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ThoughtSpot AI agent Spotter enables conversational BI

The analytics vendor's new tool not only enables users to converse with data using natural language, but also has contextual awareness and autonomously makes suggestions.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 13, 2024

What is embedded analytics?

Embedded analytics is a data analysis technology that puts analytics capabilities within a business software application, platform or web portal instead of a separate tool.

By Mary Pratt • Nov. 12, 2024

SAS acquires synthetic data generator to aid AI development

The longtime analytics vendor plans to fold the intellectual property of Hazy into its existing synthetic data generation capabilities to help customers safely build AI tools.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 12, 2024

Google’s Looker taking an agentic approach to generative AI

The analytics vendor aims to help customers develop agents, built on a foundation of trusted data, that enable deep analysis and relieve users of time-consuming tasks.

By Eric Avidon • Nov. 8, 2024

What is composable analytics?

Composable analytics is an approach to data analytics and business intelligence (BI) that lets an organization combine modular components from different data and analytics tools.

By Sean Kerner • Nov. 7, 2024

What is a metrics store?

A metrics store -- also sometimes referred to as a metrics layer, metrics platform or headless business intelligence (BI) -- is a centralized repository for metrics definitions, including the calculations of metrics.

By Sean Kerner • Nov. 6, 2024

10 top benefits of business intelligence for companies

By using BI tools to analyze data and drive better business decisions, organizations can improve their operations and gain the benefits and advantages outlined here.

By Donald Farmer • Nov. 5, 2024

How to measure data literacy in the AI era

Improving data literacy as an individual or organization starts with measuring where you are. An AI and data framework provides six criteria to track progress.

By Peter Spotts, Packt Publishing • Nov. 5, 2024

Traditional BI vs. self-service BI: Differences and uses

Traditional and self-service business intelligence are different approaches to BI initiatives. Here's what you need to know to decide which is right for your BI needs.

By Chris Tozzi • Nov. 5, 2024

What is decision intelligence?

Decision intelligence is an emerging field that combines data science, artificial intelligence (AI) and decision theory to improve organizational decision-making.

By Sean Kerner • Oct. 31, 2024

Data-driven decision-making case study: Indeed

Putting data-driven decision-making into practice can be difficult. Indeed shares three examples of how it uses data to improve the user experience and employee workflows.

By Mary Pratt • Oct. 24, 2024

What is a business intelligence dashboard (BI dashboard)?

A business intelligence dashboard, or BI dashboard, is a data visualization and analysis tool that displays on one screen the status of key performance indicators (KPIs) and other important business metrics and data points for an organization, department, team or process.

By Cameron Hashemi-Pour, Shaun Sutner • Oct. 24, 2024

Databricks lakehouse a secret weapon for WNBA’s Fever

The vendor's platform has helped Pacers Sports & Entertainment -- parent company of the NBA's Pacers and WNBA's Fever -- free data from isolation to fuel an analytics-driven future.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 23, 2024

Amplitude adds A/B testing tool to analytics suite

Both the vendor's new feature as well as its recent acquisition of Command AI aim to make it easier for business users to work with its tools without requiring expert help.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 18, 2024

What is real-time business intelligence (RTBI)?

Real-time business intelligence (RTBI) combines data analytics and various data processing tools to enable access to the most relevant, up-to-the-minute data and visualizations.

By Andrew Zola, Scott Robinson • Oct. 17, 2024

Tableau platform update targets need, eschews AI hype

Following the recent unveiling of significant AI-related tools, the vendor's final 2024 release adds practical features aimed at making Tableau easier to deploy as well as consume.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 16, 2024

Databricks Apps a toolkit that simplifies AI development

Features including native integrations with development platforms and automatic provisioning of serverless compute enable customers to more easily develop and deploy applications.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 8, 2024

What is self-service business intelligence (self-service BI)?

Self-service business intelligence (BI) is an approach to data analytics that enables nontechnical business users to access and explore data sets.

By Nick Barney, Scott Robinson, Craig Stedman • Oct. 3, 2024

MicroStrategy update aims to improve generative AI accuracy

The longtime analytics vendor's latest release addresses the accuracy of artificial intelligence outputs and includes an integration that enables users to query bots within Teams.

By Eric Avidon • Oct. 1, 2024

5 reasons to use AI and machine learning in a data warehouse

Using AI and ML in a data warehouse gives the whole organization a single source of truth that can align decision making and foster better insights.

By Jacob Roundy • Sept. 27, 2024

ThoughtSpot taps Salesforce exec Karkhanis to be new CEO

As analytics enters a new era dominated by GenAI, the vendor has named former Salesforce Sales Cloud and Einstein Analytics leader Ketan Karkhanis its new chief executive officer.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 26, 2024

7 skills for improved data visualizations

Great data visualizations require a combination of analytics, design and communication. Master seven key skills for data visualizations to effectively communicate data insights.

By Robert Sheldon • Sept. 25, 2024

Teradata ClearScape Analytics update targets ROI on AI, ML

The vendor's latest platform update adds features such as a PySpark conversion tool and AutoML aimed at helping customers improve returns on their investments in AI and ML models.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 17, 2024

Confluent platform update targets developer choice, security

The vendor's latest follows its recent acquisition of WarpStream and adds new security features, along with support for the Table API to provide new options for Apache Flink users.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 17, 2024

Tableau Einstein is a new BI platform with AI at its core

The new platform marks an evolution for the longtime analytics vendor, making AI the focus with capabilities such as agent-based insight generation and real-time analysis.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 13, 2024