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Oracle unveils new suite for analytics, AI data management

The tech giant's new Fusion Data Intelligence Platform is aimed at fueling AI, BI and data management so customers can quickly take action based on analysis and insight.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 20, 2023

process intelligence (business process intelligence)

Process intelligence is data that has been systematically collected to analyze the individual steps within a business process or operational workflow.

By TechTarget Contributor • Sept. 18, 2023

Staige: A new Qlik portfolio for traditional AI, genAI and ML

The analytics and data integration vendor's new suite combines AI and ML capabilities with generative AI to provide a secure and governed environment for development and analysis.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 12, 2023

Collibra acquires data notebook vendor for analytics tools

The data management specialist will add query and analysis capabilities to its portfolio of data quality and data governance tools with its new acquisition.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 7, 2023

Embedded analytics a way for organizations to broaden BI use

By delivering data to workers within their workflows in an easily digestible form, inserting BI into other applications is one way organizations can broaden the use of analytics.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 31, 2023

New set of Domo tools enables generative AI development

The analytics vendor's new artificial intelligence suite includes integrations with ChatGPT and other LLMs along with text-to-code translation that simplifies development.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 30, 2023

Google unveils generative AI integrations for data tools

Integrations between Duet AI and both Looker and BigQuery are among the features and integrations the tech giant is planning for its data and analytics tools.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 28, 2023

Occupancy analytics emerges to optimize space utilization

With many office buildings largely empty following the pandemic and the concept of smart buildings gaining momentum, a new segment of BI is helping organizations optimize space.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 25, 2023

Advanced analytics challenges limit analytics, AI benefits

Traditional advanced analytics are not going to disappear with the rise of generative AI. Cultural and quality challenges hinder organizations as attention shifts to new trends.

By Maria Korolov • Aug. 23, 2023

heat map (heatmap)

A heat map is a two-dimensional representation of data in which various values are represented by colors.

By Rahul Awati • Aug. 22, 2023

Small language models emerge for domain-specific use cases

Because LLMs suffer from accuracy and security problems, some organizations are developing generative AI systems trained with their own company data to address specific use cases.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 1, 2023

Generative AI the dominant first half 2023 analytics trend

Numerous vendors have unveiled plans to integrate generative AI throughout their platforms, though few tools featuring the potentially transformative technology have been released.

By Eric Avidon • July 27, 2023

AWS unveils generative AI tools for QuickSight BI platform

The tech giant introduced two natural language processing features aimed at making dashboard developers more efficient and enabling more business users to work with data.

By Eric Avidon • July 26, 2023

5 benefits cloud BI has over on-premises options

BI moving from on premises to the cloud taps into operational improvements and benefits. Optimizing these tools creates a more customized, user-friendly experience.

By Mary Pratt • July 17, 2023

Collins Aero reducing flight delays with Databricks platform

The data lakehouse vendor's tools form the foundation of analytics products designed to help airlines predict and prevent maintenance that results in delays and cancellations.

By Eric Avidon • July 12, 2023

Teradata makes VantageCloud Lake available on Azure

By making its cloud-native platform natively available on Azure, the data management and analytics vendor aims to more smoothly enable users to run machine learning and BI tasks.

By Eric Avidon • July 11, 2023

Clear the confusion of advanced vs. predictive analytics

Advanced and predictive analytics are sometimes used as interchangeable terms. Users need to understand the differences of advanced analytics techniques to maximize insights.

By Mary Pratt • July 7, 2023

Business efficiency a place to start with generative AI

Increased efficiency is one of the main benefits of large language models, so one of the easiest ways for enterprises to start using LLM technology is by targeting inefficiencies.

By Eric Avidon • July 6, 2023

Generative AI hype evolving into reality in data, analytics

Organizations are already beginning to apply the technology to their data operations, helping expand analytics use to more employees and boosting the efficiency of data experts.

By Eric Avidon • July 6, 2023

Geospatial analytics bolsters predictive capabilities

Geospatial analytics provides insights that help organizations analyze current situations and use historical data to predict future outcomes.

By Sue Tripathi • June 29, 2023

ThoughtSpot buying Mode for $200M to add deeper analysis

The acquisition will extend the vendor's self-service BI platform with tools designed for data experts that enable data science, machine learning and predictive analytics.

By Eric Avidon • June 28, 2023

Snowflake targets generative AI with new capabilities

The vendor unveiled new features -- including new containerization capabilities in Snowpark -- to create a secure environment for developers to build LLM-infused applications.

By Eric Avidon • June 27, 2023

Databricks acquiring MosaicML to add more generative AI

The data lakehouse vendor's purchase of the generative AI vendor will enable customers to build and train language models specific to their needs by using their own data.

By Eric Avidon • June 26, 2023

Qlik adds generative AI capabilities via OpenAI connectors

The vendor launched OpenAI Analytics Connector and OpenAI Connector for Application Automation so that users can import generative AI and LLM technology to their Qlik deployments.

By Eric Avidon • June 22, 2023

8 ways to drive business value with advanced analytics

It can be difficult to get buy-in for analytical operations. These eight bottom-line benefits of data analytics -- with real-world examples -- can win over execs.

By George Lawton • June 19, 2023