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IBM Unveils watsonx BI Assistant to Simplify Business Decision-Making

As the business world eagerly embraces the potential of GenAI, many companies are discovering that there are still lots of challenges along the way. One of the key challenges is complexity.  Companies are struggling Read more…

Sigma Secures $200M Round to Advance Its BI and Analytics Solutions

Sigma Computing, a cloud-based analytics solutions provider, has raised $200 million in Series D funding to further advance its efforts in broadening BI use within organizations by enabling users to query and analyze dat Read more…

MicroStrategy Fleshes Out AI-for-BI Strategy, Bets Big On Bitcoin

MicroStrategy this week unveiled a new customizable AI bot called Auto that lets business users interact with MicroStrategy’s data analytics offerings through natural language. But investors in the publicly traded Virg Read more…

GoodData Unveils Major Update to Redefine the Landscape for BI Practitioners

In the realm of business intelligence (BI) and analytic platforms, artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a behind-the-scenes force for a while. However, the advent of GenAI has revolutionized the way organizations levera Read more…

ThoughtSpot Touts ‘Data Renaissance’ with GenAI Update

Analytics tool provider ThoughtSpot today rolled out a host of new generative AI capabilities that it claims will set off a “data renaissance” among its users. The key advances that will enable this goal revolve arou Read more…

Why a Universal Semantic Layer is the Key to Unlock Value from Your Data

A semantic layer is a way to represent data so that it can be easily understood by business users, making it easier for them to interpret and use it directly, without a dependence on data engineering teams. Wikipedia def Read more…

Qlik Completes Acquisition of Talend

BI and analytics provider Qlik announced its intent to acquire Talend earlier this year, and now it has formally completed the deal, giving it an immediate boost in the data management department. Data sprawl, data qu Read more…

LLMs Are the Dinosaur-Killing Meteor for Old BI, ThoughtSpot CEO Says

When the dust from the bombardment of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) on the market finally clears, there will be fewer BI and analytics vendors left standing, ThoughtSpot CEO Sudheesh Nair said. “I t Read more…

Semantic Layer Belongs in Middleware, and dbt Wants to Deliver It

The folks at dbt Labs think the data transformation tool is the proper place to implement and manage a semantic data layer, as opposed to the BI tool or the data warehouse, where it has traditionally resided. And later t Read more…

Which BI and Analytics Vendors Are Incorporating ChatGPT, and How

The generative AI revolution is upon us, and it’s having an impact across all of IT, including the business intelligence and analytics tools used by analysts and executives to glean insights out data. But BI and analyt Read more…

Rupert Is Closing the Analytics to Action Loop with $8M Seed Funding

The era of speculative analytics projects is over, according to Rupert, maker of an analytics distribution platform that has just raised $8 million in a seed funding round. Analytics tools are helping businesses uncov Read more…

How Snowplow Breaks Down Data Barriers

If you have suspicions about your data, you’re not alone. The AI and data analytics dreams of many a company have been broken by poor data management and defective ETL pipelines. But by enforcing data schema at the poi Read more…

The Future of BI Is AI, Says Qlik CEO Capone

The future of business intelligence will be defined by how well AI and data science capabilities can be integrated into traditional analytic and decision-support tools that can impact the business at the speed of data ge Read more…

Business Intelligence Platform Omni Launches with $27M

Business intelligence platform Omni publicly launched today with $26.9 million in total funding. The company believes users shouldn’t have to choose between a governed model and a fast business intelligence tool, and i Read more…

ThoughtSpot Looks to the Future of Analytics

ThoughtSpot executives have a firm grasp on where they sit in the recent history of business intelligence and analytic tools, being part of the so-called third generation of products. While predicting the future is a not Read more…

Google Cloud Opens Door to the Lakehouse with BigLake

Google Cloud made its way into the lakehouse arena today with the launch of Big Lake, a new storage engine that melds the governance of its data warehousing offering, BigQuery, with the flexibility of open data formats a Read more…

Narrowing the AI-BI Gap with Exploratory Analysis

The worlds of AI and BI occupy distinct places in the analytics continuum, which is most often understood with concepts like descriptive analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics. Users can leverage des Read more…

Insightsoftware Loads Up on Embedded Analytics with Logi, Izenda Deals

Insightsoftware, the acquisitive enterprise software vendor that purchased Logi Analytics earlier this month, is next acquiring Izenda, an embedded business intelligence specialist. The buyer based in Raleigh, N.C., s Read more…

Augmented Analytics Is the New BI Battle Ground, Gartner Says

Forget about nifty visualizations in business intelligence (BI) tools--everybody has those now, according to Gartner. The real action in the BI market is around augmented analytics, or how well the BI tools incorporate m Read more…

Knowi Aims to ‘Elevate’ Answers Within Slack

Business intelligence software company Knowi today launched Elevate, a new offering that’s designed to help non-technical users ask questions of data through the company’s unified analytics platform. The software use Read more…

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