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BI adoption poised to break through barrier -- finally

Analytics use within organizations has been stuck for more than a decade. But the combination of embedded BI, NLP and development of a data culture could result in a breakthrough.

By Eric Avidon • Feb. 1, 2023

Expanded AtScale, Databricks integration adds functionality

The semantic layer platform vendor's tools are now listed on Databricks' Partner Connect, and existing customers can now connect to Databricks SQL and Unity Catalog.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 30, 2023

Data streaming platforms fuel for agile decision-making

Real-time analysis is critical as organizations try to compete amid economic uncertainty. Continuous intelligence data streaming technology is one way to do it.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 26, 2023

Spatial analysis a portal to deeper insights from data

When combined with other types of data, location information can add important context that leads to the well-informed insights that result in decisions and actions.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 25, 2023

asset turnover ratio

The asset turnover ratio is a measurement that shows how efficiently a company is using its owned resources to generate revenue or sales.

By Kate Brush • Jan. 25, 2023

Decision intelligence changes operations across industries

Decision intelligence speeds up the process of delivering data to decision-makers efficiently, improving operations across industries including retail, healthcare and trucking.

By Lisa Morgan • Jan. 23, 2023

Snowflake acquires Mobilize.net tools to aid cloud migration

The vendor purchased SnowConvert, a set of tools designed to automate some of the onerous coding work required to migrate data out of on-premises databases to the cloud.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 20, 2023

Qlik unveils roadmap for analytics, data integration tools

The vendor plans to increase its connectivity to SaaS applications so users can integrate data from more sources and to add new APIs for embedded BI and automation.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 19, 2023

Overrated and underrated trends in analytics

Strong data governance frameworks are seemingly always underrated, while new data architectures such as data mesh and the promise of automated machine learning might be overrated.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 17, 2023

Sisense unveils integration with ChatGPT

The analytics vendor designed a new UI that enables customers to engage with the chatbot and use its capabilities to dramatically speed data preparation and enhance data analysis.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 11, 2023

Qlik acquisition of Talend adds data fabric capabilities

Through its latest purchase, the longtime analytics vendor adds data fabric and self-service data pipeline development capabilities to its existing suite of data integration tools.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 9, 2023

Salesforce layoffs evidence Tableau has lost independence

The analytics vendor was significantly affected by the CRM giant's latest staff cut, which comes on the heels of an exodus of executives from Tableau that included its former CEO.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 6, 2023

Experts predict NLP to be biggest BI trend this year

Given the advancements in chatbot technologies like the recent launch of ChatGPT, industry watchers expect analytics vendors to prioritize natural language query and analysis.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 4, 2023

ThoughtSpot, DBT partner to join BI and data modeling

The analytics vendor and open source tool have already developed integrations that combine self-service BI and semantic modeling, and now plan to fine-tune their functionality.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 21, 2022

Ascend.io tool offers free data ingestion for Snowflake users

Free Ingest encourages the vendor's customers to use its data import tools, rather than a third party's, to reduce the complexity and improve the security of data management.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 21, 2022

Data governance, AI among the past year’s analytics trends

Organizations recognized data governance as an enabler of self-service BI and a way to keep data safe as well as that AI is best used to augment humans rather than replace them.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 16, 2022

Sigma Computing advances data collaboration with new tool

Live Edit not only enables collaboration during the decision-making process but also lets data engineers and business users work together as they develop new data products.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 14, 2022

Tableau update enables direct action from analytics insights

The vendor's fourth-quarter update includes an integration with Salesforce Flow that enables users to trigger actions in business applications directly from their BI dashboards.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 14, 2022

People and processes key to a successful analytics strategy

A commitment from the C-suite, including appointing data leaders, that leads to processes that enable data-driven decision-making are critical to successful BI.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 9, 2022

AWS analytics tools help French utility go green

The cloud computing giant's suite enabled Engie SA to transition away from fossil fuels and now helps the French utility manage a network of renewable energy sources.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 6, 2022

Mortgage data vendor uses Qlik to build analytics platform

Polygon Research used tools from the analytics vendor to develop a SaaS platform consisting of nine dashboards that mortgage specialists can use to inform decisions.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 2, 2022

Tableau CEO Mark Nelson steps down, no successor to be named

Nelson ascended to the leadership role in March 2021 after the departure of Adam Selipsky. Salesforce, which acquired the analytics vendor in 2019, will now take on its leadership.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 2, 2022

Simulation and predictive analytics boost forecast capabilities

Simulation and prediction analytics cover two different ways to forecast data. Together, they can boost capabilities, but organizations must craft them carefully to trust the results.

By Mary Pratt • Nov. 30, 2022

Amazon enhances QuickSight with added NLQ capabilities

The platform's latest update includes the ability to ask "why" of data and do forecasting without writing code as well as new cloud migration and paginated reporting capabilities.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 29, 2022

operational intelligence (OI)

Operational intelligence (OI) is an approach to data analysis that enables decisions and actions in business operations to be based on real-time data as it's generated or collected by companies.

By Craig Stedman • Nov. 29, 2022