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• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  Qlik adds trust score to aid data prep for AI development

  By measuring dimensions such as diversity and timeliness, the vendor's new tool helps users understand if their data is properly prepared to inform advanced applications.

• July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  Agents, semantic layers among top data, analytics trends

  The top 10 predictions for the next few years are all influenced by the increasing deployment of AI to help make business decisions and take action.

• June 13, 2025 13 Jun'25

  ThoughtSpot evolving as BI becomes driven by AI

  Recent releases, including the Agentic Analytics Platform and Agentic Semantic Layer, demonstrate that the vendor continues to be creative amid the changing analytics industry.

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  Latest Databricks tools use AI to simplify AI development

  Fueled by user feedback, the vendor's newest features include a framework that automates building agents and a no-code interface for creating the pipelines that feed applications.

• June 06, 2025 06 Jun'25

  More reasoning, interoperability key to future of agentic AI

  As agents evolve from hype to reality, research and industry must collaborate to improve agents' recall and ability to work together so that they can realize their full potential.

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• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  Sisense unveils new suite of AI-powered capabilities

  Featuring a natural language interface and autonomous capabilities to augment human analysis, the vendor's toolkit simplifies developing and embedding advanced applications.

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  New Microsoft database, analytics tools target agentic AI

  New features across the tech giant's broad array of BI and data management offerings, including Fabric and OneLake, provide developers with tools for agentic AI development.

• May 15, 2025 15 May'25

  Qlik evolves to keep up with latest AI, analytics trends

  The longtime BI vendor continues to expand beyond its historical base to keep current with what's happening in GenAI and agentic development, analytics, and data management.

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Qlik unveils agentic AI capabilities, launches lakehouse

  An insight generation tool and capabilities that unlock unstructured data are among the longtime analytics vendor's latest features, while a data lakehouse represents expansion.

• May 07, 2025 07 May'25

  SAS update targets responsible agentic AI development

  The longtime independent analytics vendor's latest Viya platform update includes Intelligent Decisioning, a set of governance-infused capabilities for developing agents.

• April 30, 2025 30 Apr'25

  Telecom giant uses Tableau Pulse to drive analytics adoption

  As part of an effort to enable its employees to make data-informed decisions, Virgin Media O2 is using the GenAI-powered insight generator to show workers what's possible.

• April 24, 2025 24 Apr'25

  Yellowfin joins GenAI fray, launches new NLQ capabilities

  The longtime BI vendor is the latest to add generative AI-powered natural language query capabilities aimed at enabling more users within organizations to use complex capabilities.

• April 15, 2025 15 Apr'25

  Tableau enters the agentic AI era with the launch of Next

  The new platform features agents addressing needs such as data preparation and natural language-based analysis, and includes a semantic layer that targets relevancy and accuracy.

• March 27, 2025 27 Mar'25

  AWS boosts Q in QuickSight with AI-powered scenario analysis

  Driven by customer feedback, the BI platform now enables nontechnical and expert users alike to model data and perform deep analytics using generative AI-fueled natural language.

• March 26, 2025 26 Mar'25

  Databricks partners with Anthropic to aid GenAI development

  With the Claude line of models natively available in the Data Intelligence Platform, developers can securely combine data and AI models to build agents and other applications.

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  Domo unveils agentic AI toolkit to simplify development

  Agent Catalyst provides users with a four-step process for developing agentic applications, including selecting an LLM and connecting it to relevant proprietary data.

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  DBT Labs launches AI copilot to boost developer efficiency

  The assistant includes features such as autogenerated documentation and testing to relieve developers and engineers of repetitive tasks and free them up for more innovative work.

• March 14, 2025 14 Mar'25

  Sigma Computing launches Data Apps to boost analytics

  The vendor's new application development feature enables users to create custom apps that combine data collection, insight generation and process automation to improve analysis.

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  Solving specific problems driving enterprise adoption of AI

  When weighing the benefits and risks of deploying AI at scale, whether the tools solve specific problems can accelerate deployment, Sisense CEO Ariel Katz says.

• February 06, 2025 06 Feb'25

  Super Bowl teams show analytics gaining ground in NFL

  As data-driven decision-making gains ground in pro football, both the Eagles and Chiefs have gained advantages from using advanced statistical analysis.

• February 04, 2025 04 Feb'25

  MicroStrategy adds personalization to GenAI-powered bot

  The longtime independent analytics vendor's latest update aims to provide users with a more tailored query and response experience to reach more contextually relevant responses.

• January 31, 2025 31 Jan'25

  Domo platform a difference-maker for check guarantee vendor

  Ingo Money succeeded with the analytics specialist's suite after years of struggling to gain insights from spreadsheets and a failed attempt to modernize with another BI vendor.

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  Agentic AI, data as a product among growing analytics trends

  Collibra's founder and chief data citizen reveals his predictions for 2025, and underpinning all is the need for strong governance that guarantees the quality of BI and AI tools.

• January 27, 2025 27 Jan'25

  Trusted data at the core of successful GenAI adoption

  A new study finds that only a third of organizations are successfully developing GenAI tools. The problem preventing success is the quality of the underlying information.

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  ThoughtSpot adds data preparation with Analyst Studio launch

  Long focused largely on analytics, the vendor's new data preparation environment marks a foray into data management so users can ready data for informing AI and BI tools.

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Qlik's Upsolver acquisition ups streaming, Iceberg support

  With Iceberg a popular foundation for data lakehouses and streaming data key to AI development, the vendor's latest acquisition aims to address growing AI needs for customers.

• January 02, 2025 02 Jan'25

  New Alteryx CEO sees platform as the canvas for AI prep

  Following a time of tumult that included going private, the vendor's new leader aims to spur growth by making its platform a pivotal part of the AI development process.

• December 09, 2024 09 Dec'24

  Alteryx names new CEO amid ongoing change

  A year after getting acquired by private equity firms amid declining revenue growth and a slow transition to the cloud, the longtime data management vendor has a new leader.

• December 05, 2024 05 Dec'24

  New Qlik integrations ready data for AI development

  The longtime analytics and data management vendor's new integrations are designed to enable customers to ingest and prepare data for GenAI.

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  With new Fabric features, Microsoft aims at AI development

  New data management and analytics suite features include databases and a data catalog to enable enterprises to develop and operationalize advanced applications.

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  ThoughtSpot AI agent Spotter enables conversational BI

  The analytics vendor's new tool not only enables users to converse with data using natural language, but also has contextual awareness and autonomously makes suggestions.

• November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24

  SAS acquires synthetic data generator to aid AI development

  The longtime analytics vendor plans to fold the intellectual property of Hazy into its existing synthetic data generation capabilities to help customers safely build AI tools.

• November 08, 2024 08 Nov'24

  Google's Looker taking an agentic approach to generative AI

  The analytics vendor aims to help customers develop agents, built on a foundation of trusted data, that enable deep analysis and relieve users of time-consuming tasks.

• October 23, 2024 23 Oct'24

  Databricks lakehouse a secret weapon for WNBA's Fever

  The vendor's platform has helped Pacers Sports & Entertainment -- parent company of the NBA's Pacers and WNBA's Fever -- free data from isolation to fuel an analytics-driven future.

• October 18, 2024 18 Oct'24

  Amplitude adds A/B testing tool to analytics suite

  Both the vendor's new feature as well as its recent acquisition of Command AI aim to make it easier for business users to work with its tools without requiring expert help.

• October 16, 2024 16 Oct'24

  Tableau platform update targets need, eschews AI hype

  Following the recent unveiling of significant AI-related tools, the vendor's final 2024 release adds practical features aimed at making Tableau easier to deploy as well as consume.

• October 08, 2024 08 Oct'24

  Databricks Apps a toolkit that simplifies AI development

  Features including native integrations with development platforms and automatic provisioning of serverless compute enable customers to more easily develop and deploy applications.

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  MicroStrategy update aims to improve generative AI accuracy

  The longtime analytics vendor's latest release addresses the accuracy of artificial intelligence outputs and includes an integration that enables users to query bots within Teams.

• September 26, 2024 26 Sep'24

  ThoughtSpot taps Salesforce exec Karkhanis to be new CEO

  As analytics enters a new era dominated by GenAI, the vendor has named former Salesforce Sales Cloud and Einstein Analytics leader Ketan Karkhanis its new chief executive officer.

• September 17, 2024 17 Sep'24

  Teradata ClearScape Analytics update targets ROI on AI, ML

  The vendor's latest platform update adds features such as a PySpark conversion tool and AutoML aimed at helping customers improve returns on their investments in AI and ML models.

• September 17, 2024 17 Sep'24

  Confluent platform update targets developer choice, security

  The vendor's latest follows its recent acquisition of WarpStream and adds new security features, along with support for the Table API to provide new options for Apache Flink users.

• September 13, 2024 13 Sep'24

  Tableau Einstein is a new BI platform with AI at its core

  The new platform marks an evolution for the longtime analytics vendor, making AI the focus with capabilities such as agent-based insight generation and real-time analysis.

• September 12, 2024 12 Sep'24

  Zoho Analytics update adds GenAI tools, data science studio

  New capabilities for the vendor's GenAI assistant include insight generation, while a studio for data science and machine learning enables various personae to do predictive BI.

• September 10, 2024 10 Sep'24

  Qlik AutoML update targets trust with visibility, simplicity

  The vendor added new features that simplify developing and deploying machine learning models as well as provide greater visibility into performance to ensure trustworthy outputs.

• September 03, 2024 03 Sep'24

  GenAI demands greater emphasis on data quality

  As GenAI explodes and enables enterprise decision-making at previously unseen speed and scale, accurate information to train models and applications becomes increasingly important.

• August 26, 2024 26 Aug'24

  GenAI evolving, remains dominant data and analytics trend

  As enterprise use of generative AI evolves from theory to practice, it remains the dominant development focus, with governance and real-time streaming playing complementary roles.

• August 01, 2024 01 Aug'24

  Google Cloud's BigQuery gets AI injection, Looker to follow

  The tech giant's latest analytics and data management moves include the general availability of Gemini in BigQuery and the imminent availability of Gemini in Looker.

• July 26, 2024 26 Jul'24

  Generative AI a top priority for Amazon QuickSight

  Though the BI platform already enables users to analyze data and develop data products using natural language, AWS plans to do more to aid insight generation and user efficiency.

• July 24, 2024 24 Jul'24

  Knime adds new AI governance measures to analytics suite

  The vendor's latest update adds connectivity to AI providers to enable GenAI development as well as governance features to address the growing use of GenAI and its inherent risks.

• July 24, 2024 24 Jul'24

  Precisely aiding wildfire fight with risk assessment data

  The data integrity vendor's specialized database includes added topographical and weather-related information to help organizations prepare for and predict catastrophic fires.

• July 17, 2024 17 Jul'24

  Understand the BI lifecycle to build an effective architecture

  Following and understanding the five steps of the business intelligence lifecycle is the foundation of a successful and effective BI architecture.

• July 16, 2024 16 Jul'24

  Teradata integrates with DataRobot to aid AI development

  The partnership provides the data management and analytics vendor's users with more choice so that they can develop advanced models and applications with their preferred tools.

• July 15, 2024 15 Jul'24

  AI readiness requires buy-in, technology and good governance

  With interest in natural language processing, predictive analytics and other augmented intelligence rises, more than tooling is needed for enterprises to properly prepare.

• July 12, 2024 12 Jul'24

  Tableau launches generative AI assistant, updates platform

  The longtime analytics vendor made a Copilot for data preparation generally available with similar tools for data cataloging and dashboard development and analysis expected soon.

• June 27, 2024 27 Jun'24

  MicroStrategy's latest delivers embedded AI-powered insights

  The longtime independent analytics vendor's new platform update combines embedded BI with generative AI to deliver AI-powered insights to users within the flow of their work.

• June 25, 2024 25 Jun'24

  Sisense adds embeddable chatbot to generative AI toolkit

  The embedded BI specialist introduced Analytics Chatbot, a tool that enables natural language interactions with data, and a feature that lets users easily create summaries.

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Qlik analytics suite helps cities combat climate change

  The longtime BI and data integration vendor's tools enable C40 Cities, a climate leadership consortium of nearly 100 cities, to operationalize critical environmental data.

• June 06, 2024 06 Jun'24

  Qlik meets user needs with realistic approach to generative AI

  With trusted data as a foundation, the longtime analytics and data integration vendor has been pragmatic in its creation of an environment that enables generative AI development.

• June 04, 2024 04 Jun'24

  Qlik unveils GenAI assistant, tools to build trusted AI

  The longtime analytics vendor's latest new features include data integration capabilities targeting data quality and a GenAI assistant that includes data lineage capabilities.

• May 31, 2024 31 May'24

  Trusted data key for Qlik as it develops foundation for AI

  The analytics and data integration vendor is focused on providing users with a foundation of trusted data as it develops an ecosystem for developing next-generation applications.

• May 22, 2024 22 May'24

  Microsoft Fabric gets new generative AI tech, more openness

  As the tech giant builds out its unified platform for data management and analytics, new tools address ease-of-use with AI and data unification with integrations.

• May 17, 2024 17 May'24

  Differentiation key as Sigma Computing raises $200M

  The vendor's attempt to broaden BI use within organizations with a no-code spreadsheet interface helps its tools feel familiar while enabling deep data exploration.

• May 15, 2024 15 May'24

  Alteryx unveils AI assistant aimed at improving efficiency

  The GenAI assistant, now in preview, aims to provide the data management vendor's users with best practices and other assistance as they develop analytics workflows in Designer.

• May 14, 2024 14 May'24

  Generative AI adoption outpacing all other forms of AI

  A recent survey by the research and advisory firm found that deployment of generative artificial intelligence has exploded after barely being a consideration in the past.

• May 08, 2024 08 May'24

  Databricks adds vector search, new LLM support to AI suite

  The data lakehouse pioneer is targeting model accuracy with the GA of vector search capabilities that help customers find the data needed to train advanced analytics applications.

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  MicroStrategy targets trusted AI with latest platform update

  The vendor's platform now includes capabilities aimed at helping customers trust NLP responses, as well as automate workflows from dashboards and third-party applications.

• April 30, 2024 30 Apr'24

  Tableau adds generative AI tools, tightens Databricks bond

  The analytics vendor's new features include a tool that enables customers to explore metrics using natural language as well as connectors that improve its link to Databricks.

• April 26, 2024 26 Apr'24

  Logi analytics suite to add new GenAI, SaaS capabilities

  Insightsoftware, parent company of the embedded BI specialist, unveiled a new generative AI assistant and SaaS version of Symphony to enable efficiency and cost savings.

• April 24, 2024 24 Apr'24

  Snowflake targets enterprise AI with launch of Arctic LLM

  The data cloud vendor's open source LLM was designed to excel at business-specific tasks, such as generating code and following instructions, to enable enterprise-grade development.

• April 17, 2024 17 Apr'24

  AI-fueled efficiency a focus for SAS analytics platform

  The vendor's latest product development plans include an AI assistant and prebuilt AI models that enable workers to be more productive as they explore and analyze data.

• April 09, 2024 09 Apr'24

  Google Cloud to inject Gemini into data, analytics tools

  The tech giant unveiled integrations between its LLM and BigQuery, Looker and its databases to provide customers with a foundation for developing GenAI models and applications.

• April 02, 2024 02 Apr'24

  AI assistant from Tableau targets efficiency, deep analysis

  The analytics vendor's copilot can recommend questions that might lead to otherwise undiscovered insights as well as understand follow-up questions that result in deep analysis.

• March 27, 2024 27 Mar'24

  New Databricks open source LLM targets custom development

  The data platform vendor's new language model was designed to provide open source users with AI development capabilities similar to those provided by closed source models.

• March 27, 2024 27 Mar'24

  Domo to add prebuilt models, chat capabilities to AI suite

  The BI vendor's latest innovations include conversational analytics capabilities and prebuilt models designed to help customers forecast outcomes and conduct sentiment analysis.

• March 26, 2024 26 Mar'24

  New embeddable MicroStrategy Auto bot expands AI beyond BI

  The longtime analytics vendor's new bot enables customers to embed emerging technology in third-party applications just as they are now able to embed traditional BI.

• March 21, 2024 21 Mar'24

  Databricks acquisition of Lilac targets GenAI development

  The data platform vendor's latest purchase expands its generative AI development capabilities by adding improved access to unstructured data that can be used to train models.

• March 14, 2024 14 Mar'24

  Sisense targets hardcore developers with new toolkit

  The embedded BI specialist's latest update features a software development kit that enables developers to compose applications using prebuilt APIs, libraries and visualizations.

• March 14, 2024 14 Mar'24

  Databricks partners with Mistral AI to aid GenAI development

  The data cloud vendor joins Microsoft and Snowflake in partnering with -- and investing in -- the startup to provide customers with access to Mistral's open source language models.

• March 12, 2024 12 Mar'24

  Snowflake boosting its commitment to AI, including GenAI

  Recent moves, including the appointment of a new CEO and the formation of a new partnership, are representative of the vendor's heightened focus on artificial intelligence.

• March 11, 2024 11 Mar'24

  Ocient raises $49.4M in funding to fuel development, growth

  The data platform vendor plans to use the new financing for product development and to fund sales and marketing efforts as it moves into its growth phase.

• March 05, 2024 05 Mar'24

  Snowflake signals AI commitment with Mistral AI partnership

  Days after appointing a new CEO, the data cloud vendor showed a heightened focus on emerging technologies by aligning closely with a rising large language model developer.

• February 29, 2024 29 Feb'24

  Google Cloud unveils new GenAI-fueled data, analytics tools

  The tech giant introduced extensive support for vector search and improved access to unstructured data while also making a pair of GenAI capabilities generally available.

• February 29, 2024 29 Feb'24

  Snowflake CEO Slootman steps down, Ramaswamy takes over

  Slootman resigns after five years at the helm of the data cloud vendor. Revenues grew fivefold under him and the company went public in a record-setting initial public offering.

• February 22, 2024 22 Feb'24

  Tableau launches Pulse, a GenAI-fueled insight generator

  The tool, which monitors data for metric changes and uses natural language to alert users, is the longtime analytics vendor's first generally available GenAI capability.

• February 20, 2024 20 Feb'24

  Generative AI dominates Google's data and analytics roadmap

  Following recent integrations between Gemini and the tech giant's major data and analytics platforms, more product innovations featuring LLMs are expected over the next few months.

• February 14, 2024 14 Feb'24

  Alteryx, Databricks expand complementary partnership

  The expanded partnership features new integrations designed to better enable joint customers to combine self-service data preparation and analysis with data science and AI.

• February 07, 2024 07 Feb'24

  Treating data as a product a method to grow analytics use

  Treating BI assets such as models and dashboards as commodities is an emerging trend as organizations continue to seek new ways of making analytics use more widespread.

• February 01, 2024 01 Feb'24

  Databricks acquisition of Einblick enhances GenAI portfolio

  The data lakehouse pioneer's latest purchase adds NLP capabilities to the generative AI features at the core of its new Data Intelligence Platform.

• January 31, 2024 31 Jan'24

  ThoughtSpot update adds feedback loop to help train GenAI

  The vendor continues to focus on generative AI, updating its conversational interface with more in-depth analysis capabilities and adding new methods of improving LLM accuracy.

• January 19, 2024 19 Jan'24

  Qlik's Kyndi acquisition targets unstructured data, GenAI

  The longtime analytics vendor's latest purchase adds support for unstructured data that can be combined with structured data to inform GenAI models and improve decision-making.

• January 12, 2024 12 Jan'24

  Microsoft unveils new GenAI, data tools for retail industry

  The tech giant is adding industry-specific features in Data Fabric along with GenAI Copilots designed to better personalize shopping as well as aid frontline workers in real time.

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  Generative AI a key tech for analytics, but within limits

  Despite its potential benefits, including increased productivity, users need to be wary of overreliance on generative AI given its propensity for delivering incorrect outputs.

• January 09, 2024 09 Jan'24

  Dresner: Analytics trends include prioritization of BI

  While generative AI is the BI craze of the moment, increased investments in BI, attempts to expand BI use to business users and embedded analytics are also in vogue.

• December 18, 2023 18 Dec'23

  Alteryx to be acquired by private equity firms for $4.4 billion

  Following slow revenue growth in recent quarters, the data management vendor will become a private company and be afforded time to restructure.

• December 18, 2023 18 Dec'23

  Infusion of generative AI into analytics a work in progress

  Many vendors have introduced tools that integrate LLM technology with their platforms, but most are still refining the tools to ensure their accuracy and security.

• December 08, 2023 08 Dec'23

  Knime updates analytics platform with new GenAI capabilities

  The vendor's latest release improves the accuracy of its GenAI chatbot, including citations so users can know the source of the chatbot's responses, and features a new UI.

• November 29, 2023 29 Nov'23

  AWS unveils Amazon Q in QuickSight to add more generative AI

  The tech giant's new generative AI chatbot could help more employees within organizations work with data by enabling them to query and analyze data using conversational language.

• November 15, 2023 15 Nov'23

  Microsoft launches Fabric, adds Copilot for the new platform

  The suite unites Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics and Data Factory in an integrated environment to better enable data management and analysis, including developing AI models.

• November 01, 2023 01 Nov'23

  Snowflake previews slew of AI, governance, development tools

  The data cloud vendor introduced more than a dozen features currently in various stages of development designed to help users build and govern data models and applications.

• October 27, 2023 27 Oct'23

  Tableau update highlighted by new embedded analytics tool

  In addition to Embedding Playground, the longtime BI vendor's latest platform update features new metadata management capabilities and an integration with Google Docs.