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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.

By Eric Avidon • Feb. 7, 2024

data sampling

Data sampling is a statistical analysis technique used to select, manipulate and analyze a representative subset of data points to identify patterns and trends in the larger data set being examined.

By Jacqueline Biscobing, Robert Sheldon, Kinza Yasar • Feb. 6, 2024

self-service analytics

Self-service analytics is a type of business intelligence (BI) that enables business users to access, manipulate, analyze and visualize data, as well as generate reports based on their discoveries.

By Ed Burns, Robert Sheldon • Feb. 5, 2024

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.

By Eric Avidon • Feb. 1, 2024

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.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 31, 2024

in-memory analytics

In-memory analytics is an approach to querying data residing in a computer's random access memory (RAM) as opposed to querying data stored on physical drives.

By Rahul Awati • Jan. 25, 2024

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.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 19, 2024

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.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 12, 2024

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.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 9, 2024

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.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 9, 2024

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.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 18, 2023

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.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 18, 2023

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.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 8, 2023

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.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 29, 2023

advanced analytics

Advanced analytics is a broad category of inquiry that can be used to help drive changes and improvements in business practices.

By Donald Farmer, Katie Terrell Hanna • Nov. 17, 2023

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.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 15, 2023

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.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 1, 2023

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.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 27, 2023

GoodData launches new platform for AI, ML and BI workflows

The vendor's FlexHouse Analytics Lake provides a single environment for normally disparate data assets to simplify AI, analytics and machine learning development and analysis.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 20, 2023

DBT Labs updates Semantic Layer, adds data mesh enablement

New semantic modeling capabilities include support for dynamic joins, while added support for data mesh represents evolution beyond the vendor's roots in data transformation.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 19, 2023

Logi now Insightsoftware’s unified embedded analytics suite

Logi Symphony combines capabilities from numerous Insightsoftware acquisitions and adds support for generative AI so that users can build and embed AI-infused applications.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 12, 2023

MicroStrategy launches new suite of generative AI tools

The longtime analytics vendor's suite incorporates LLM technology to make users more efficient by enabling them to use natural language to query, model and analyze data.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 5, 2023

Sisense unveils composable toolkit for app development

Compose SDK for Fusion is a composable set of APIs that enable developers to build customized advanced analytics applications to inform business users within their normal workflow.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 28, 2023

SAS unveils plans to add generative AI to analytics suite

After holding off on integrating with LLMs until it could ensure data security and accurate outcomes, the vendor is making industry-specific tools the focus of its AI strategy.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 22, 2023

Spotfire unveils generative AI plans, adds to pre-built apps

The analytics specialist introduced the private preview of Copilot, which will enable customers to ask questions of their data and receive responses without having to write code.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 20, 2023