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Zoho Analytics update adds GenAI tools, data science studio

New capabilities for the vendor's GenAI assistant include insight generation, while a studio for data science and machine learning enables various personae to do predictive BI.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 12, 2024

Qlik AutoML update targets trust with visibility, simplicity

The vendor added new features that simplify developing and deploying machine learning models as well as provide greater visibility into performance to ensure trustworthy outputs.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 10, 2024

Data literacy training requires a dual approach

Data literacy training is a flexible learning process. Organizations can tailor training for their teams, but individuals can find educational resources to better their skills.

By Donald Farmer • Sept. 9, 2024

What is ad hoc analysis?

Ad hoc analysis is a business intelligence (BI) process designed to answer a specific business question by using company data from various sources.

By Jacqueline Biscobing, Rahul Awati, Katie Terrell Hanna • Sept. 4, 2024

What is business intelligence architecture (BI architecture)?

A business intelligence architecture is a framework for the various technologies an organization deploys to run business intelligence and analytics applications.

By Kinza Yasar , Mary Pratt • Sept. 4, 2024

GenAI demands greater emphasis on data quality

As GenAI explodes and enables enterprise decision-making at previously unseen speed and scale, accurate information to train models and applications becomes increasingly important.

By Eric Avidon • Sept. 3, 2024

6 key steps form a data-driven decision-making framework

A data-driven decision-making framework provides guidelines that any organization or individual can use. Improve decision-making on a professional and personal level.

By Bill Schmarzo • Aug. 28, 2024

What is sentiment analysis?

Sentiment analysis, also referred to as 'opinion mining,' is an approach to natural language processing (NLP) that identifies the emotional tone behind a body of text.

By Nick Barney, Alexander Gillis • Aug. 28, 2024

GenAI evolving, remains dominant data and analytics trend

As enterprise use of generative AI evolves from theory to practice, it remains the dominant development focus, with governance and real-time streaming playing complementary roles.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 26, 2024

Evaluate 8 of the top embedded analytics tools

Selecting the right embedded analytics tool for your organization can be difficult. Use general criteria to evaluate eight of the top options and decide if one is the right fit.

By Donald Farmer • Aug. 20, 2024

You need analytics governance

Analytics governance might not seem exciting, but it can improve innovation and mitigate risks. It's also critical to responsible data management and analytics practices.

By Donald Farmer • Aug. 16, 2024

Collaborative business intelligence helps users connect data dots

Social BI enables users to interact with their organization's data -- and data experts -- in applications where they already collaborate and work.

By Jacob Roundy • Aug. 14, 2024

AR and VR data visualizations offer promising future

AR and VR data visualizations offer a new perspective to capture patterns and trends in complex data sets that traditional data visualizations struggle with.

By Robert Sheldon • Aug. 6, 2024

10 top data discovery tools for insights and visualizations

Data discovery can use sampling, profiling, visualizations or data mining to extract insights from data. These 10 top tools differ in scalability, performance and other features.

By Donald Farmer • Aug. 5, 2024

Google Cloud’s BigQuery gets AI injection, Looker to follow

The tech giant's latest analytics and data management moves include the general availability of Gemini in BigQuery and the imminent availability of Gemini in Looker.

By Eric Avidon • Aug. 1, 2024

Generative AI a top priority for Amazon QuickSight

Though the BI platform already enables users to analyze data and develop data products using natural language, AWS plans to do more to aid insight generation and user efficiency.

By Eric Avidon • July 26, 2024

What is a key performance indicator (KPI)? Strategy and guide

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are quantifiable business metrics that corporate executives, managers and other stakeholders use to track and analyze factors deemed crucial to meeting the organization's stated objectives.

By Robert Sheldon , Kinza Yasar , Craig Stedman • July 26, 2024

Knime adds new AI governance measures to analytics suite

The vendor's latest update adds connectivity to AI providers to enable GenAI development as well as governance features to address the growing use of GenAI and its inherent risks.

By Eric Avidon • July 24, 2024

Precisely aiding wildfire fight with risk assessment data

The data integrity vendor's specialized database includes added topographical and weather-related information to help organizations prepare for and predict catastrophic fires.

By Eric Avidon • July 24, 2024

The top augmented analytics tools vendors are offering

Augmented analytics tools play a crucial role in providing users of all technical skills levels access to AI and analytics daily. Consider 10 of the top options available.

By Jacob Roundy • July 19, 2024

Understand the BI lifecycle to build an effective architecture

Following and understanding the five steps of the business intelligence lifecycle is the foundation of a successful and effective BI architecture.

By Jeff McCormick • July 17, 2024

Teradata integrates with DataRobot to aid AI development

The partnership provides the data management and analytics vendor's users with more choice so that they can develop advanced models and applications with their preferred tools.

By Eric Avidon • July 16, 2024

AI readiness requires buy-in, technology and good governance

With interest in natural language processing, predictive analytics and other augmented intelligence rises, more than tooling is needed for enterprises to properly prepare.

By Eric Avidon • July 15, 2024

Tableau launches generative AI assistant, updates platform

The longtime analytics vendor made a Copilot for data preparation generally available with similar tools for data cataloging and dashboard development and analysis expected soon.

By Eric Avidon • July 12, 2024

MicroStrategy’s latest delivers embedded AI-powered insights

The longtime independent analytics vendor's new platform update combines embedded BI with generative AI to deliver AI-powered insights to users within the flow of their work.

By Eric Avidon • June 27, 2024