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Starburst adds features to further data mesh approach

The data and analytics vendor advanced its SaaS platform with data discoverability and governance features and its enterprise platform with support for AWS Lake Formation.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 29, 2022

Healthcare firm builds SaaS analytics tools with ThoughtSpot

The healthcare consulting firm used the analytics vendor's platform to develop tools that enable customers to reduce risk and increase efficiency related to the auditing process.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 28, 2022

What makes up an analytics pipeline?

Analytics pipelines were traditionally hidden away, but they're changing as more organizations focus on agility for their data. Learn what makes up a successful analytics pipeline.

By Ben Cole, Lisa Morgan • Nov. 21, 2022

TigerGraph Cloud update adds ML, data visualization tools

The latest from the graph database vendor includes a feature that enables users to build visuals without writing code and another that lets data scientists use familiar tools.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 18, 2022

Data analytics pipeline best practices: Data classification

Data analytics pipelines collect a variety of data categories requiring efficient data organization. These data classification best practices can help improve pipeline performance.

By Vincent Granville • Nov. 18, 2022

named entity

In data mining, a named entity is a phrase that clearly identifies one item from a set of other items that have similar attributes.

By TechTarget Contributor • Nov. 17, 2022

Alteryx launches SaaS version of Designer in Analytics Cloud

The fully cloud-native version of Designer furthers the vendor's move toward the cloud, which began in early 2022 with the launch of its first cloud-based suite of tools.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 16, 2022

Tableau packages tools in Analytics Performance Bundle

The combination of four tools comes at a cost savings for customers and is designed to better enable users to derive value from data by providing all needed capabilities in one.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 15, 2022

Knime unveils collaboration hub for analytics, data science

Built to complement Knime's Analytics Platform, the cloud-native hub is an environment for sharing, collaborating and launching data tools into production across organizations.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 15, 2022

Logi Analytics focused, stable as part of Insightsoftware

The formerly independent embedded BI specialist is benefiting from its new parent company's aggressive acquisition strategy as well as its emphasis on product development.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 10, 2022

Launch of Business Analytics Enterprise unifies IBM BI tools

The tech giant joined previously disparate capabilities in a single platform and unveiled a new hub where customers can view models and dashboards from various vendors.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 7, 2022

Qlik launches new cloud-based data integration platform

The new integration platform as a service joins data preparation and cataloging capabilities in one place, enabling organizations ready their data in real time for analysis.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 3, 2022

Election campaigns recognize need for analytics in politics

Candidates are now using data to build profiles of potential voters and target their outreach in much the same way enterprises use BI tools to personalize marketing efforts.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 3, 2022

Modernizing talent one of the keys to analytics success

Adding a chief data officer, hiring data engineers and implementing a data literacy program are crucial aspects of reaching a desired level of data maturity.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 28, 2022

Data science quiz: Test your knowledge

Interested in becoming a data scientist? This short quiz will test what you know about the data science process, required skills and how data scientists do their jobs.

By Kara Joyce, Craig Stedman, Tréa Lavery • Oct. 28, 2022

ThoughtSpot launches integration with Google Sheets

The combination of the analytics vendor's NLP-based platform with the spreadsheet is designed to help joint customers derive insights from their data and take action.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 27, 2022

Data analytics pipeline best practices: Data governance

Data analytics pipelines bring a plethora of benefits, but ensuring successful data initiatives also means following best practices for data governance in analytics pipelines.

By Alan Morrison • Oct. 26, 2022

citizen data scientist

A citizen data scientist is an individual who does some data science work for an organization but doesn't hold the title of data scientist or have a formal background in advanced analytics, statistics or related disciplines.

By Craig Stedman, Laura Fitzgibbons • Oct. 25, 2022

Startup Tellius raises $16M in new funding to fuel growth

The analytics vendor plans to use the capital to build up an ecosystem for analytics through new integrations and develop industry-specific applications to speed up time to value.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 24, 2022

TigerGraph unveils support for query language openCypher

The graph database vendor moves to support openCypher to attract customers unfamiliar with its GSQL query language while the industry works to develop a standard query language.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 19, 2022

Guided analytics tool highlights Tableau platform update

Data Guide features augmented intelligence capabilities designed to assist users as they surface insights from their data and reach actionable decisions.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 18, 2022

Oracle analytics update adds CX app, semantic modeling tool

The tech giant's latest platform update adds capabilities designed to improve the productivity of business users and reduce organizations' reliance on IT teams.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 18, 2022

Marketing agency uses Looker to build data platform, grow

When overhauling its analytics operations, a digital marketing agency turned to analytics vendor Looker's tools to build data marts and enable self-service exploration and analysis.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 13, 2022

Power BI platform adds cross-tenant sharing, integrations

Power BI users can now safely share data and collaborate with partner and customer organizations, while new integrations with Microsoft 365 tools are now in preview.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 12, 2022

Google Cloud consolidates analytics tools under Looker name

The tech giant renamed Data Studio, its primary BI platform before its acquisition of Looker, and unveiled a new enterprise version of the rebranded platform.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 11, 2022