Data science and analytics
As businesses' data volumes continue to expand, data science has become vital for to inform decision making, strategic planning and marketing techniques. Learn about the latest data science and analytics techniques businesses are incorporating to help identify opportunities to streamline processes, identify potential business ventures and improve customer service.
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15 May 2025
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. Continue Reading
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14 May 2025
Alteryx One launch aims to unify, simplify vendor's platform
The updated version of the data integration vendor's platform aims to make it easier to prepare data for AI and analytics, while new GenAI tools further simplify data preparation. Continue Reading
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14 May 2025
Databricks adds Postgres database with $1B Neon acquisition
The vendor's latest purchase comes six months after it raised $10B in funding. By adding PostgreSQL database capabilities, it aims to better enable users to build AI applications. Continue Reading
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14 May 2025
Boomi launches agentic AI development tools, support for MCP
The longtime iPaaS vendor continues to expand beyond its historical base with the additions of Agentstudio, agents that simplify integration and change data capture capabilities. Continue Reading
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14 May 2025
Informatica to build agents, foster agentic AI development
With agents now a major trend in data management, the vendor plans to join the fray by developing agentic capabilities and providing customers with the tools to do the same. Continue Reading
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14 May 2025
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. Continue Reading
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07 May 2025
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. Continue Reading
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07 May 2025
Latest Neo4j release aims to simplify graph technology
Prebuilt algorithms that reduce the complexity of queries and connectivity to any data source are designed to make graph-based analysis accessible to a broader audience. Continue Reading
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06 May 2025
8 top cloud analytics certifications
Cloud data analytics certifications enhance careers and business efficiency. Compare costs, skills taught and time required to earn top credentials. Continue Reading
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06 May 2025
Snowflake launches auto industry-specific AI capabilities
The latest AI Manufacturing Data Cloud update adds features aimed at helping auto manufacturers deal with massive amounts of data being created by the industry's evolution. Continue Reading
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02 May 2025
Fivetran adds reverse ETL with acquisition of Census
The data integration specialist's purchase provides users with complementary capabilities that enable them to send transformed data back to applications where decisions are made. Continue Reading
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30 Apr 2025
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. Continue Reading
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30 Apr 2025
StarTree aims to simplify AI development with new features
The database vendor plans to add support for Model Context Protocol and automated vector embedding capabilities to make it faster and easier to benefit from agentic AI. Continue Reading
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30 Apr 2025
StarTree aims to simplify AI development with new features
The database vendor plans to add support for Model Context Protocol and automated vector embedding capabilities to make it faster and easier to benefit from agentic AI. Continue Reading
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29 Apr 2025
Acceldata launches agentic AI-powered anomaly detection
The data observability specialist's new feature uses agentic AI to ensure that the data used to inform analytics and AI tools is high quality and won't lead to poor decisions. Continue Reading
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24 Apr 2025
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. Continue Reading
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Definition
18 Apr 2025
What is data profiling?
Data profiling refers to the process of examining, analyzing, reviewing and summarizing data sets to gain insight into the quality of data. Continue Reading
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Definition
16 Apr 2025
What is a data lake?
A data lake is a storage repository that holds a vast amount of raw data in its native format until it is needed for analytics applications. Continue Reading
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15 Apr 2025
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. Continue Reading
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09 Apr 2025
Google enters new era of AI for data with launch of agents
Agentic AI applications for data engineering and data science along with a new underlying knowledge engine aim to make data management and analytics easier and more efficient. Continue Reading
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08 Apr 2025
Snowflake embraces open source with full support for Iceberg
Three years after providing limited support for open data storage, the data platform vendor is signaling its embrace of open source with full support for the open table format. Continue Reading
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08 Apr 2025
New AI-powered tools from Dremio target data discovery
With relevant data key to developing accurate AI and analytics applications, the data lakehouse specialist's latest features target making data faster and easier to find. Continue Reading
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02 Apr 2025
Informatica adds to Claire lineup of GenAI capabilities
New copilots for data integration and iPaaS highlight the vendor's Spring 2025 release, along with a tool aimed at simplifying access to unstructured data to fuel AI development. Continue Reading
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27 Mar 2025
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. Continue Reading
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26 Mar 2025
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. Continue Reading
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20 Mar 2025
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. Continue Reading
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20 Mar 2025
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. Continue Reading
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19 Mar 2025
5 top self-service analytics use cases
Discover how self-service analytics empowers businesses across industries, enabling faster insights, better decision-making and greater data-driven innovation. Continue Reading
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19 Mar 2025
Coalesce acquires data catalog upstart to aid transformation
After raising $50 million in venture capital funding in 2024, the startup acquired CastorDoc to add AI-powered data catalog capabilities to its data preparation platform. Continue Reading
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19 Mar 2025
Confluent launches Tableflow to ease use of streaming data
The vendor's new feature enables users to convert event data to tables that developers and engineers can search and discover to inform AI and BI applications. Continue Reading
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Definition
17 Mar 2025
What is data curation?
Data curation is the process of creating, organizing and maintaining data sets so people looking for information can access and use them. Continue Reading
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14 Mar 2025
Data preparation in machine learning: 4 key steps
Data preparation for ML is key to accurate model results. Clean and structure raw data to boost accuracy, improve efficiency, and reduce overfitting for more reliable predictions. Continue Reading
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Definition
14 Mar 2025
What is unstructured data?
Unstructured data is information, in many different forms, that doesn't follow conventional data models, making it difficult to store and manage in a mainstream relational database. Continue Reading
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14 Mar 2025
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. Continue Reading
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14 Mar 2025
AWS unifies analytics and AI development in SageMaker
In a move that brings previously disparate analytics and AI development tasks together in one environment with data management, Unified Studio is now generally available. Continue Reading
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12 Mar 2025
The pros and cons of self-service analytics
Self-service analytics lowers skill barriers for data use but does require training and financial investment. Evaluate the pros and cons before deciding if it's the right fit. Continue Reading
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12 Mar 2025
Vast Data targets secure, speedy agentic AI development
The vendor is furthering its expansion into AI development with features such as vector search and event streaming aimed at enabling users to build and maintain agents. Continue Reading
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10 Mar 2025
New Databricks tools tackle lingering GenAI accuracy issues
Features such as centralized model governance and real-time monitoring aim to improve the accuracy of outputs so that enterprises can confidently scale beyond experimentation. Continue Reading
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Definition
06 Mar 2025
What is data cleansing (data cleaning, data scrubbing)?
Data cleansing, also referred to as data cleaning or data scrubbing, is the process of fixing incorrect, incomplete, duplicate or otherwise erroneous data in a data set. Continue Reading
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06 Mar 2025
16 top ERM software vendors to consider in 2025
Various software tools can help automate risk management and GRC processes. Here's a look at 16 enterprise risk management vendors and their products. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2025
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. Continue Reading
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04 Mar 2025
Qdrant update adds security measures for AI development
The vector database specialist's update includes features that enable secure AI development such as role-based access control and an API for managing cloud deployments. Continue Reading
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04 Mar 2025
AI engineer vs. data scientist: What's the difference?
AI engineers and data scientists both shape AI projects, but their roles aren't the same. Learn how their jobs differ and why it matters. Continue Reading
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03 Mar 2025
Alation unveils AI agents plus SDK for agentic development
The data catalog vendor's new agents for documentation and data quality monitoring represent innovation among metadata management vendors and could force competitors to respond. Continue Reading
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03 Mar 2025
Teradata unveils vector store to fuel AI development
The longtime data management and analytics vendor's new feature will enable developers to discover the relevant data needed to train business-specific generative AI applications. Continue Reading
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26 Feb 2025
Snowflake adds OpenAI models with Microsoft integration
In a move that adds more model choices for AI developers, models including GPT-4o are now natively available in Cortex AI alongside models from Anthropic, Meta, Mistral and others. Continue Reading
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26 Feb 2025
Google boosts AlloyDB with added vector search capabilities
New features address the accuracy and performance of the in-database vector searches that discover relevant data for feeding and training AI models and applications. Continue Reading
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25 Feb 2025
Reltio adds real-time data delivery to fuel fast decisions
The vendor's new Lightspeed Data Delivery Network can be used to feed customer recommendation engines and other applications that need data instantaneously to fuel actions. Continue Reading
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24 Feb 2025
Couchbase integrates with Nvidia NIM to aid AI development
By joining its Capella AI Model Services environment for AI development with Nvidia's microservices suite, the database vendor aims to make building and managing AI apps easier. Continue Reading
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20 Feb 2025
Cube semantic layer eases data access from Power BI, Excel
New integrations aim to better enable Microsoft users to directly access data in cloud data warehouses, which has been problematic given how different query languages interact. Continue Reading
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13 Feb 2025
IT orgs expand business observability beyond their own walls
Business observability could soon become a part of your IT environment, even if you're not the one who originally thought of it. Continue Reading
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13 Feb 2025
Confluent, Databricks partner to simplify AI development
With a new integration, joint customers can more easily access real-time streaming data to develop, deploy and maintain trusted AI models and applications. Continue Reading
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12 Feb 2025
Snowflake's new Cortex Agents enables agentic AI development
The vendor's new managed service, now in preview, provides developers with an API for combining structured and unstructured data with LLMs to create agentic applications. Continue Reading
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12 Feb 2025
Ataccama adds data lineage to foster trust in AI, analytics
Given that the absence of trusted data hinders AI development, the vendor's new capabilities further its effort to provide users with the tools to ensure data can be trusted. Continue Reading
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Definition
07 Feb 2025
What is social media analytics?
Social media analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing audience data shared on social networks to improve an organization's strategic business decisions. Continue Reading
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06 Feb 2025
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. Continue Reading
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06 Feb 2025
Databricks' acquisition of BladeBridge boosts data migration
The data and AI vendor's latest purchase adds AI-powered ETL capabilities aimed at making it easier for new customers to transport data from competing data storage platforms. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2025
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. Continue Reading
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31 Jan 2025
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. Continue Reading
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30 Jan 2025
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. Continue Reading
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27 Jan 2025
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. Continue Reading
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27 Jan 2025
Top trends in big data for 2025 and beyond
Big data initiatives are being affected by various trends. Here are seven notable ones and what they mean for organizations aiming to take advantage of their data assets. Continue Reading
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24 Jan 2025
What is ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)?
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is the most common character encoding format for text data in computers and on the internet. Continue Reading
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23 Jan 2025
Pinecone provides Assistant for generative AI development
The vector database specialist is expanding beyond managing data with a suite of APIs and other tools that enable users to tap into their data to create chatbots and agents. Continue Reading
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22 Jan 2025
18 top big data tools and technologies to know about in 2025
Numerous tools are available to use in big data applications. Here's a look at 18 popular open source technologies, plus additional information on NoSQL databases. Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2025
TigerGraph launches Savanna to aid AI development
The latest evolution of the graph database specialist's platform aims to meet developers' data discovery and performance requirements as they build AI applications. Continue Reading
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16 Jan 2025
Snowflake takes aim at lowering GenAI development costs
By integrating its recently developed SwiftKV capabilities with LLMs, the vendor aims to make models more efficient so that customers pay less as they develop generative AI tools. Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2025
Develop data literacy skills to advance your career
Data literacy skills are the foundation of data-driven decision-making. Identify your current skill level and learn what you must improve to better use data in your work. Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2025
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. Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2025
DBT Labs acquires SDF Labs to boost data transformation
By adding SQL comprehension capabilities, users will be able to validate code as it's written, speeding the transformation process and potentially improving data quality. Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2025
8 top predictive analytics tools for 2025
Predictive analytics tools are evolving. Enhanced with AI, easier to use and geared to both data scientists and business users, they're more business-critical than ever. Continue Reading
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14 Jan 2025
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. Continue Reading
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09 Jan 2025
Oracle Exadata update boosts performance to meet AI needs
With database workloads growing due to the demands of AI development and real-time analytics, the tech giant's latest database infrastructure update focuses on efficiency. Continue Reading
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09 Jan 2025
Informatica natively integrates governance suite on GCP
An expanded partnership between the data prep specialist and tech giant makes it easier for joint customers to develop AI and analytics applications using properly prepared data. Continue Reading
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09 Jan 2025
18 data science tools to consider using in 2025
Numerous tools are available for data science applications. Read about 18, including their features, capabilities and uses, to see if they fit your analytics needs. Continue Reading
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08 Jan 2025
Reshaping UX with behavioral data and AI
Companies are using AI to strengthen insights from behavioral data, transforming how they understand and respond to customer interactions. Continue Reading
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02 Jan 2025
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. Continue Reading
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23 Dec 2024
Surging AI development will heighten focus on data in 2025
Without proper training, models and applications will fail. As a result, enterprises will pay increased attention to the information used to train artificial intelligence tools. Continue Reading
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23 Dec 2024
6 trends that shaped data management, analytics in 2024
The transformation of data platforms into AI development platforms and the rise of agentic AI were the top developments in data management and business intelligence. Continue Reading
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19 Dec 2024
How to get a job as a data scientist: It starts with skills
Data science offers many professional opportunities in data-driven organizations. Balance education and experience to present yourself as an attractive data-savvy candidate. Continue Reading
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19 Dec 2024
Boomi's Rivery acquisition aimed at AI, real-time analysis
With the purchase, the data integration specialist adds change data capture capabilities for AI and real-time analytics. Continue Reading
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18 Dec 2024
Record funding round reflects Databricks' differentiation
Based on its AI development and expansion within data management, the record $10 billion the vendor raised shows it is viewed differently from its competitors. Continue Reading
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17 Dec 2024
Databricks' record $10 billion funding round to fuel growth
The data lakehouse pioneer has expanded into AI development and plans to use the funding to fuel further investments in AI, make acquisitions and expand go-to-market efforts. Continue Reading
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17 Dec 2024
Nexla integration with Nvidia NIM boosts AI development
The complementary partnership combines the data integration vendor's discovery and retrieval capabilities with the tech giant's power to scale and secure AI development. Continue Reading
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11 Dec 2024
Aerospike adds new vector search capabilities to database
With vector search a critical component of AI development, the vendor's latest vector search and storage capabilities target simplifying data discovery for training AI tools. Continue Reading
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10 Dec 2024
Acceldata unveils AI-powered data observability tools
The vendor's update includes features such as error detection with root cause analysis and schema reconciliation that use AI to automate finding and fixing data integrity problems. Continue Reading
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09 Dec 2024
Top 7 data preparation challenges and how to overcome them
Data preparation is a crucial but complex part of analytics applications. Don't let seven common challenges send your data prep processes off track. Continue Reading
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09 Dec 2024
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. Continue Reading
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05 Dec 2024
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. Continue Reading
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03 Dec 2024
AWS reimagines SageMaker as suite for data, analytics, AI
The service is now a unified platform featuring a data catalog, lakehouse and integrations with other AWS platforms. Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2024
Couchbase unveils suite of services for developing AI
The new services include access to LLMs and unstructured data transformation aimed at enabling customers to build AI tools. Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2024
What is big data analytics?
Big data analytics is the process of examining big data to uncover information -- such as hidden patterns, correlations, market trends and customer preferences -- that can help organizations make informed business decisions. Continue Reading
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27 Nov 2024
6 data preparation best practices for analytics applications
Analytics applications need clean data to produce actionable insights. Six data preparation best practices can turn your messy data into high-quality fuel for analytics operations. Continue Reading
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26 Nov 2024
How to get data ready for AI development
Factors including a combination of commitment to data quality, proper technology and pertinent processes are key to preparing data for feeding models and applications. Continue Reading
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22 Nov 2024
Snowflake fuels edtech vendor's data and AI initiatives
PowerSchool is creating personalized educational experiences for teachers, students, parents, administrators and others by using its data to train AI tools. Continue Reading
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21 Nov 2024
Business intelligence reporting: What it is, how it works
BI reporting presents data in various formats so employees can interpret and act on that information in a timely manner without relying on a data analyst. But challenges exist. Continue Reading
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20 Nov 2024
Snowflake partners with Anthropic to improve AI development
The alliance aims to make it easier and faster for the data cloud vendor's customers to use the Claude line of large language models when developing advanced applications. Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2024
7 examples of augmented analytics in the enterprise
Augmented analytics uses machine learning, AI and natural language processing to help business users interpret complex data sets. Explore use cases across industries. Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2024
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. Continue Reading
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15 Nov 2024
Big data analytics and business intelligence: A comparison
BI and big data analytics support different types of analytics applications and using them in complementary ways enables a comprehensive data analysis strategy. Continue Reading
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14 Nov 2024
Alteryx adds tools for cloud, hybrid analytics deployments
The vendor's update includes new data preparation and blending tools, improved interoperability with data warehouses and the preview of AI-powered insight generation capabilities. Continue Reading
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14 Nov 2024
Monte Carlo adds more GenAI to data observability platform
The vendor's latest update features an LLM-powered tool that delivers recommendations for developing data quality monitors along with a DataOps dashboard and new integrations. Continue Reading