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Do you need a data warehouse for business intelligence?

Some organizations have moved away from using data warehouses in their business intelligence strategies. Read on to find out how approaches to data storage for BI are changing.

By Lisa Morgan • Feb. 12, 2021

ThoughtSpot, Azure alliance boosts BI capabilities of both

A new strategic partnership between ThoughtSpot and Microsoft Azure unveiled on Feb. 11 includes joint product development plans in addition to enhanced connective capabilities.

By Eric Avidon • Feb. 11, 2021

TSA tracks PPE supply data with MicroStrategy amid pandemic

The TSA has taken advantage of its lengthy relationship with MicroStrategy to develop tools to oversee its supply of PPE and keep employees as safe as possible during the pandemic.

By Eric Avidon • Feb. 10, 2021

Sisense analytics suite renamed to reflect embedded BI focus

The business intelligence vendor unveiled Sisense Fusion, a rebranded version of Sisense's platform named to reflect the vendor's new focus on embedded BI capabilities.

By Eric Avidon • Feb. 9, 2021

MicroStrategy plans include SaaS version of its BI platform

MicroStrategy revealed during its user conference that a SaaS version of its platform is in the works, as are new embedded analytics and process automation capabilities.

By Eric Avidon • Feb. 5, 2021

Embedded analytics prominent in latest MicroStrategy update

New embedded BI capabilities and tools that enable collaboration are key features of MicroStrategy 2021, the latest platform update from the longtime BI vendor.

By Eric Avidon • Feb. 3, 2021

Decision intelligence software boosted by analytics, AI

Enterprise adoption of decision intelligence is projected to grow in the next few years. Find out how analytics and AI support decision modeling and how organizations are using it.

By Maria Korolov • Feb. 3, 2021

New Viya, Azure integration enables SAS analytics users

A new integration between SAS Viya and Microsoft Azure makes Azure the preferred cloud for SAS customers and will enable a more seamless connection between the platforms.

By Eric Avidon • Feb. 2, 2021

Automotive analytics drives consumer-focused industry

The automotive industry and analytics have always worked in tandem, and now with a shift in focus from product to consumer prompted by market changes and economic downturn.

By Joseph Carew • Feb. 2, 2021

BI vendor Phocas raises funds to build predictive analytics

With its eyes on expansion and new analytics product development, a veteran Australian-based BI vendor raised $34 million in venture capital funding.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 29, 2021

Data governance for self-service analytics best practices

Establish a strong data governance strategy that will support your self-service analytics environment by including these best practices in your organization's process.

By George Lawton • Jan. 28, 2021

Expert: Agile data-driven decision-making key to growth

Insight-driven decisions are crucial to the success and survival of organizations amid the current economic environment, advises an expert, as is the ability to act and react.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 28, 2021

Customer analytics firms merge to take on Salesforce, Adobe

Manthan Systems and RichRelevance, vendors specializing in customer analytics, recently merged to bring together AI-fueled insights with expertise in global retail.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 25, 2021

Why using graph analytics for big data is on the rise

Graph analytics is being used across industries for different reasons. Read on to see how they can improve organizational decision-making, network analysis, production and more.

By Lisa Morgan • Jan. 22, 2021

Data governance framework key to analytics success

Successful data-driven decision-making relies on good data at its core, and it's a strong governance plan that ensures the quality of an organization's data.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 22, 2021

Looker, Google planning plenty of analytics collaborations

While collaboration with its parent company is prominent in Looker's plans, so are investments in analytics capabilities including embedded BI and natural language processing.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 22, 2021

Partnership enables Alteryx users to prep data in Snowflake

Alteryx and a rising cloud data warehouse vendor unveiled a new partnership that will enable joint customers to more easily and inexpensively prepare data for analytics.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 19, 2021

Key differences in uses of DataOps vs. DevOps

As with DevOps, DataOps hinges on cooperation between teams and breaking down silos within an organization with the focus of implementing and maintaining a data architecture.

By Joseph Carew • Jan. 15, 2021

Data storytelling a key part of Yellowfin analytics platform

Data storytelling remains a focal point for Yellowfin. Stories, the vendor's narrative generation tool, features heavily in both its latest platform update and roadmap for 2021.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 15, 2021

Assent Compliance automates text analytics with AWS

With more than 20,000 documents to review each month, Assent Compliance, a supply chain data management vendor, turned to AWS to automate its text analysis operations.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 14, 2021

Tibco acquisitions add capabilities to analytics platform

The recent completion of Tibco's acquisition of IBI has the potential to benefit customers of both given the complementary qualities of the vendors' platforms.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 12, 2021

6 top business benefits of real-time data analytics

The potential benefits of real-time analytics applications for organizations include faster decision-making, increased business agility, better customer service and more.

By Donald Farmer • Jan. 11, 2021

Data storytelling vendor Toucan Toco poised for growth

Startup data storytelling vendor Toucan Toco has big goals for 2021, including doubling its annual revenues and expanding its customer base by about 50%.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 7, 2021

DataOps engineer an emerging role in analytics

As organizations accumulate more data and realize the need to implement a DataOps strategy, they are now seeking DataOps specialists to help implement and oversee data management.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 6, 2021

Augmented analytics lead analytics trends for 2021

Augmented analytics adoption was one of the top trends for 2020. Adoption still seems strong for 2021 as well as personalization the role of AI in analytics overall.

By Lisa Morgan • Dec. 31, 2020