Partner Ecosystem Updates

Finally, Google Cloud underlined some enhancements to its partner program.

1. Google Cloud Ready – Big Query. This represents a new designation that recognizes partner solutions that have met specific functional and interoperability requirements. Google Cloud says more than 25 launch partners are part of the initiative, but it called out Informatica and Fivetran. Fivetran says it moves an average of more than eight terabytes each day for customers using Google Cloud BigQuery data warehouse.

2. Analytics Hub Preview. Now in preview, this capability lets partners make datasets more accessible to customers.

3. Built with BigQuery. Google Cloud says more than 700 independent software vendors (ISVs) have built their applications on BigQuery.

4. Data Cloud Alliance. Google Cloud unveiled a new initiative, the Data Cloud Alliance. Inaugural members include Deloitte, Starburst, Redis, Confluent, Databricks, Fivetran, Neo4j, Elastic, MongoDB and Dataiku.