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What is data science as a service (DSaaS)?

Data science as a service (DSaaS) is a form of outsourcing that involves the delivery of information gleaned from advanced analytics applications run by data scientists at an outside company to corporate clients for their business use.

By Ed Burns • Oct. 5, 2021

TigerGraph 3.2 targets platform’s performance, ease of use

Enterprise-grade performance and ease of use are the key areas of the latest platform update from the startup graph database vendor as it looks to attract more enterprise customers.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 5, 2021

Qlik acquisition of Big Squid adds autoML capabilities

Qlik has acquired Big Squid to add automated machine learning capabilities to its platform. In addition, the analytics vendor recently unveiled a new automated workflow tool.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 1, 2021

New Tibco Spotfire capabilities add interoperability

The new capabilities added to Tibco's Predict portfolio of BI tools focus on ease of use and their interoperability with other parts of the Tibco platform.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 30, 2021

ThoughtSpot reports cloud growth, but IPO still not imminent

ThoughtSpot, which made a strategic shift to prioritize the cloud in 2020 in anticipation of eventually going public, reported substantial year-over-year SaaS revenue growth.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 29, 2021

Vista plans to acquire Blue Prism and roll it into Tibco

Vista Equity Partners, the parent company of analytics vendor Tibco, has revealed its intent to acquire a leading robotic process automation vendor and plans to roll it into Tibco once the deal closes.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 29, 2021

Alteryx partnership with UiPath adds automation capabilities

Alteryx expanded its partnership agreement with a robotic process automation vendor as Alteryx continues to make automation a central part of its analytics platform.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 28, 2021

Hyperconverged Analytics continues to guide Tibco strategy

A year after unveiling a new analytics environment that blends data science, visualization and streaming, interoperability continues to guide the vendor's development strategy.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 27, 2021

New Tableau integrations with Slack aim to increase speed

Tableau unveiled a series of tools during Salesforce's Dreamforce 2021 user conference that blend Tableau's analytics capabilities with the collaboration capabilities of Slack.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 23, 2021

Modern data strategy includes cloud, domain federation

Analytics strategies should include overarching organizational best practices blended with teams empowered to build interoperable data assets, according to one industry expert.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 22, 2021

Pandemic continues to highlight importance of analytics

Organizations with successful analytics programs have weathered the economic crisis caused by the pandemic far better than those who have not prioritized BI, according to research.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 21, 2021

Domo adds collaborative development tool to analytics suite

Domo has unveiled Sandbox, a new portal for developing and testing data assets that enables collaboration and provides safety and governance measures.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 16, 2021

Uplevel analytics tools lift software engineering efficiency

Uplevel, a startup vendor whose focus is on improving the efficiency of software engineers, unveiled a set of new capabilities that use data to monitor software design projects.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 15, 2021

Future of analytics will close gap between data, decisions

As data increases in complexity and volume, a gap is growing between data intake and data-driven decision-making that analytics tools will need to address and aim to close.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 14, 2021

Time is now for enterprises to deploy analytics in the cloud

Speed and security now make cloud analytics preferable to on-premises deployments, along with advantages such as collaboration for a distributed workforce and agility to scale.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 10, 2021

Oracle Analytics helps Northwell Health meet staffing needs

In need of an efficient way to determine staffing needs when the pandemic struck, Northwell Health got help with an Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management dashboard.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 8, 2021

Analytics trends include a surge in app development

As more organizations have recognized the value of data during the pandemic, a surge in application development is among the top business intelligence trends.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 8, 2021

Dresner: Top analytics trend remains rate of adoption

Increased investment in analytics and proliferation of data science capabilities are among the most significant ongoing trends in BI as the pandemic stretches into late 2021.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 2, 2021

Tableau platform update focuses on broad analytics adoption

Tableau 2021.3 doesn't include fancy new AI or machine learning features, instead focusing on capabilities that enable enterprises to scale their analytics programs to more users.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 2, 2021

TigerGraph aims to take graph technology mainstream

As relational databases struggle with scale, one graph database vendor says a paradigm shift is underway and aims to make graph technology the standard approach for data storage.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 31, 2021

Data science vs. machine learning vs. AI: How they work together

Data science, machine learning and AI are central to analytics and other enterprise uses. Here's what each involves and how combining them benefits organizations.

By Ron Schmelzer • Aug. 29, 2021

Alteryx platform update includes automated recommendations

Automation is an ongoing focus for Alteryx. The vendor's latest update adds an automated recommendation feature that suggests tools to connect as users build workflows.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 20, 2021

14 most in-demand data science skills you need to succeed

The demand for data scientists continues to grow, but the job requires a combination of technical and soft skills. Here are 14 key skills for effective data scientists.

By Kathleen Walch • Aug. 20, 2021

How to increase the success rate of data science projects

Most data science initiatives don't produce value due to obstacles like poor data quality, but CNN senior lead of product analytics Bryce Macher has a plan for success.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 18, 2021

Metals manufacturer uses Sisu analytics tools to spur growth

In need of identifying repeat business opportunities, startup metals manufacturer Fractory used Sisu's platform to automate complex data queries and develop key metrics.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 17, 2021