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Salesforce acquisition of Tableau details emerge as CEOs speak

The Salesforce and Tableau CEOs appeared together for the first time at Tableau Conference 2019, five months after the analytics vendor agreed to be acquired by the CRM giant.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 13, 2019

Tableau analytics platform gets AI, data management upgrades

Augmented intelligence, improved data management capabilities and a tool to monitor KPIs are at the core of improvements unveiled by Tableau on Wednesday.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 13, 2019

Tableau partners with AWS to release Modern Cloud Analytics

Tableau revealed an expanded partnership with AWS on Tuesday to help the vendor's on-premises users migrate their analytics operations to the cloud.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 12, 2019

Yellowfin 9 marked by developer tools, revamped mobile app

The latest product update from BI vendor Yellowfin features new dashboard design tools, a revamped mobile app and a repackaged data presentation platform.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 7, 2019

Evolution of analytics marked by wider dissemination of data

With BI platforms getting easier to use by the year and enabling more self-service users in process, the value of analytics is being realized by a growing audience.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 7, 2019

Analytics revolution has spread the wealth of information

Business intelligence over the last 20 years has been marked by the opening up of data to everyday business users after it was once the sole possession of IT departments.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 7, 2019

NLP makes augmented data discovery a reality in analytics

BI vendors are increasingly using NLP technology to make their products work more like a web search, with simplified user interfaces and improved ease of use for customers.

By Lisa Morgan • Nov. 6, 2019

Looker 7 advances embedded BI capabilities of vendor’s suite

The latest update of Looker's business intelligence platform, unveiled Wednesday at the vendor's user conference, is highlighted by improved embedded analytics capabilities.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 6, 2019

Microsoft launches Azure Synapse Analytics for the cloud

New Microsoft Azure analytics service provides cloud BI and machine learning, enabling users to do analytics on data in various sources, including data warehouses and data lakes.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 4, 2019

Salesforce acquisition of Tableau likely to bring changes

Since Salesforce's Tableau acquisition, many have wondered what will happen to Tableau's on-premises customers. Find out what industry experts have to say.

By Maria Korolov • Oct. 29, 2019

Domo BI platform helps Dal-Tile solve data management problems

Overwhelmed by an influx of data, Dal-Tile, a leading manufacturer of ceramic tile products, went to Domo to try to solve its business intelligence problems.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 29, 2019

ThoughtSpot-Qlik battle shines a light on non-compete contracts

ThoughtSpot and Qlik CEOs squabble online over controversial but widely used non-compete agreements and the larger impact these contracts have on the IT industry.

By Shaun Sutner • Oct. 29, 2019

AI for BI at the heart of third-generation analytics

Doug Henschen, analyst at Constellation Research, details in a Q&A some of the findings of his recent report on augmented capabilities in BI platforms.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 25, 2019

AI at the core of next-generation BI

AI is part of BI platforms, but this is only the start of a new analytics generation. In a Q&A, Constellation Research analyst Doug Henschen discusses AI tools in BI platforms.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 25, 2019

NLP progress in BI and analytics slowed by language barriers

Natural language processing shows potential in simplifying data access and deriving deeper insights, but NLP's strengths can be its weaknesses in reaching the Promised Land.

By Lisa Morgan • Oct. 24, 2019

SAP Tennis Analytics adds tool to track patterns within points

Players and coaches in the Women's Tennis Association are now able to discover the tendencies of their opponents within a given point thanks to SAP's Patterns of Play.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 23, 2019

New tools add AI power to Teradata Vantage platform

Teradata unveiled Vantage Analyst and Customer Experience, two new tools now part of the vendor's analytics platform, on Tuesday at its user conference in Denver.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 22, 2019

SAS analytics platform aided by $1 billion AI investment

The SAS suite of business intelligence products is quickly seeing results from the vendor's $1 billion commitment to AI seven months after the investment was made public.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 17, 2019

ThoughtSpot BI platform an early adopter of AI

Due to AI, ThoughtSpot's analytics tools have been accessible to citizen data scientists from the start, Andrew Yeung, the vendor's senior director of product marketing, said in a Q&A.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 15, 2019

ThoughtSpot 6 advances AI power of BI platform

New augmented intelligence and machine learning tools, along with a new mobile app, highlight the release of the new update to the ThoughtSpot business intelligence platform.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 15, 2019

Promethium tool taps natural language processing for analytics

The software, called Data Navigation System, was designed to enable non-technical users to make complex SQL requests using plain human language and ease the delivery of data.

By Tanner Harding • Oct. 10, 2019

Intelligence as a service is key to nonprofit’s urban planning

Cobalt Community Research, a nonprofit organization based in Michigan, uses data collected and packaged by TruFactor for urban planning projects.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 9, 2019

GoodData BI customers now able to use data on Amazon Redshift

GoodData partners with Amazon Web Services to allow the vendor's users to store and manage their data in Amazon Redshift, a cloud data warehouse powered by AWS.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 8, 2019

Acquisition of AI lab a benefit for Alteryx BI users

With the acquisition of Feature Labs, a startup founded at MIT, Alteryx is making a heavy investment in augmented intelligence and machine learning capabilities.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 7, 2019

Tibco Spotfire BI platform gets an AI boost

Tibco Spotfire customers will benefit from AI upgrades.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 4, 2019