Glocklin is going to be presenting the power lightning bolt and responsibility stress of unicode adoption sparkle. Please make a welcome. I know I'm the only person keeping you from lunch. So I won't have too many pictures of food, but I can't promise that. So hi. I love emoji. I love how broken it is.  You should be using unicode. Unicode is awesome. Unicode gives us a whole lot of power in order to communicate with nearly every written language that ever has been and is currently in use in human society today. If you're going to be using unicode, you may see stuff like this, the 16-bit representation or the 32-bit representation.  I'm going to be referring to these throughout the talk. In unicode, you can have an A. An A is represented by this character. Every computer can see this code and say, ah, that's an A. You also have the ability to have a Japanese ah, with this particular code. We also have the ability to combine certain characters. So we can have an E and we can have an accent and you put it together and you have an E and an accent. That's unicode in a nutshell. And it works. Mostly. You can communicate between computers in different countries and you can have your code that's being sent around not be mangled if everyone's using unicode. You may not be able to read it if you don't know Russian, but your computers can. The problem is this doesn't work for Japanese. I say the Japanese, not Japanese because unicode can handle hiragana, katakana, kanji can handle a whole bunch of Asian texts. But what it doesn't handle? Well, it didn't until recently is emoji. The Japanese love these little tiny characters that they had on their mobile phones back in the 90s. You could send a little picture of a horse or a penguin to your friends. This was all implemented by the Japanese network carriers, so your telecoms and such. None of them used the same codes. These were all in private character space. So none of the characters matched. That all got fixed and what they did was once they consolidated it all, they went to the unicode consortium. Isn't that a magical word? The unicode consortium.  There's a million character spaces, a bit over a million, so you can have all the characters you want. The Japanese telcos tried to get emoji into unicode back in the early 2000s and unicode went. No, this emoji thing is probably a fad with you lot. It came back in 2007 and it got added and no one noticed until Apple came along. Who here has an iPhone? Who here has emoji on their iPhone? Yeah, emoji. Apple was creating the iPhone and putting it into the Japanese market and they realized that hey, we should probably add this emoji thing because the Japanese market like it. So iOS 2, 3 ish in Japan added this as an extra for the Japanese SIM cards only and the Japanese loved and they bought all the iPhone. About iOS 5 also they decided to just add this as a hidden feature on everyone's iPhone. So story goes that one day somebody in the US picked up their new shiny iPhone that had iOS 5 playing around with the settings and went, huh, I can send a picture of poop to my friends. And they sent it and someone received it and said, hey, how'd you do that? And so it starts spreading about because it started with the iPhone in Western society. People attribute emoji to Apple, but it's not. Thing is, this is back in 2010. So we've had emoji for a while now, but there have been updates to unicode since 2010. These are all standard emoji. We've got flowers, we've got penguins, we've got maple leaves. We also have squirrels now or a chipmunk. We also have the wonderful Balkan sign, which is wonderful. And, you know, paper clips and such. We also have at the end there are man in business suit levitating. Who here remembers Wingdings? Yeah. So in 2014, Wingdings and webdings were put into the unicode standard for backwards compatibility. Wingdings and webdings were Microsoft inventions and one or two engineers were the only people that had a say in what characters went in. And that man in business suit levitating is apparently a reference to a SCAR record label logo. So now we have man in business suit levitating. So that's cool. Last year we also had more emoji added, so now you can get tacos because tacos. Unicorn, Australian smiley is also in there, really important. But the one on the end here is of significance because it's coloured. This is actually a combination of two different characters, the rock on and a Fitzpatrick modifier. So there are six different colour skin tones. If you don't use a skin tone, it's supposed to turn up as a neutral colour. Simpsons yellow is not neutral, but that's fine. But when you combine them together, if your vendor supports it, it's supposed to colourize. And this will happen for any human related emoji. And guess what?  Use Python 3. Python 3 is good. It just works with emoji. In Python 3, you can import unicode data and you can ask it what the unicode character is. So in this case, if I import unicode data, unicode data.name and have the snake emoji comes up a snake. And I can also go the other way by using this slash and escape sequence, which is good for unicode and gravitational fields, escape sequences. This is all new in Python 3.3, so if you're using that, you're fine. You can also take the emoji and work out what its unicode escape representation is using the unicode escape encoding. And you can also go back again by using the slash U instead of the slash N from earlier. Python 3, it just works. Python 2 and unicode... Use Python 3. So this is where it gets complicated though, because we can make computers understand unicode pretty fine. It's the representations of the glyphs that get rushed. So back when I was describing what happened with Apple, people were sending poops to Android and Android didn't have emoji at the time. So they had to use it to keep up with Apple. They had to implement it all. This is the yellow heart. It is yellow. It looks yellow even on the washed out screen. The image on the left is the standardised image for it. And because it's black and white, what we're seeing here is the same sort of representation of colours that we see in British heraldy shields. This is ore. This is supposed to be gold. So gold yellow. This is yellow. Android 4.3 did this. That's supposed to be a colour representation. It's not supposed to be stubble. But it doesn't stop there. As soon as you start trying to compare the same character across all the different vendor implementations, you get some weird things happening. This is supposed to be flushed face. This is for Apple, Twitter, emoji one and Android. If I'm going to send one of those to my friends, they might pick it up as being, ah, I've done something wrong. I'm shocked. I'm embarrassed. But on Android, it looks like I'm trying to take credit for something. This has tripped me up far too many times. We also have this. Can anyone have a guess what this is supposed to be? Microservices. No, it's hugging. Yeah. Exactly. The one on the end is emoji one, which is the first purely open licenced kick-started emoji set. That one looks right, but none of these really mesh with me because I'm used to this as hugging. MSN Messenger represent. Yeah. Also, ha. When you clap, we've done a bit of clapping already in these last couple of days. When you clap, you're supposed to put your palms together and your thumbs facing the same way. The one on the end is Windows. Try not to do that too hard because if you've got knuckles or rings on it really starts to hurt. Yeah. They have fixed that though, so that's good. But yeah, that's Windows 8. Sometimes it's just like, hmm, what could this be? Any guesses? Pond. Yeah. So you can see where all this misinterpretation starts to come in, especially because these are all question mark. The one on the end is Facebook's implementation of question mark. This entire scientific paper is about this. This is grinning versus grimacing. The only difference you see here is the eyes. The one on the left is supposed to be grinning. The one on the right is grimace. Blissfully happy already to fight varying interpretations of emoji by the University of Minnesota. Goes into great detail where they did a great big survey across all the different vendors from a whole range of people. And they showed that yeah, people get confused about this. So now it's scientific fact. So how do we get new emoji anyway? If you wanted to, you know, add in say kiwi fruit or something. What you can do is anyone can submit a proposal to the Unicode consortium. But it has to go by some guidelines because there are guidelines for these things. If it's the backwards compatibility, you're great. The one on the end here is the Yahoo Messenger cowboy, which is now in Unicode. So that completes the set because backwards compatibility. Also, if you're going for completeness, there was one version of Unicode which didn't have the complete zodiac set. Okay. Also, if it's really frequently requested such as unicorns, it'll get in. The internet. Things that won't get you accepted is if it's too overly specific. So we already have wine, martini and tropical fruit drink. Getting an old fashioned in there probably won't happen. Also, you're never, never, never allowed any logos or brands. Yep. So you can see there how Apple's implementation is now out of date for the headphones. Topical. Also, absolutely no fads or memes. So, you know, the Star Trek stuff is, yeah, okay, it's 50 years old now. So that's fine. With all these new emoji though, you're going to have problems with backwards compatibility if your device, your computer, your operating system doesn't support the new versions. You're going to get what is known as Moji Bake or Moji Bake because I'm a Westerner and I absolutely am horrible at pronunciation and I like to mash all my vowels together. If you're using newer emoji and you're sending it to someone who doesn't have the new Unicode standard, you're going to get either wonderful diamond shaped boxes with question marks, empty boxes or nothing at all. So, that's going to be fun. Did anyone notice the sign outside when you came into this room which had my talk title on it? That actually worked this time. I'm impressed. They're using some sort of Windows 8 out there and I can tell because of the emoji. So they're probably running IE and let's not try to, let's be nice to the conference venue and not try to interact with their systems too much. One place that Unicode has to work though is domains. This is a valid URL. Spoon.ws. Spoon is one of the new Unicode 9 which happens to be one of the free URLs with only one emoji and I have registered it. Spoon Theory is all about people with physical issues having to have an amount of energy to be able to get through their day. And I have a link to this and I thought it was a good example of how to use an emoji in URLs. But for all this to work, there needs to be a standard. That standard is RFC 3980, 3492. And what it is, is it allows you to take emoji or Unicode and pass it into ASCII only. The actual algorithm for this is complicated but what it means is you get this Xn double hyphen URL. So if you're going to say Chinese URLs, you may see the Xn in there as well. So how do we actually get emoji into things in the first place? If you're on mobile, normally, at least for Android, you have a little smiley button near your enter key. There's a separate button in iPhones which I don't have but apparently there's a separate button just for emoji. If you're using a Mac, you can press the command control space and it brings up a nice little dialog box. Other platforms, your mileage may vary but there is a Python solution for this now. Kenneth Wrights who you may know from wonderful things such as requests now has emoji for humans. EM keyboard is pip installable and you can use the Unicode name to search and it will copy it automatically into your clipboard for you. So you can have cake sparkles all the time. Or instead of using all these soft keyboard options, you could make an entire emoji keyboard. Tom Scott, an English hacker, decided to put together 14 mechanical keyboards, a little bit of Lewis Script, a little bit of Auto Hockey and made an emoji keyboard. It filled a desk and it worked and it was awesome. There's a video online, The Art of the Bodge, which is really interesting. This is the same gentleman who also made an emoji-only network. You can tell how well that went. It got shut down about a year ago now. You can imagine why. Anyway, in the web, I am an operations engineer. I spend a lot of time making web stuff, cloud. In the web space, if you're using say Twitter or something, you have so many emoji. But if you're on GitHub or Slack, you use short codes. So if I want to have cake, if I'm on GitHub, I can use cake colon. And I get cake. And this is great because I don't have to have an emoji keyboard locally. I can just type out what I want. However, if you're on HipChat, instead of using colons, you use brackets. But then you get cake. But cake is not equal to cake. The implementations of cake are different across different social network-y thingies. And that's really annoying. You also get issues such as on GitHub, you have the Shippet Squirrel. Shippet Squirrel is not an emoji. PartyParat is not an emoji. Sorry. You could apply for PartyParat to become an emoji, except emoji cannot be animated. So you can't get the thing going. But that's fine. There's cross-platform compatibility issues here. So it is a dodgy hack, but it works mostly. If you have this on your system and you have any say in how it's implemented, please let me disable your auto correct. Please. Because there are so many times where a simple smiley changes into a really, really, really happy smiley. Which is also great if you're wanting to do, say, IPv6 stuff where colon 100, colon will turn into 100. Also, misinterpretation. I see the colon dollar as embarrassment. Most platforms see it as money mouth. I don't want to know how this person got money in their eyes. Anyway. Reading them back. So if your platform supports it, there is native support in your system. It will look different between mobiles, between browsers, between operating systems. However, on the web, you have absolutely complete control if you're the ones creating your website. If I have a suggestion, just one suggestion that you take away from today. Use fallback. You cannot rely on your user systems being able to present the same emoji as what you experience. The next slide is the only slide in this presentation to have actual emoji. The rest have been images because I wanted to show vendor differences. I'm running Ubuntu. That's how emoji renders on Ubuntu 16.4 as standard. They're black and white. They look like windings a little bit. There's no color. I don't know what the second last one on the top row is supposed to be. I have an entire website which has this and fallback option so you can see how your emoji look. Glazun.com Unicode test. The one on the end is supposed to be a Kiwi fruit, but this machine doesn't support Unicode 9. So that's fun. If you want to do the basics of this, there is the Twitter client-side implementation of this called twi-emoji, which replaces the Unicode characters with just the image. However, I think we can raise the bar here. What we can do is we can use a combination of highlights, mouseovers, and web accessibility to make it universally readable and discoverable what the emoji is supposed to be. So we can have something like this. Tumble glass, often depicted as whiskey, is now an emoji. Yay! But what we can do is we can have this sort of set up with our image tag, alt text, title, and RE label. Use PNGs. SPGs are not universally supported across all browsers yet. PNGs are. Use alt text as the actual character itself. With alt text, if you copy, highlight, and paste it, it will copy whatever's in the alt text. The alt text and the title text are different. The title text is the mouseover. So if you have the description of what the emoji is supposed to be in your title text, people can tell what it is. And also for extra bonus points for people with screen readers, describe what the emoji is. So then they don't just have breaks in the middle of what they're trying to read out. I have a proof of concept implementation of this, which is PIP installable, and is also a Django model template renderer widget thingy called EmojiVicate. It will do all that stuff for you automatically. And it's all server-side because it uses the Unicode data implementation. If you're going to be doing this client-side, the Unicode data you need to have all those titles is several megabytes. So keeping it server-side makes sense for performance reasons. And also if you're going to be doing any web stuff at all, please make sure that either your framework or you are manually putting in your char set, because by default it'll be ASCII and it won't work. So the future. We're nearly done. It's nearly lunchtime. Yay! Guess what? We got new emojis a couple of months ago. We have such timeless classics now as shrug and facepalm. There's kiwi fruit, as I mentioned. There's also a duck. Oh, and there's an egg. I've seen chicken since 2010, so now you know which came first. But a special mention here, I want to point out the shrug. This is now one character. This is what you used to have to use. This is how much data you used to have to use. There are macarons. This is on three different code tables. There's basic Latin, Latin, supplemental, and Japanese. Now you can just use one. And I think that this is a really useful way to save those precious bytes. There are also some Unicode that are going to be released next year, including some chopsticks and the Stephen Colbert emoji as it's been called. But there are also a whole lot of updates that have been happening recently with Android, with Microsoft, with Facebook. The flushing face from earlier. These are the different implementation of this across Android versions. I don't know why the last one looks like a duck now. If anyone's been using Facebook, you would have seen these wonderful Van Gogh style things happening. Depending on where you are on Facebook though, you will still see the old ones. So sometimes your question mark will be an exclamation point. Windows. Windows, the new anniversary edition fixes their emoji. So they actually look like emoji now instead of whatever those were. And they fix the clapping as well. So that's great. iOS 10, the new one that's coming out, fixes the issue with the grinning face. Now it actually looks grinning. This is the same emoji on different versions of iOS. We also have a great big update with the Unicode 9 standard with our zero width joiners. So now, if you have a white flag and a rainbow, you can get a pride flag. This is a vendor thing that can be implemented right now. You don't have to have Unicode 9 because both those two are pre-Unicode 9. But you use the combination characters in there and it will work. Most vendors are implementing this as a single click button on most soft keyboards. So you don't even have to worry about trying to put the extra characters in there. There's also been an accepted update to the Unicode standard to do with gender pairing. So now you can have a female policeman, female construction worker, female golfer, which is great. You can also have the male equivalents of getting a haircut, a grumpy information person and like. So some takeaways. There is a lot of power and speech and emojis just add that little bit of fun in there. But they have to be implemented responsibly. As a general rule, don't just substitute with emoji. Use words probably English. Your language may vary. But just have some fun with them. There's nothing wrong with a bit of sparkle. And thank you so much for your time. Thank you for that.  Have you used emoji, which I say means something, but you use it with another man like your own? I don't know. Misen protected like with a with intention. There are many emoji that people use to represent things that they're not supposed to be. This is a thing that you need to discuss with the person that you're sharing these emoji with. Because otherwise they're prone to misinterpretation. They might think that you're going to make a vegetable lasagna instead of eggplant. Anybody else? Well, it's lunchtime. So let's give Katie a round of applause and then go and find something to eat. Yay sparkle.


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My main concern is that we're not going to reach herd immunity because of vaccine hesitancy. And I know that's hard for a lot of people to believe who desperately want the vaccine right now. And they're thinking, oh, well, it's just a small percentage of people who are actually anti-vaxxers. And that's true. There is the anti-science, anti-vaxxer contingent. But I think that there are many more people, millions of people, who for whatever reason have concerns about the vaccine, who just don't know what's in it for them. And we need to make it clear to them that the vaccine is the ticket back to pre-pandemic life. And the window to do that is really narrowing.  They're reopening at 100%. And we have a very narrow window to tie reopening policy to vaccination status. Because otherwise, if everything is reopened, then what's the carrot going to be? How are we going to incentivize people to actually get the vaccine? So that's why I think the CDC and the Biden administration needs to come out a lot bolder and say, if you are vaccinated, you can do all these things. Here are all these freedoms that you have. Because otherwise, people are going to go out and enjoy these freedoms anyway. And I fear a situation of coming into the fall where we never reach herd immunity. And then we get hit by the next surge of COVID-19 in the fall. Something that we could have prevented if we just got people vaccinated now.


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This is Brett and this 2017 GMC Sierra 2500 Crew Cab Short Box SLT is stock number 12601Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy duty truck headquarters. This 2017 GMC Sierra 2500 has the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by Elmer Service Shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. Has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off. This truck is 100% ready to go. We're going to go inside, underneath, start it up, take a look under the hood and all that good stuff in this video. Cardinal red is the color, same color as red hot on the Chevy's. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the truck before seeing it in person. If you like the video and how we do things here at Summit Automotive in the upper right hand part of the screen is a subscribe button to our YouTube channel. Click that and then click the bell notifications, you'll get updates on the videos we do each and every day. This one comes with the 20 inch polished aluminum rims, excellent shape on those rims, and it has Goodyear Wrangler SRA tires, these are LT 265 60R 20s. These tires have almost all the tread left, I'd say 90% or better on all the tires on this truck. The frame and underbody is in nice shape, looks like it has been undercoated, we did not undercoat it, but somebody did before we got it. Front fender is in excellent shape, it does have the HID headlamps, the LED running lights, factory fog lights, front bumper parking sensors, front bumper is in excellent shape, I didn't see any dents or dings on there, get this nice kind of billet grill on there, has the Coal induction hood, that's a true Coal induction hood, I'll show you that in just a little bit, and it does have the cab lights up top, passenger side front fender, no dents or dings on there, looks really good, and for full disclosure, this passenger side rim, no scuffs or scrapes. As you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos, so if you are far away, or even if you're close by and just can now make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at, before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. Back rim, excellent condition as well, and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Frame and underbody is in very nice shape, has all the remaining factory exhaust, looks really good, undercarriage looks good, cab corners lower rockers are in excellent shape, and it comes with a really nice set of factory chrome step bars. Pass in the side box, I didn't see any dents or dings on there, and as you come around to the back of the vehicle, rear bumper is in great shape, it does have the back of parking sensors, rear bumper steps, and full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch, four pin, and seven pin wiring. The tailgate is in excellent condition as well, I didn't see any dents or dings on there, and it does come with a Truxedo, low pro tonneau cover, that's a roll-up tonneau, I got the same one on my truck, very nice tonneau cover, and no rips or tears on that. Comes with a very nice spraying bed liner as well, fifth wheel and gooseneck hitch prep package, and you do get LED bed lighting up there, there's one on the other side as well, a couple side box tie downs, and seven pin wiring for a gooseneck or fifth wheel hitch. That bed liner is on the tailgate as well. Tailgate is very light, so the easy lift assist tailgate, and as you go down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger's side, no dents or dings on the box, and this back rim is in very nice shape as well, I didn't see any scuffs or scrapes on there. Down the rest is side of the truck, the doors look really good, I didn't see any major dents or dings. It does have the telescopic tow mirrors, they have built in directional signals, LED side lights, they telescope out like so, they also fold in, these are power fold-in mirrors. Inside the SLT package gives you the black leather interior, there are no rips, there are no tears on the seats, they are in excellent condition. Both these front seats are heated and cooled, it does come with a set of factory carpeted floor mats, auto headlamps, turned out four wheel drive factory brake controller, tilt and telescopic steering wheel, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, memory driver's seat, and like I said before these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides, set both sides so that you know that all the options are working properly. Also has a nice wood grain trim and the Bose sound. We'll hop inside, check out the miles radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 37,011 miles, instrument cluster is very nice and clean, you do get a compass display on there. Comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel, Bluetooth and information center controls on the right, cruise controls, forward collision warning controls and heated steering wheel button on the left. Comes with the Allison six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift and this one has the GMC IntelliLink radio. You get the factory navigation system on there, AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. And then it does have a projection manager where you can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay and project your phone up there. Does have a CD player as well, heated and cooled seat buttons, dual climate controls, power pedals, stability control. That's for your cargo lamps. That's also how you turn on your LED bed lighting and LED side lights, parking sensors, lane departure warning, downhill, sys control and factory exhaust break down here. You get two 12 volt power points, two USBs and then a 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in. Passenger side, format and seat are in excellent condition. No rips or tears on there. Looks really good. Headliner is in nice shape and you do get homelink buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems, map lights, on-star and SOS buttons in the rear of your mirror. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood. It does have the cell phone wireless cell phone charge pad as well. The back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips, no tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Fixed glass rear window with the built-in rear defrost. Seats are in really nice shape, factory floor mats back here as well. And the carpeting is in very nice condition. Side curtain airbags on this truck too. And the bottoms of the doors all look really good. We'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to verify the quality and condition of this truck all the way around. There are those HID headlamps, the LED running lights, they are very bright as well. Under the hood we have the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine, L5P, 445 horsepower. And Chebe is very clean, runs very smooth. And once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. This one is 100% ready to go. There is your emissions sticker. That cobalt hood comes in the front there, comes down the side into the air intake right there. 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From the SiliconANGLE Media office in Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE. Now, here's your host, Stu Miniman. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman and welcome to a special edition of CUBE Conversations here in our Boston area studio. Happy to welcome to the program, first of all, to my right, a first-time guest of the program, Drew Clark, who's the Chief Strategy Officer at CLIC, and welcome back to the program, Itamar Ankaryon, who's a Senior Vice President of Enterprise Data Integration, now with CLIC, but a new title due to the acquisition of Atunity. So thanks so much for joining us, gentlemen. Great to be here. All right, so Drew, Atunity, we've had on the program anytime. We have at CLIC on the program, but maybe for audience, just give us a quick level set on CLIC and the acquisition is some exciting news. So let's start there and we'll get into it. Sure, thanks, Stu. And CLIC, we're a 25-year-old company in the business analytics space. A lot of people know about our products. CLIC View, CLIC Sense. We have 50,000 customers around the world and from large companies to kind of small organizations. Yeah, all right, so we talk a lot about data on our program. When I look through some of the CLIC documentation, it resonated with me a bit because when we talk about digital transformation on our program, the key thing that differentiates the most between the old way of doing things, the modern is I need to be data-driven, I need to make my decision, the analytics piece of that. So, Itamar, let's start there and talk about, other than the logo on your card changes, what's the same, what's different going forward for you? Well, first of all, we're excited about this merger and the opportunity that we see in the market because there's a huge demand for data, predominantly for doing new types of analytics, business intelligence, data is fueling digital transformation. And part of the main challenge customers have, organizations have is making more data available faster and putting it in the hands of the people who need it. So on our part, coming from a community, we spend the last few years innovating and creating technologies that help organizations modernize how they create new data architectures to support faster data, more agility in terms of enabling data for analytics. And now together with CLIC, we can continue to expand that. And then at the end of the day, provide more data to more people. So, Drew, it's interesting. There's been no shortage of data out there. For decades been talking about the data growth, but actually getting access to our data, it's in silos more than ever, it's spread out all over the day. We say the challenge of our time is really building distributed architectures and data is really all over the place.  So, explain a little bit the challenge you're facing and how you're helping move customers along that journey. Well, what you bring up, Stu, is the idea of data and analytics for decision-making. And really it's about that decision-making to go faster and get into that right language into the right individuals. And we really believe in this concept of data literacy. And data literacy was said, I think well, between two professors who co-authored a white paper. One professor was from MIT, the other one was from Everson College, a communication school. Data literacy is kind of the ability to read, understand, analyze and argue with data. And the more you can actually get that working inside an organization, the better you have from a decision-making and the better competitive advantage you have. You're even going to win, you're going to accomplish your mission. And now with what you said, the proliferation of data, it gets harder and where do you find it? And you need it in real time. And that's where the acquisition of attunity comes in. Okay, I need to ask a follow-up on that. So one of my favorite events I ever did with two other MIT professors. Yes, we're Boston area, we're quoting a lot of MIT professors here. But Andy McAfee and Eric Brunyolson talked about racing with the machine because it's oh great, you know, who's the best chess player out there? Was it the human grandmaster or was it the computer? And the studies were actually, is if you put the grandmaster with the computer, they could actually beat either the best computer or the best person. So when you talk about the data and analytics, everybody's looking at the AI and the ML pieces is like, okay, how do these pieces go together? How does that fit into the data literacy piece, the people and the machine learning, I'm assuming is part of it. Yeah, well what you bring up is the idea of kind of augmenting the human. And we believe very much around the cognitive, kind of interface of kind of the technology, the software with kind of the person and that decision making point. And so what you'll see around our own kind of perspective is that we were part of a second generation BI of like self service. And we've moved rapidly into this third generation which is the cognitive kind of augmentation of the decision maker, right? And so when you say this data literacy is arguing with data, well, how do you argue when you actually have the updated machine learning kind of recommendations, but it's still human making that decision. And that's an important kind of component of our kind of late, our own kind of technology that we bring to the table. But with the tunerty, that's the data side needs to be there faster and more effective.  So, you know, where are we today and how do I be able to, you know, get and leverage all of that data? So that's exactly where we've been focused over the last few years. And as we've worked with customers that were focused on building new data lakes, new data warehouses, looking at the cloud, building basically more than new foundations for enabling the organization to use way more data than they ever used before. So it goes back to the volume, at least one V out of the three Vs you mentioned. And the other one of course is the velocity and how fast it is. And we've actually come to see that there are, in a sense, two dimensions to velocity that come together. One is how timely is the data you're using? And one of the big changes we're seeing in the market is that the user expectation and the business need for real-time data is becoming ever more critical. If we used to talk to customers that talked about real-time data because when they ask for data, they get a response very quickly, but it's last week's data. Well, that's not, doesn't cut it. So what we're seeing is that first of all, the dimension of getting data that is real-time data represents the data as it's currently at. Second one is how quickly you can actually make that happen. So because business dynamics change much faster now, the speed of change in the industry accelerates. Customers need the ability to put solutions together, make data available, to answer business questions really faster. They cannot do it in the order of month and years. They need to do it in the order of days, sometimes even hours. And that's where our solutions come in. Yeah, it's interesting. My background's on the infrastructure side. I spent a lot of time in the cloud world and you talk about what we need for real-time. Well, it used to be, I rolled out a server that took weeks or months, then a VM, it reduced in time. Now we're in containerized and Kubernetes world and we're now talking a much sort of timeframe. And it's like, oh, if you show me the way something was an hour ago, oh my gosh, that's not the way the world is. And I think for years, we've talked to the two world. What is real-time and how do I really define that? And the answer we usually came up, it is getting the right information in the right place to the right person. Or in the sales standpoint, it's like, I need that information to save that client or get what they need. So are we still, some of those terms, scale in real-time, short of require context, but where does that fit into your customer discussions? Well, two parts there is you bring up, I think what you were saying is absolutely still true. Right data, right person, right time. It gets harder though with just the volumes of data. Where is it? And how do you find it? How do you make sure that it's the right pieces to the right place? And you brought up the evolution of just the compute infrastructure and analytics likes to be close to the data. But if you have data everywhere, how do you make sure that part works? And we've been investing in a lot of our own cloud analytics infrastructure is now done on a microservices basis. So it's running on Kubernetes clusters. It can work in whatever cloud compute infrastructure you want, be it Amazon or Azure or Google or kind of your local kind of platform data centers. But you need that kind of small piece tied to the right kind of data on the side. And so that's where you see a great match between the two solutions. And when you, in the second part is the response from our customers. And after the acquisition was announced was tremendous. I had one customer who works in a manufacturing space was like, this is exactly what I was looking to do from an analytics basis. I needed more data real time. And I was looking at a variety of solutions. She said, thank you very much. You made my kind of life a little easier. I can narrow down to one particular platform. So we have manufacturing companies. We have military kind of units and organizations to healthcare organizations. I've had just countless kind of feedback coming in along that same kind of question. All right, NMR, for the Atunity customers, what does this mean for them coming into the Click family? First of all, it means for them that we have a much broader opportunity to serve them. Click is a much bigger company. We have more resources we can put to bear to both continue and enhance the Atunity offering as well as creating integrations with other products such as the Click Data Catalyst, which I've click acquired several months ago, and there's a great synergy between those products, the Atunity product and the Click Data Catalyst to provide a much more comprehensive, modern enterprise data integration platform. And then beyond that to create also synergies with other Click Analytics products. So again, while the Click Data Integration platform consisting of Atunity and Click Data Catalyst will be independent and provide solutions for any data platform, analytic platform, cloud platform, as it already does today. We'll continue to invest in it. There's also opportunities to create unique synergies with some of our ClickSat technologies such as the Associative Big Data Index and some others to provide more value, especially at scale. All right, so Drew, please expand on that a little bit if you can. There's so many pieces. I know we're going to spend a little bit of time going deeper in some of the other ones, but when you talk to your customers, when you talk to your partners, what do you want to make sure? What their key takeaways are. Right, so there was a couple of important points that you made on the data integration platform. And so that's the combination of the Atunity products plus the data catalysts, which was co-wired through Podium data. Both of those kind of components are available and will continue to be available for our customers to use on whatever analytics platform. So we have customers who use data for data science and they want to work in R and Python and their own kind of machine learning or working with platforms like Data Robots. And they'll be able to continue to do that with that same speed. They also could be using another kind of analytical visualization tool. And we actually have a number of customers who do that and will continue to support that. So that's the first point I think you made up which is an important one. The second is, while we do think there is some value with using ClickSense with the platform and we've been investing on a platform called the Associative Big Data Index. And that sounds like a very complicated piece but what we've done is taken our kind of unique kind of value proposition as an analytical company which is the ability to work with data and ask questions of it and have the answers come to you very quickly is to be able to take that same associative experience that people use in our product and bring it down to the data lake. And that's where you start to see that same kind of what people love about ClickView and ClickSense and brought into the data lake. And that's where DataMar was bringing up from a scale kind of perspective. So you have both kinds of opportunities. All right, well, Drew and Inbar really appreciate you sharing the importance of these coming together. We're gonna spend some more time digging into the individual pieces there. I might be able to say, okay, or we passed the data lakes as it got to a data swamp or a data ocean because there are lots of sources of data and the lake I always say is it seems a little bit more pristine than the average IT environment is. So, but thank you so much and look forward to having some more conversations with you. Thanks Drew. All right. And be sure to check out thecube.net for all our videos. I'm Stu Miniman. Thanks so much for watching.