthem, where we're really focused on helping actually Anthem solve real business problems. Not necessarily like technical problems. It's like, oh no, they want to get, you know, figure out how they can get the whole customer and take care of their whole customer, and get them using the Anthem platform more effectively. So there's a really great, wonderful partnership there. >> We've heard a lot in the last day and a half on theCUBE from a lot of retail customers and partners. There seems to be a lot of growth in that. So there's so much change in the retail market. I was just talking with Click and Snowflake about Urban Outfitters, as an example. And you think of how what these companies are doing together and obviously AWS and Snowflake, helping companies not just pivot during the pandemic, but really survive. I mean, in the beginning with, you know, retail that didn't have a digital presence, what were they going to do? And then the supply chain issues. So it really seems to be what Snowflake and its partner Ecosystem is doing, is helping companies now, obviously, thrive. But it was really kind of like a no-go sort of situation for a lot of industries. >> Yeah, and I think the neat part of, you know, both the combined, you know, Snowflake and AWS solution is in, a good example is DoorDash, you know. They had hyper growth, and they could not have handled, especially during COVID, as we all know. We all used DoorDash, right? We were just talking about it. Chipotle, like, you know, like (laughter) and I think they were able to really take advantage of our hyper elastic platforms, both on the Amazon side and the Snowflake side to scale their business and meet the high demand that they were seeing. And that's kind of some of the great examples of where we've enabled customer growth to really accelerate. >> Yeah. Yeah, right. And I'd add to that, you know, while we saw good growth for those types of companies, a lot of your traditional companies saw a ton of benefit as well. Like another good example, and it's been talked about here at the show, is Western Union, right? So they're a company that's been around for a long time. They do cross border payments and cross currency, you know, exchanges, and, you know, like a lot of companies that have been around for a while, they have data all over the place. And so they started to look at that, and that became an inhibitor to their growth. 'Cause they couldn't get a full view of what was actually going on. And so they did a lengthy evaluation, and they ended up going with Snowflake. And, it was great, 'cause it provided a lot of immediate benefits, so first of all, they were able to take all those disparate systems and pull that into Snowflake. So they finally had a single source of the truth, which was lacking before that. So that was one of the big benefits. The second benefit, and Chris has mentioned this a couple times, is the fact that they could use data sharing. And so now they could pull in third data. And now that they had a holistic view of their entire data set, they could pull in that third party data, and now they could get insights that they never could get before. And so that was another large benefit. And then the third part, and this is where the relationship between AWS and Snowflake is great, is they could then use Amazon SageMaker. So one of the decisions that Western Union made a long time ago is they use R for their data science platform, and SageMaker supports R. And so it really allowed them to dovetail the skill sets that they had around data science into SageMaker. They could now look across all of Snowflake. And so that was just a really good benefit. And so it drove the cost down for Western Union which was a big benefit, but the even bigger benefit is they were now able to start to package and promote different solutions to their customers. So they were effectively able to monetize all the data that they were now getting and the information they were getting out of Snowflake. And then of course, once it was in there, they could also use things like Tableau or ThoughtSpot, both of which available in AWS Marketplace. And it allowed them to get all kinds of visualization of data that they never got in the past. >> The monetization piece is, is interesting. It's so challenging for organizations, one, to get that single source view, to be able to have a customer 360, but to also then be able to monetize data. When you're in customer conversations, how do you help customers on that journey, start? Because the, their competitors are clearly right behind them, ready to take first place spot. How do you help customers go, all right this is what we're going to do to help you on this journey with AWS to monetize your data? >> I think, you know, it's everything from, you know, looking at removing the silos of data. So one of the challenges they've had is they have these Legacy systems, and a lot of times they don't want to just take the Legacy systems and throw them into the cloud. They want to say, we need a holistic view of our customer, 360 view of our customer data. And then they're saying, hey, how can we actually monetize that data? That's where we do everything from, you know, Snowflake has the data marketplace where we list it in the data marketplace. We help them monetize it there. And we use some of the data sets from Amazon to help them do that. We use the technologies like Chris said with SageMaker and other tool sets to help them realize the value of their data in a real, meaningful way. >> So this sounds like a very strategic and technical partnership. >> Yeah, well, >> On both sides. >> It's technical and it's GOTO market. So if you take a look at, you know, Snowflake where they've built over 20 integrations now to different AWS services. So if you're using S3 for object storage, you can use Snowflake on top of that. If you want to load up Snowflake with Glue which is our ETL tool, you can do that. If you want to use QuickSite to do your data visualization on top of Snowflake, you can do that. So they've built integration to all of our services. And then we've built integrations like SageMaker back into Snowflake, and so that supports all kinds of specific customer use cases. So if you think of people that are doing any kind of cloud data platform workload, stuff like data engineering, data warehousing, data lakes, it could be even data applications, cyber security, unistore type things, Snowflake does an excellent job of helping our customers get into those types of environments. And so that's why we support the relationship with a variety of, you know, credit programs. We have a lot of co-sell motions on top of these technical integrations because we want to make sure that we not only have the right technical platform, but we've got the right GOTO market motion. And that's super important. >> Yeah, and I would add to that is like, you know one of the things that customers do is they make these large commitments to Amazon. And one of the best things that Amazon did was allow those customers to draw down Snowflake via the AWS Marketplace. So it's been wonderful to his point around the GOTO market, that was a huge issue for us. And, and again, this is where Amazon was innovative on identifying the ways to help make the customer have a better experience >> Chris G: Yeah. >> Chris D: and put the customer first. And this has been, you know, wonderful partnership there. >> Yeah. It really has. It's been a great, it's been really good. >> Well, and the customers are here. Like we said, >> Yep. >> Yes. Yes they are. >> we're north of 10,000 folks total, and customers are just chomping at the bit. There's been so much growth in the last three years from the last time, I think I heard the 2019 Snowflake Summit had about 1500 people. And here we are at 10,000 plus now, and standing-room-only keynote, the very big queue to get in, people turned away, pushed back to an overflow area to be able to see that, and that was yesterday. I didn't even get a chance to see what it was like today, but I imagine it was probably the same. Talk about the, when you're in customer conversations, where do you bring, from a GTM perspective, Where do you bring Snowflake into the conversation? >> Yeah >> Obviously, there's Redshift there, what does that look like? I imagine it follows the customer's needs, challenges. >> Exactly. >> Compelling events. >> Yeah. We're always going to work backwards from the customer need, and so that is the starting point for kindling both organizations. And so we're going to, you know, look at what they need. And from an AWS perspective, you know, if they're going with Snowflake, that's a very good thing. Right? 'Cause one of the things that we want to support is a selection experience to our AWS customers and make sure that no matter what they're doing, they're getting a very good, supported experience. And so we're always going to work backwards from the customer. And then once they make that technology decision, then we're going to support them, as I mentioned, with a whole bunch of co-sell resources. We have technical resources in the field. We have credit programs and in, you know, and, of course, we're going to market in a variety of different verticals as well with Snowflake. If you take a look at all the industry clouds that Snowflake has spun up, financial services and healthcare, and media entertainment, you know, those are all very specific use cases that are very valuable to an AWS customer. And AWS is going more and more to market on a vertical approach, and so Snowflake really just fits right in with our overall strategy. >> Right. Sounds like very tight alignment there. That mission alignment that Frank talked about yesterday. I know he was talking about that with respect to customers, but it sounds like there's a mission alignment between AWS and Snowflake. >> Mission alignment, yeah. >> I live that every week. (laughter) >> Sorry if I brought up a pain point. >> Yeah. Little bit. No. >> Guys, what's, in terms of use cases, obviously we've been here for a couple days. I'm sure you've had tremendous feedback, >> Chris G: Yeah. >> from, from customers, from partners, from the ecosystem. What's next, what can we expect to hear next? Maybe give us a preview of re:Invent in the few months. >> Preview of re:Invent. Yeah. No, well, one of the things we really want to start doing is just, you know, making the use case of, of launching Snowflake on AWS a lot easier. So what can we do to streamline those types of experiences? 'Cause a lot of times we'll find that customers, once they buy a third party solution like Snowflake, they have to then go through a whole series of configuration steps, and what can we do to streamline that? And so we're going to continue to work on that front. One of the other places that we've been exploring with Snowflake is how we work with channel partners. And, you know, when we first launched Marketplace it was really more of an app store model that was ISVs on one side and channel partners on the other, and there wasn't really a good fit for channel partners. And so four years ago we retrofitted the platform and have opened it up to resellers like an SHI or SIs like Salam or Deloitte who are top, two top SIs for Snowflake. And now they can use Marketplace to resell those technologies and also sell their services on top of that. So Snowflake's got a big, you know, practice with Salam, as I mentioned. You know, Salam can now sell through Marketplace and they can actually sell that statement of work and put that on the AWS bill all by virtue of using Marketplace, that automation platform. >> Ease of use for customers, ease of use for partners as well. >> Yes. >> And that ease of use is it's no joke. It's, it's not just a marketing term. It's measurable and it's about time-to-value, time-to-market, getting customers ahead of their competition so that they can be successful. Guys, thanks for joining me on theCUBE today. Talking about AWS and >> Nice to be back. Nice to be back in person. >> Isn't it nice to be back. It's great to be actually sitting across from another human. >> Exactly. >> Thank you so much for your insights, what you shared about the partnership and where it's going. We appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Cool. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right guys. For Chris and Chris, I'm Lisa Martin, here watching theCUBE live from Las Vegas. I'll be back with my next guest momentarily, so stick around. (Upbeat techno music)

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Bruno Aziza & Josh Klahr, AtScale - Big Data SV 17 - #BigDataSV - #theCUBE1


 

>> Announcer: Live from San Jose, California, it's The Cube. Covering Big Data, Silicon Valley, 2017. (electronic music) >> Okay, welcome back everyone, live at Silicon Valley for the big The Cube coverage, I'm John Furrier, with me Wikibon analyst George Gilbert, Bruno Aziza, who's on the CMO of AtScale, Cube alumni, and Josh Klahr VP at AtScale, welcome to the Cube. >> Welcome back. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Brian. >> Bruno, great to see you. You look great, you're smiling as always. Business is good? >> Business is great. >> Give us the update on AtScale, what's up since we last saw you in New York? >> Well, thanks for having us, first of all. And, yeah, business is great, we- I think Last time I was here on The Cube we talked about the Hadoop Maturity Survey and at the time we'd just launched the company. And, so now you look about a year out and we've grown about 10x. We have large enterprises across just about any vertical you can think of. You know, financial services, your American Express, healthcare, think about ETNA, SIGNA, GSK, retail, Home Depot, Macy's and so forth. And, we've also done a lot of work with our partner Ecosystem, so Mork's- OEM's AtScale technology which is a great way for us to get you AtScale across the US, but also internationally. And then our customers are getting recognized for the work that they are doing with AtScale. So, last year, for instance, Yellowpages got recognized by Cloudera, on their leadership award. And Macy's got a leadership award as well. So, things are going the right trajectory, and I think we're also benefitting from the fact that the industry is changing, it's maturing on the the big data side, but also there's a right definition of what business intelligence means. This idea that you can have analytics on large-scale data without having to change your visualization tools and make that work with existing stock you have in place. And, I think that's been helping us in growing- >> How did you guys do it? I mean, you know, we've talked many times in there's some secret sauce there, but, at the time when you guys were first starting it was kind of crowded field, right? >> Bruno: Yeah. >> And all these BI tools were out there, you had front end BI tools- >> Bruno: Yep. But everyone was still separate from the whole batch back end. So, what did you guys do to break out? >> So, there's two key differentiators with AtScale. The first one is we are the only platform that does not have a visualization tool. And, so people think about this as, that's a bug, that's actually a feature. Because, most enterprises have already that stuff made with traditional BI tools. And so our ability to talk to MDX and SQL types of BI tools, without any changes is a big differentiator. And then the other piece of our technology, this idea that you can get the speed, the scale and security on large data sets without having to move the data. It's a big differentiation for our enterprise to get value out of the data. They already have in Hadoop as well as non-Hadoop systems, which we cover. >> Josh, you're the VP of products, you have the roadmaps, give us a peek into what's happening with the current product. And, where's the work areas? Where are you guys going? What's the to-do list, what's the check box, and what's the innovation coming around the corner? >> Yeah, I think, to follow up on what Bruno said about how we hit the sweet spot. I think- we made a strategic choice, which is we don't want to be in the business of trying to be Tableu or Excel or be a better front end. And there's so much diversity on the back end if you look at the ecosystem right now, whether it's Spark Sequel, or Hive, or Presto, or even new cloud based systems, the sweet spot is really how do you fit into those ecosystems and support the right level of BI on top of those applications. So, what we're looking at, from a road map perspective is how do we expand and support the back end data platforms that customers are asking about? I think we saw a big white space in BI on Hadoop in particular. And that's- I'd say, we've nailed it over the past year and a half. But, we see customers now that are asking us about Google Big Query. They're asking us about Athena. I think these server-less data platforms are really, really compelling. They're going to take a while to get adoption. So, that's a big investment area for us. And then, in terms of supporting BI front ends, we're kind of doubling down on making sure our Tableau integration is great, Power BI is I think getting really big traction. >> Well, two great products, you've got Microsoft and Tableau, leaders in that area. >> The self-service BI revolution has, I would say, has won. And the business user wants their tool of choice. Where we come in is the folks responsible for data platforms on the back end, they want some level of control and consistency and so they're trying to figure out, where do you draw the line? Where do you provide standards? Where do you provide governance, and where do you let the business lose? >> All right, so, Bruno and Josh, I want you to answer the questions, be a good quiz. So, define next generation BI platforms from a functional standpoint and then under the hood. >> Yeah, there's a few things you can look at. I think if you were at the Gartner BI conference last week you saw that there was 24 vendors in the magic quadrant and I think in general people are now realizing that this is a space that is extremely crowded and it's also sitting on technology that was built 20 years ago. Now, when you talk to enterprises like the ones we work with, like, as I named earlier, you realize that they all have multiple BI tools. So, the visualization war, if you will, kind of has been set up and almost won by Microsoft and Tableau at this point. And, the average enterprise is 15 different BI tools. So, clearly, if you're trying to innovate on the visualization side, I would say you're going to have a very hard time. So, you're dealing with that level of complexity. And then, at the back end standpoint, you're now having to deal with database from the past - that's the Teradata of this world - data sources from today - Hadoop - and data sources from the future, like Google Big Query. And, so, I think the CIO answer of what is the next gen BI platform I want is something that is enabling me to simplify this very complex world. I have lots of BI tools, lots of data, how can I standardize in the middle in order to provide security, provide scale, provide speed to my business users and, you know, that's really radically going to change the space, I think. If you're trying to sell a full stack that's integrated from the bottom all the way to visualization, I don't think that's what enterprises want anymore >> Josh, under the hood, what's the next generation- you know, key leverage for the tech, and, just the enabler. >> Yeah, so, for me the end state for the next generation GI platform is a user can log in, they can point to their data, wherever that data is, it's on Prime, it's in the cloud, it's in a relational database, it's a flat file, they can design their business model. We spend a lot of time making sure we can support the creation of business models, what are the key metrics, what are the hierarchies, what are the measures, it may sound like I'm talking about OLAP. You know, that's what our history is steeped in. >> Well, faster data is coming, that's- streaming and data is coming together. >> So, I should be able to just point at those data sets and turn around and be able to analyze it immediately. On the back end that means we need to have pretty robust modeling capabilities. So that you can define those complex metrics, so you can functionally do what are traditional business analytics, period over period comparisons, rolling averages, navigate up and down business hierarchies. The optimizations should be built in. It shouldn't be the responsibility of the designer to figure out, do I need to create indeces, do I need to create aggregates, do I need to create summarization? That should all be handled for you automatically. Shouldn't think about data movement. And so that's really what we've built in from an AtScale perspective on the back end. Point to data, we're smart about creating optimal data structure so you get fast performance. And then, you should be able to connect whatever BI tool you want. You should be able to connect Excel, we can talk the MDX Query language. We can talk Sequel, we can talk Dax, whatever language you want to talk. >> So, take the syntax out of the hands of the user. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And getting in the weeds on that stuff. Make it easier for them- >> Exactly. >> And the key word I think, for the future of BI is open, right? We've been buying tools over the last- >> What do you mean by that, explain. >> Open means that you can choose whatever BI tool you want, and you can choose whatever data you want. And, as a business user there's no real compromise. But, because you're getting an open platform it doesn't mean that you have to trade off complexity. I think some of the stuff that Josh was talking about, period analysis, the type of multidimensional analysis that you need, calendar analysis, historical data, that's still going to be needed, but you're going to need to provide this in a world where the business, user, and IT organization expects that the tools they buy are going to be open to the rest of the ecosystem, and that's new, I think. >> George, you want to get a question in, edgewise? Come on. (group laughs) >> You know, I've been sort of a single-issue candidate, I guess, this week on machine learning and how it's sort of touching all the different sectors. And, I'm wondering, are you- how do you see yourselves as part of a broader pipeline of different users adding different types of value to data? >> I think maybe on the machine learning topic there is a few different ways to look at it. The first is we do use machine learning in our own product. I talked about this concept of auto-optimization. One of the things that AtScale does is it looks at end-user query patterns. And we look at those query patterns and try to figure out how can we be smart about anticipating the next thing they're going to ask so we can pre-index, or pre-materialize that data? So, there's machine learning in the context of making AtScale a better product. >> Reusing things that are already done, that's been the whole machine-learning- >> Yes. >> Demos, we saw Google Next with the video editing and the video recognition stuff, that's been- >> Exactly. >> Huge part of it. >> You've got users giving you signals, take that information and be smart with it. I think, in terms of the customer work flow - Comcast, for example, a customer of ours - we are in a data discovery phase, there's a data science group that looks at all of their set top box data, and they're trying to discover programming patterns. Who uses the Yankees' network for example? And where they use AtScale is what I would call a descriptive element, where they're trying to figure out what are the key measures and trends, and what are the attributes that contribute to that. And then they'll go in and they'll use machine learning tools on top of that same data set to come up with predictive algorithms. >> So, just to be clear there, they're hypotehsizing about, like, say, either the pattern of users that might be- have an affinity for a certain channel or channels, or they're looking for pathways. >> Yes. And I'd say our role in that right now is a descriptive role. We're supporting the descriptive element of that analytics life cycle. I think over time our customers are going to push us to build in more of our own capabilities, when it comes to, okay, I discovered something descriptive, can you come up with a model that helps me predict it the next time around? Honestly, right now people want BI. People want very traditional BI on the next generation data platform. >> Just, continuing on that theme, leaving machine learning aside, I guess, as I understand it, when we talked about the old school vendors, Care Data, when they wanted to support data scientists they grafted on some machine learning, like a parallel version of our- in the core Teradata engine. They also bought Astro Data, which was, you know, for a different audience. So, I guess, my question is, will we see from you, ultimately, a separate product line to support a new class of users? Or, are you thinking about new functionality that gets integrated into the core product. I think it's more of the latter. So, the way that we view it- and this is really looking at, like I said, what people are asking for today is, kind of, the basic, traditional BI. What we're building is essentially a business model. So, when someone uses AtScale, they're designing and they're telling us, they're asserting, these are the things I'm interested in measuring, and these are the attributes that I think might contribute to it. And, so that puts us in a pretty good position to start using, whether it's Spark on the back end, or built in machine learning algorithms on the Hadoop cluster, let's start using our knowledge of that business model to help make predictions on behalf of the customer. So, just a follow-up, and this really leaves out the machine learning part, which is, it sounds like, we went- in terms of big data we we first to archive it- supported more data retension than could do affordably with the data warehouse. Then we did the ETL offload, now we're doing more and more of the visualization, the ad-hoc stuff. >> That's exactly right. So, what- in a couple years time, what remains in the classic data warehouse, and what's in the Hadoop category? >> Well, so there is, I think what you're describing is the pure evolution, of, you know, any technology where you start with the infrastructure, you know, we've been in this for over ten years, now, you've got cloud. They are going APO and then going into the data science workbench. >> That's not official yet. >> I think we read about this, or at least they filed. But I think the direction is showing- now people are relying on the platform, the Hadoop platform, in order to build applications on top of it. And, so, I think, just like Josh is saying, the mainstream application on top of the database - and I think this is true for non-Hadoop systems as well - is always going to be analytics. Of course, data science is something that provides a lot of value, but it typically provides a lot of value to a few set of people that will then scale it out to the rest of their organization. I think if you now project out to what does this mean for the CIO and their environment, I don't think any of these platforms, Teradata or Hadoop, or Google, or Amazon or any of those, I don't think do 100% replace. And, I think that's where it becomes interesting, because you're now having to deal with a hetergeneous environment, where the business user is up, they're using Excel, they're using they're standard net application, they might be using the result of machine learning models, but they're also having to deal with the heterogeneous environment at the data level. Hadoop on Prime, Hadoop in the cloud, non-Hadoop in the cloud and non-Hadoop on Prime. And, of course that's a market that I think is very interesting for us as a simplification platform for that world. >> I think you guys are really thinking about it in a new way, and I think that's kind of a great, modern approach, let the freedom- and by the way, quick question on the Microsoft tool and Tableau, what percentage share do you think they are of the market? 50? Because you mentioned those are the two top ones. >> Are they? >> Yeah, I mentioned them, because if you look at the magic quadrant, clearly Microsoft, Power BI and Tableau have really shot up all the way to the right. >> Because it's easy to use, and it's easy to work with data. >> I think so, I think- look, from a functionality standpoint, you see Tableau's done a very good job on the visualization side. I think, from a business standpoint, and a business model execution, and I can talk from my days at Microsoft, it's a very great distribution model to get thousands and thousands of users to use power BI. Now, the guys that we didn't talk about on the last magic quadrant. People who are like Google Data Studio, or Amazon Quicksite, and I think that will change the ecosystem as well. Which, again, is great news for AtScale. >> More muscle coming in. >> That's right. >> For you guys, just more rising tide floats all boats. >> That's right. >> So, you guys are powering it. >> That's right. >> Modern BI would be safe to say? >> That's the idea. The idea is that the visualization is basically commoditized at this point. And what business users want and what enterprise leaders want is the ability to provide freedom and openness to their business users and never have to compromise security, speed and also the complexity of those models, which is what we- we're in the business of. >> Get people working, get people productive faster. >> In whatever tool they want. >> All right, Bruno. Thanks so much. Thanks for coming on. AtScale. Modern BI here in The Cube. Breaking it down. This is The Cube covering bid data SV strata Hadoop. Back with more coverage after this short break. (electronic music)

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