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Analytics trends to watch in the coming year

Process automation and continuous intelligence are among the BI trends to watch in 2021 as organizations employ analytics to become more efficient and agile than ever before.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 24, 2020

Analytics startups to watch in the coming year

The startup BI vendors to watch in 2021 are those companies attempting to extend data analysis beyond data scientists and trained analysts to ordinary business users.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 18, 2020

Analytics in real estate thrive in the commercial market

Data can drive everything from investment to redevelopment in the commercial real estate spaces, and analytics will continue to lead change in the industry.

By Kara Joyce • Dec. 18, 2020

Data prep in browser highlights Tableau BI platform update

New data preparation capabilities highlight the release of Tableau 2020.4, which was unveiled on Dec. 15 and includes a version of Tableau Prep Builder for the browser.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 15, 2020

Data literacy necessary amid COVID-19 pandemic

Data literacy is perhaps more important now than ever before as healthcare organizations, governments and enterprises struggle to deal with the effects of COVID-19.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 11, 2020

New ThoughtSpot tool advances embedded BI capabilities

ThoughtSpot this week unveiled ThoughtSpot Everywhere, an embedded analytics platform in preview, and a host of features on its roadmap, including pinboard filtering.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 10, 2020

Snowflake’s Slootman predicts future of cloud analytics

Cloud data platforms that effectively eliminate data silos and reduce the need for multiple tools will emerge over the next few years, according to Snowflake's CEO.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 9, 2020

Startup analytics vendor Einblick emerges from stealth

Startup BI vendor Einblick emerged from stealth on Wednesday and aims to differentiate itself with a platform that integrates AI and machine learning with business intelligence.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 9, 2020

ThoughtSpot expands cloud capabilities with ThoughtSpot One

ThoughtSpot One, a new tool from analytics vendor ThoughtSpot, enhances the natural language search and data sharing capabilities of the SaaS version of the vendor's platform.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 9, 2020

The data science process: 6 key steps on analytics applications

The data science process includes a set of steps that data scientists take to gather, prepare and analyze data and present the analytics results to business users.

By Donald Farmer • Dec. 8, 2020

ThoughtSpot BI platform to focus on the cloud

After developing a strong on-premises customer base, ThoughtSpot is undergoing a transformation with the cloud at the center of is product development strategy.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 7, 2020

The top 5 enterprise advanced analytics use cases

Advanced analytics adoption has been growing across industries. The technology has many growing use cases in enterprises, but these are the top five.

By Maria Korolov • Dec. 4, 2020

Microsoft’s Azure Synapse Analytics now generally available

After more than a year in preview, Microsoft's new analytics platform that brings together data integration, data warehousing and big data analysis is now generally available.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 3, 2020

Enabled by AWS, Vyaire ramps up production of ventilators

When demand for ventilators increased exponentially due to COVID-19, a developer of respirators turned to analytics tools from AWS to help determine how to meet the sudden need.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 3, 2020

Price differentiates Amazon QuickSight, but capabilities lag

New embedded analytics capabilities highlight the latest additions to the QuickSight platform, but despite improving capabilities, its low cost remains its key attraction.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 2, 2020

Coronavirus quickly expands role of analytics in enterprises

While NLP and embedded BI were expected to be key analytics trends, the effect of the pandemic on enterprises' takeup of analytics instead was the biggest development of 2020.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 25, 2020

Event streaming technologies a remedy for big data’s onslaught

Event streaming is emerging as a viable method to quickly analyze in real time the torrents of information pouring into collection systems from multiple data sources.

By George Lawton • Nov. 25, 2020

Analytics keys Golden State Warriors’ wins, on court and off

After adopting a data-driven culture a decade ago, the Golden State Warriors transformed themselves from one of the NBA's least successful franchises to one of its best.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 23, 2020

Knime focused on performance speed of analytics platform

New nodes that enhance speed and efficiency are at the core of Knime's roadmap as the open source analytics vendor prepares its next update for release in December.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 20, 2020

Enhanced admin controls highlight Alteryx platform update

New features to augment administrative control over the data management process highlight Alteryx 2020.4, the latest update from the data management vendor.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 19, 2020

Snowflake to offer BI capabilities with Snowsight

Snowflake plans to join its cloud computing competitors by offering BI capabilities starting in 2021, though the vendor's tool will have limited capabilities.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 18, 2020

New Sigma Computing tool enables in-warehouse data editing

Warehouse Data Editing, a no-code tool from startup analytics vendor Sigma, enables end users to update data without first having to upload it from their cloud data warehouse.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 17, 2020

TigerGraph taking advantage of graph database growth

TigerGraph continues to aggressively expand its customer base by focusing on ease of use as it updates its platform and offers free versions of its tools.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 13, 2020

Continuous intelligence a trend on the rise

As organizations look to gain a competitive advantage -- and many simply attempt to survive during the pandemic -- data streaming is helping them make decisions in real time.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 12, 2020

Brain teasers and other fun tips for learning Python

Learn about some interesting ways Python coders can grow their skills in the language and the importance of connecting and learning from others in the community.

By Kara Joyce, The Pragmatic Programmers LLC • Nov. 11, 2020