
Tag: bi
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…
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…
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…
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…
Can Isima Be the Nutanix of Data Management?
Despite the technological advances in big data, companies continue to struggle to put it all together and manage data in an effective way. Now a company called Isima is stepping forward with a plan to build a platform th Read more…
Data.world Aims to Rethink Data Catalogs
What is a data catalog? If you answered that it’s simply an index that tells you where to find data, then Brett Hurt would like a word with you. As the co-founder and CEO of data.world, Hurt is looking to redefine what Read more…
Kepler AutoML Targets Next-Gen Business Analysts
As more companies roll out digital infrastructure, they are ingesting greater volumes of data that can be used by business analysts to gauge customer intent and boost transactions. Complexity and lack of data scientists Read more…
Blurred Lines: SAS and Microsoft To Go Deep in Analytics Partnership
The lines separating SAS and Microsoft analytics and AI software will blur as part of a major strategic expansion between the two companies announced today that will see Azure become the preferred cloud for SAS and techn Read more…
Databricks, Partners, Open a Unified ‘Lakehouse’
Coalescing around an open source storage layer, Databricks is pitching a new data management framework billed as combining the best attributes of data lakes and warehouses into what the company dubs a “lakehouse.” Read more…
IBM Adds AI to Planning Analytics
Among the emerging enterprise applications for AI are cloud-based business intelligence tools that can be used to collect, organize and explore financial data, helping planners move beyond their beloved spread sheets to Read more…