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Data connectivity key to insight discovery
With the economy in near constant flux over the past two years, connecting data points to fuel analytics has enabled many organizations to act and react as they need to.
By Eric Avidon • June 3, 2022 -
Expert Advice
How to evaluate and select data visualization tools
Communicating data findings requires clear and informative visuals. Selecting the right tool starts with knowing the criteria to evaluate data visualization tools.
By George Lawton • June 2, 2022 -
Analytics, automation and AI will fuel future of business
Organizations that speed their decision intelligence abilities will be those that survive and thrive, while those that don't digitally transform will fail.
By Eric Avidon • June 1, 2022 -
Tech stock sell-off signals tough times for data vendors
In addition to lowering the values of publicly traded data, analytics and AI vendors, the stock market's decline is making it difficult for companies still in their funding phase.
By Eric Avidon , Shaun Sutner • May 26, 2022 -
TigerGraph unveils new tool for machine learning modeling
The vendor's new capability is a pipeline for developing and deploying machine learning models with graph technology and works with popular third-party machine learning platforms.
By Eric Avidon • May 25, 2022 -
Alteryx adds augmented analytics, more cloud capabilities
The vendor's latest update includes increased connectivity to cloud data storage repositories and enhanced augmented intelligence features designed to increase speed-to-insight.
By Eric Avidon • May 20, 2022 -
Baseball’s Rangers seek analytics edge with Tableau
Although the game's governing body provides comprehensive stats, the franchise is using the analytics vendor's tools to deliver digestible daily reports to gain a competitive edge.
By Eric Avidon • May 19, 2022 -
Qlik unveils 2022 roadmap for its analytics platform
Included in the vendor's product development plans are a new in-database query tool, stronger machine learning capabilities and enriched security and compliance features.
By Eric Avidon • May 18, 2022 -
HP deriving value from data with ThoughtSpot
After experimenting with a variety of BI platforms, the computer giant found success with the analytics vendor's platform given its ability to handle scale.
By Eric Avidon • May 17, 2022 -
Tableau adding new storytelling tool to analytics platform
During its user conference, the vendor unveiled automated data storytelling capabilities, a new cloud version of its platform and more self-service data science tools.
By Eric Avidon • May 17, 2022 -
Data storytelling, cloud in focus at Tableau Conference ‘22
Following its 2021 acquisition of Narrative Science, data storytelling -- along with cloud capabilities -- will be prominent when the vendor hosts its upcoming user conference.
By Eric Avidon • May 13, 2022 -
MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy is an enterprise business intelligence (BI) application and software vendor.
By Andrew Zola • May 13, 2022 -
ThoughtSpot roadmap aims to make analytics simple, efficient
The vendor's product development philosophy is designed to give users more output from the platform while requiring less effort from the users themselves.
By Eric Avidon • May 12, 2022 -
ThoughtSpot demonstrates its evolution at Beyond 2022
The vendor's first in-person user conference since 2019 has showcased its transformation. In an interview, ThoughtSpot CEO Sudheesh Nair discusses the company's modernization.
By Eric Avidon • May 11, 2022 -
ThoughtSpot broadens analytics customer base, targets SMBs
The analytics and BI vendor has added plug-in API apps to its natural language processing and embedded BI-friendly platform aimed at larger cloud-based enterprises and SMBs.
By Eric Avidon • May 10, 2022 -
ThoughtSpot adds analytics app templates, more automation
New capabilities included in the vendor's latest platform update include prebuilt applications, tools that automate insight delivery and a series of integrations with partners.
By Eric Avidon • May 10, 2022 -
Pyramid Analytics raises $120M, IPO could be next
The vendor plans to use the influx of capital to fund product development, geographic expansion and add staff with an eye toward going public within three years.
By Eric Avidon • May 9, 2022 -
Qlik wants analytics platform to lead to certainty, swagger
The vendor has added capabilities through acquisitions in recent years, and at its user conference plans to demonstrate the full scope of its integrated, end-to-end platform.
By Eric Avidon • April 29, 2022 -
Experts outline keys for strong data governance framework
Developing guidelines that simultaneously protect organizations from risk while enabling and encouraging employees to work with data can be difficult, but not impossible.
By Eric Avidon • April 27, 2022 -
Tableau targets embedded analytics with new developer tools
Unveiled during Salesforce's TrailblazerDX '22 developer conference, the new capabilities are aimed at enabling more business users to work with data in their everyday workflows.
By Eric Avidon • April 27, 2022 -
Self-service analytics key to agile decision-making
With worldwide events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine causing economic uncertainty, organizations need to be able to make informed decisions in near real time.
By Eric Avidon • April 20, 2022 -
Tibco WebFocus update aims to make analytics accessible
The platform update adds capabilities including a hub for analytics assets and natural language query designed to increase the number of potential users within organizations.
By Eric Avidon • April 19, 2022 -
How IT departments enable analytics operations
IT departments enable analytics in organizations by ensuring that the data architecture is in place, including tools, processes and procedures.
By Lisa Morgan • April 18, 2022 -
GoodData to launch fully managed analytics platform on AWS
The vendor unveiled its overhauled suite in June 2021, and in July 2022 expects to make GoodData Cloud generally available to users who prefer not to manage their own deployments.
By Eric Avidon • April 18, 2022 -
Sound business process architecture requires key traits
Business processes require a coherent enterprise-level architecture. In this excerpt from his new book, Roger Burlton identifies key traits business processes should share.
By Roger Burlton, Technics • April 15, 2022