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…

Lightdash Emerges to ‘Fix’ The Data Analyst Workflow

The company behind Lightdash, a new open source data analytics and exploration tool designed around dbt and frequently compared to Looker, today announced a seed round of funding worth $8.4 million as well as the launch Read more…

How Data Visualization Drives Better Business Decisions and Outcomes

I’ve run software development teams (some with more than 1,000 members) over the past 25 years. The software development discipline has exploded in growth due to the need for technology support across all aspects of bu Read more…

Data Dashboarding Must Evolve or Face Irrelevance

Data visualization has become synonymous with business intelligence (BI) data dashboarding. But these dashboards have a weakness: They are only as good as the humans--and AI--that interpret it. For businesses to truly Read more…

Oracle Analytics Cloud: Everything But the Kitchen Sink

Oracle is taking a “more is more” approach with the latest release of Oracle Analytics Cloud, its do-everything analytics and ML platform. Need explainable machine learning? How about graph analytics? Automated data 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…

Johns Hopkins Launches COVID-19 Mortality Calculator, Aims to Inform Vaccine Prioritization

The first COVID-19 vaccine doses are going out in the United States, predominantly to frontline healthcare workers. Unfortunately, the vaccines are currently extremely limited, meaning that state governments are having t Read more…

Grafana Labs Visualizes Growth with $50M Round

Grafana Labs, developer of a popular open source tool for visualizing logs and metrics, today announced that it’s raised $50 million in a Series B round of investment. The company’s CEO, Raj Dutt, tells Datanami the Read more…

For Data Lovers, COVID-19 Is the Best, Worst of Times

COVID-19 has generated its share of data. Never before have we been witness to a global pandemic with such an arsenal of data collection and analytics tools at our disposal. But depending on where you sit, the explosion Read more…

Sisu Seeks to Answer Why

In a typical business, analysts are tasked with using data to finding answers to questions. They’ll often use a BI tool to explore and query data stored in analytical database to figure out why something happened. Desp Read more…

GoodData Offers Free Embedded Analytics

If you’re in the market for an embedded analytics solution, you might want to check out the new “freemium” offering unveiled by GoodData today. GoodData is one of the leaders in embedded analytics, with over 100 Read more…