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Intersport boosts analytics, marketing efficiency with Knime

Using the BI vendor's platform, the sporting goods retailer has reduced staff needed to attend to data, decreased time to build data workflows and improved marketing campaigns.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 5, 2022

MicroStrategy adds more governance to analytics platform

The longtime independent vendor's latest platform update features tools to help system administrators and application developers easily add data governance and security guardrails.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 4, 2022

Saylor to step down as MicroStrategy CEO after 33 years

The vendor's co-founder will leave the role he's held since the company was founded to become executive chairman, with President Phong Le to take over as CEO.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 3, 2022

Metrics upgrades, AR tool highlight Power BI platform update

The July update includes over 20 features, with highlights including new capabilities for Metrics, a tool that uses AR to add context to data and new embedded BI capabilities.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 3, 2022

Natural language processing augments analytics and data use

Natural language processing brings new tools to organizations to democratize data across the userbase in a simple, easy manner, but faces challenges with the nuances of language.

By Lisa Morgan • Aug. 3, 2022

How self-service BI capabilities improve data use

Organizations can be more efficient problem solvers and enable users with self-service BI capabilities that bring more data and tools to their fingertips.

By Lisa Morgan • July 25, 2022

Automation, more security and governance next big BI trends

As many data preparation and management tasks get automated, insight generation and action are the next likely targets for automation. Another key trend is more data governance.

By Eric Avidon • July 21, 2022

5 business analytics trends that shaped the start of 2022

While AI and machine learning capabilities continue to evolve, another major movement in BI so far in 2022 has been to enable users to take action directly from insights.

By Eric Avidon • July 19, 2022

Tibco adds SaaS version of MDM platform, updates TCI

The analytics vendor unveiled Cloud EBX as it continues to add cloud-native versions of its tools. In addition, it launched an updated version of its cloud integration suite.

By Eric Avidon • July 18, 2022

New CEO not likely to change Tibco once merged with Citrix

The analytics vendor's product leaders all remain in place, so while it will have a new company leader, its product development capabilities are expected to remain unchanged.

By Eric Avidon • July 13, 2022

SingleStore secures $116M in funding to fuel growth

The data management vendor has secured $278 million in financing since December 2020 and plans to use the new funds to fuel product development and expand marketing efforts.

By Eric Avidon • July 12, 2022

Tibco targets data model deployment with ModelOps launch

The analytics vendor designed the no-code platform, a sort of operating system for AI, to simplify the deployment of AI and machine learning models by users across organizations.

By Eric Avidon • July 12, 2022

Databricks platform fuels analytics at State Department

The vendor's AI and machine learning capabilities have enabled the government agency to improve the effectiveness of its data analysis technology and its overall efficiency.

By Eric Avidon • July 8, 2022

LA County modernizes hiring with Azure and Databricks

The HR department of the largest U.S. county revamped its analytics stack in order to help reduce hiring times that often took more than a year.

By Eric Avidon • July 6, 2022

TigerGraph Cloud update enables easier adoption, deployment

With enterprise customers adding more users as graph technology gains popularity, the vendor added features to make wide use of its SaaS platform easier and more secure.

By Eric Avidon • July 6, 2022

Tableau adds data storytelling tool in latest update

Six months after the analytics vendor's acquisition of Narrative Science comes Data Stories, a new tool aimed at enabling more employees within organizations to work with data.

By Eric Avidon • June 30, 2022

New Collibra, Snowflake integration enhances data governance

The new tool aims to enable customers to quickly put protections on sensitive data without requiring them to write code so that business users can securely work with data.

By Eric Avidon • June 29, 2022

Scottish EPA rebuilds with Tibco Spotfire after cyber attack

After almost all of the agency's data and analytics tools were wiped out, it survived and then thrived using the analytics platform to fuel data-driven decision-making.

By Eric Avidon • June 22, 2022

Knime adds new UI, tighter Snowflake bond to analytics suite

The vendor's new platform update is aimed at end users and features a revamped user interface, more Snowflake integration and a dedicated Python environment for writing scripts.

By Eric Avidon • June 20, 2022

Tibco Spotfire 12 to enable direct actions from dashboards

The platform's next update, which the vendor previewed during a recent virtual user conference, will enable customers to trigger data-driven actions directly from their dashboards.

By Eric Avidon • June 16, 2022

SAS analytics and BI platform evolves toward cloud

Though the analytics vendor has invested heavily in AI over the past few years, the most significant change to its platform has been its embrace of the cloud.

By Eric Avidon • June 15, 2022

ThoughtSpot, Matillion partner to accelerate analytics

The analytics vendor and data integration vendor both offer cloud-native tools and have joined forces to reduce the time it takes go from data ingestion to insight and action.

By Eric Avidon • June 14, 2022

Increasing importance of analytics an opportunity for ISVs

With more organizations looking to data to inform decision-making, there's a growing need for the services of independent software vendors and data providers.

By Eric Avidon • June 9, 2022

Datamart a new self-service developer tool in Power BI

The capability, now in in preview, will enable Premium customers to build small to midsize relational databases dedicated to a single subject, without requiring code.

By Eric Avidon • June 9, 2022

Qlik fuels solar equipment maker IronRidge’s insights

The manufacturer is using the analytics vendor's platform to harness both internal and external data and inform decision-making throughout the solar firm's partner network.

By Eric Avidon • June 7, 2022