dbt Labs is redefining how data teams work with SQL. Instead of waiting on complex ETL processes, dbt lets data analysts and data engineers build production-ready transformations directly in the warehouse, using code, version control, and CI/CD. This community-driven approach puts power back in the hands of practitioners while maintaining governance and scalability for enterprise use.
With a rapidly growing open-source community and an enterprise-grade cloud platform, dbt is at the heart of the modern data stack. It’s the go-to solution for teams who want faster analytics, higher quality data, and the confidence that comes from transparent, testable transformations.
Learn more

Plauti builds native data-quality applications that run entirely within your CRM environment. No data is sent to external servers or third-party processing services, and there’s no parallel infrastructure to maintain. Your data stays where it belongs: under your control, behind your security perimeter, governed by your own access model.
For Salesforce, Plauti addresses the full lifecycle of data quality:
> Prevention at entry: Real-time duplicate detection alerts users as they type, blocking bad data before it’s created.
> Detection from external sources: Identify duplicates coming from integrations, imports, and APIs, so data quality doesn’t degrade over time.
> Batch remediation at scale: Run powerful batch jobs to find, review, and merge existing duplicates, with full audit trails for compliance and governance.
> Contact data verification: Validate email addresses and phone numbers before they’re saved to reduce bounces and failed outreach.
All processing runs natively on Salesforce infrastructure. Plauti respects your existing profiles, roles, and permission sets, so there’s no separate login, no data synchronization layer, and no new security surface to harden.
For Microsoft Dynamics 365, Plauti provides similar control over duplicates with real-time alerts, API-driven detection, batch processing, and cross-entity matching. It’s designed for CRM admins and data stewards who need direct, immediate control over data quality without waiting on developers, external consultants, or long IT ticket queues.
Learn more
IBM Cognos Analytics
Cognos Analytics with Watson brings BI to a new level with AI capabilities that provide a complete, trustworthy, and complete picture of your company. They can forecast the future, predict outcomes, and explain why they might happen. Built-in AI can be used to speed up and improve the blending of data or find the best tables for your model. AI can help you uncover hidden trends and drivers and provide insights in real-time. You can create powerful visualizations and tell the story of your data. You can also share insights via email or Slack. Combine advanced analytics with data science to unlock new opportunities. Self-service analytics that is governed and secures data from misuse adapts to your needs. You can deploy it wherever you need it - on premises, on the cloud, on IBM Cloud Pak®, for Data or as a hybrid option.
Learn more
Looker
Looker reinvents the way business intelligence (BI) works by delivering an entirely new kind of data discovery solution that modernizes BI in three important ways. A simplified web-based stack leverages our 100% in-database architecture, so customers can operate on big data and find the last mile of value in the new era of fast analytic databases. An agile development environment enables today’s data rockstars to model the data and create end-user experiences that make sense for each specific business, transforming data on the way out, rather than on the way in. At the same time, a self-service data-discovery experience works the way the web works, empowering business users to drill into and explore very large datasets without ever leaving the browser. As a result, Looker customers enjoy the power of traditional BI at the speed of the web.
Learn more