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Events + Announcements
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Self-Service Data Preparation Without the Risk
Prophecy Introduces Fully Governed Data Preparation for Databricks SQL
Data Engineering
9
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Data Pipelines: Optimize and Modernize Your Data Strategy
Explore best practices and modern examples in data pipeline strategy. Learn to boost business success with scalable and reliable data solutions.
ETL modernization
6
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Understanding ETL Modernization
Everything you need to know to accelerate ETL modernization
Data Transformation Copilot
3
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Data engineers and business data users: end the back-and-forth
We’ve written before about the challenge of having too few data engineers. There is another problem.
Events + Announcements
5
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5 Takeaways from the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit
Prophecy and data leaders embrace the GenAI moment at Gartner 2025
Data Strategy
2
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Data Team
Data teams and analysts are inadvertently siloed into different parts of their organizations. These are the 5 data dysfunctions that breed this situation.
ETL modernization
5
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3 ways Prophecy modernizes ETL on Databricks
By modernizing the ETL process on Databricks, Prophecy can provide organizations with a more agile, scalable, and cost-effective solution for managing their data.
Data Engineering
5
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Survey says… GenAI is reshaping data teams
Our new survey shows that data leaders are embracing GenAI and bracing for new challenges
Events + Announcements
4
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3 Ways to Connect with Prophecy at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit!
Join the Prophecy team in Orlando to see how genAI is reshaping data teams
Events + Announcements
5
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Prophecy takes in $47M, to scale up and reimagine data integration with AI
Databricks Productivity
6
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Airflow and Databricks: Shorten the Learning Curve with Prophecy
Maximize productivity without the complexity.
Data Transformation Copilot
4
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The Case for Data Transformation Copilots
How copilots will change data transformation, and in the process evolve beyond conversational interfaces
Events + Announcements
5
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AI, the Texas Rangers, and Aetion at Databricks Data + AI Summit 2024
Prophecy brings championship winning data, critical healthcare data, and AI for data transformation to DAIS 2024
Events + Announcements
5
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Announcing Prophecy University
Inaugural course addresses the growing data engineering skills gap through agile, self-paced training
Data Transformation Copilot
5
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Too much data work. Too few data engineers. How to make it scale.
Struggling with data transformation? Hiring more data engineers is not the answer. Learn how low-code data transformation unlocks the full potential of your users and your data.
Events + Announcements
3
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Modern Data’s Stuck
Events + Announcements
5
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Announcing Prophecy Package Builder and Package Hub: Data engineering, standardized.
With the release of Prophecy 3.2, we are thrilled to announce two game-changing capabilities: Prophecy Package Builder and Prophecy Package Hub.
Data Transformation Copilot
8
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How to build generative AI applications on enterprise data
Discover how to build generative AI applications leveraging enterprise data. Learn to identify use cases, choose effective models, and navigate challenges with our comprehensive guide.
Data Transformation Copilot
5
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Prompt engineering vs. fine tuning: Which approach is right for your enterprise generative AI strategy?
In this blog, we'll take a look at the differences between prompt engineering and fine-tuning, and provide insights into each approach
Data Transformation Copilot
3
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Enterprise data and the taming of the Generative AI frontier
Companies can train small, domain-specific language models in a matter of hours or days rather than weeks or months provided they have governed and accurate training inputs.
Data Transformation Copilot
4
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SQL models are easy to deploy and orchestrate with Prophecy
Stop getting stuck managing SQL files, start making progress for your business today
Data Transformation Copilot
8
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How HealthVerity leverages Prophecy for unmatched data privacy and compliance
Data Transformation Copilot
9
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Introducing the Prophecy Generative AI Platform
Build powerful gen AI applications on private enterprise data in just hours
Data Transformation Copilot
5
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Introducing Prophecy Data Copilot
Unlock the power of generative AI in data engineering with Prophecy’s Data Copilot.
Data Transformation Copilot
6
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Getting started with low-code SQL
Empowering business data users to quickly and easily build scalable data pipelines on the lakehouse
Data Transformation Copilot
5
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Hitting data driven home runs: How the Texas Rangers win by harnessing Prophecy in their data mesh architecture
Learn how the Texas Rangers use Prophecy and Databricks Lakehouse as the foundation of their data mesh architecture to gain a competitive advantage with low-code data engineering.
Data Transformation Copilot
11
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Empower all business data users with interactive SQL development
Leverage Prophecy’s low-code approach and integration with dbt Core to build SQL data pipelines without compromising on engineering best practices
Events + Announcements
5
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Announcing Prophecy 3.0: low-code SQL transformations
Discover how Prophecy 3.0 arms all data users with low-code SQL, so they can quickly and easily build scalable data pipelines, resulting in highly impactful data products.
Data Transformation Copilot
10
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Financial reporting simplified: Working capital forecasting
In this blog, we learn about the concept of financial reporting, its importance, the various challenges faced while generating an efficient and reliable financial report and how Prophecy makes the complete process easy sailing.
Events + Announcements
5
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Prophecy raises Series A to industrialize data refining
Prophecy is delighted to announce we raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners, with participation from SignalFire, Dig Ventures and Berkeley SkyDeck.
Data Engineering
3
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Data Engineering Battle: Python vs SQL++ vs Visual=Code
In a Data Engineering Battle, Prophecy presented a complete, low-code data engineering product with a session for low-code Spark, low-code Airflow and column-level lineage that hundreds attended. Here are the poll results.
Data Engineering
3
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Prophecy SaaS: Low-code data engineering for your Spark
Announcing the launch of Prophecy SaaS!
Data Engineering
4
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ELT is not the disruption — data engineering is!
The disruption is agile software practices in data engineering made usable for the many. Allow me to explain.
Events + Announcements
2
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Announcing Prophecy's public beta!
We're excited to share what we have built with you. Sign up and let us know what you think!
ETL modernization
5
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Five Predictions: Data Integration in 2025
The clock strikes noon on Shadow IT
ETL modernization
6
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Ab Initio to Spark: Modernize your ETL and lower costs
Prophecy also provides a highly automated replacement for legacy ETL products to accelerate the journey to open source and cloud computing.
Events + Announcements
4
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Success With AI Takes Data, Big Data!
Prophecy team was out in force at one of the data world’s biggest events
Events + Announcements
5
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Data Intelligence and AI Copilots at the Databricks World Tour
Accelerating data transformation with AI to deliver insights
ETL modernization
5
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Gliding into the data wonderland
Bringing data teams together for the holidays
ETL modernization
5
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ETL Explained: From Basic Concepts to Modern Data Transformation Solutions
Unlock the power of ETL. Discover how this data process revolutionizes business intelligence and drives informed decision-making.
ETL modernization
8
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ELT: Transforming Data Pipelines for the AI Era
Unlock the power of modern data pipelines with ELT
Events + Announcements
4
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Prophecy and all things Data + AI Summit - that’s a wrap!
Get an exciting recap from Databricks Data + AI summit including Prophecy’s announcements around low-code data engineering and generative AI app development
Events + Announcements
3
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AI, Copilot and Authors at Databricks Data and AI Summit 2024
Prophecy’s booth will be hopping with book signings, Copilots, and the latest on data and AI
ETL modernization
4
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Weigh Your Options As You Move Off Alteryx
Explore alternatives to Alteryx for modern data prep. Explore options and how Prophecy delivers scalability and openness to modernize data preparation.
Databricks Productivity
5
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Load Data into Databricks Delta Lake in 5 Minutes
Discover how Prophecy revolutionizes your data operations.
Events + Announcements
4
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Delivering AI and Data Value at CDOIQ 2024
Prophecy attended the CDOIQ Symposium last week in Boston.
Events + Announcements
6
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Databricks Data + AI Summit 2024: AI Shapes a Copilot Future
Databricks held their annual Data+AI Summit in San Francisco last week at Moscone Center.
Data Transformation Copilot
6
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How to implement ETL on Apache Spark
Learn key steps to follow, how to define the ETL pipeline using Spark APIs and dataframes, and best practices for testing and optimizing pipelines for maximum efficiency
Events + Announcements
3
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Event spotlight: Prophecy at Data + AI Summit
Bringing the power of low-code data engineering to the masses
Data Transformation Copilot
15
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PySpark hands-on tutorial using a visual IDE
Let's get started with PySpark using a visual interface to generate open-source Spark code.
ETL modernization
4
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Cloud data engineering on Spark — factors for transitioning to the stack
For enterprises, navigating the cloud transition can be tricky. This describes the two paradigms for ETL in the cloud, and the factors to consider when choosing one.
Databricks Productivity
10
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Deep dive into Prophecy for Databricks
Just a few days ago, we announced a Prophecy for Databricks. In this blog post — Part 2 of that announcement — we dig into how Prophecy makes data engineering simple for any data practitioner on Databricks.
Events + Announcements
5
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DATA+AI Summit 2021: Poll results and takeaways for low-code products
Prophecy presented a complete, low-code data engineering product at the Data + AI Summit 2021. Hundreds attended our sessions on low-code Spark, low-code Airflow and column-level lineage. Here are the results from the polls we conducted there.
Data Transformation Copilot
6
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Be more productive on Spark with low-code
Learn about the four main pillars of productive, powerful, low-code data engineering on Spark. See all the pieces in action!
6
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Apache Spark™ vs Snowflake: The cloud data engineering (ETL) debate!
We discuss the two cloud data engineering architectures and advise which one to pick as you move your ETL to the cloud.
5
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Scala packrat parser combinators for DSLs
Parser combinators allow you to develop sophisticated parsers quickly and see how to use them.