Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of June 12, 2025.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items.

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Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of June 12, 2025

Anaconda and Databricks Partner to Secure Enterprise AI

Anaconda and Databricks have announced a partnership to deliver secure, enterprise-grade open source Python packages natively within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. This integration addresses key challenges in enterprise AI development—such as dependency management, security vulnerabilities, and governance—by combining Anaconda’s curated Python ecosystem with Databricks’ scalable infrastructure.

Read more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/anaconda-partners-databricks-bridge-security-150000712.html

AssureSoft Partners with Databricks for Real-Time Data AI

AssureSoft has joined the Databricks Partner Network to boost clients’ real-time data and AI capabilities, aiming to deliver faster insights and smarter decision-making across industries such as SaaS, healthtech, fintech, and e-commerce. The partnership leverages Databricks’ unified data and AI platform, enabling AssureSoft’s certified teams to help organizations transform data into a strategic asset and build adaptive AI-driven solutions. This move underscores AssureSoft’s commitment to high-quality, value-driven software and sustained growth.

Read more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/assuresoft-partners-databricks-enhance-real-140000789.html

Databricks Unveils Databricks One for Enterprise-Wide Data & AI Access

Databricks has launched Databricks One, a new user experience designed to make data and AI capabilities accessible to all business users—not just technical teams—across the enterprise. Databricks One introduces a redesigned, intuitive interface featuring AI/BI dashboards, the conversational AI/BI Genie assistant for natural language queries, and custom Databricks apps, all within a secure, code-free environment.

Read more → https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-unveils-databricks-one-new-experience-bring-data-and-ai

DATA POEM Launches New Large Causal AI Model

POEM365 launches with a robust foundation built on over 250+ billion integrated transaction records spanning 15,000 brands and $5 trillion in spend. Rigorously tested across varied datasets, DATA POEM’s large causal architecture demonstrates industry-leading accuracy, exceeding the performance of major tech platforms.

Read more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250612839314/en/DATA-POEM-Launches-POEM365-The-Worlds-First-Large-Causal-AI-Model-LCM

MathCo Launches Databricks Center of Excellence

MathCo has launched a Databricks Center of Excellence to help enterprises accelerate their readiness for agentic AI solutions. The initiative is designed to provide organizations with best practices, specialized expertise, and tailored frameworks for deploying advanced analytics and AI workloads on Databricks. MathCo’s center aims to bridge the gap between data engineering and AI-driven business outcomes, supporting faster adoption of next-generation data architectures.

Read more → https://cbs4indy.com/business/press-releases/globenewswire/9464998/mathco-launches-databricks-center-of-excellence-to-accelerate-agentic-readiness-for-enterprises/

Qlik Expands Integration with Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Qlik has announced expanded integration with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, further streamlining analytics and data management for enterprise users. The enhanced partnership enables organizations to leverage Qlik’s analytics capabilities directly within Databricks, supporting more efficient data workflows, improved governance, and accelerated insights. This move is aimed at helping businesses maximize the value of their data investments while maintaining robust security and compliance standards.

Read more → https://www.qlik.com/us/news/company/press-room/press-releases/qlik-expands-integration-with-the-databricks-data-intelligence-platform

ThoughtSpot Unveils DataSpot for Agentic Analytics on Databricks

ThoughtSpot has launched DataSpot, a new offering on the Databricks Marketplace that delivers real-time, governed, AI-powered insights directly from the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. DataSpot integrates ThoughtSpot’s AI-driven analytics with Databricks’ data infrastructure, enabling business users to access trustworthy insights via intuitive search and AI.

Read more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/thoughtspot-unveils-dataspot-accelerate-agentic-140000978.html

Expert Insights

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

WATCH: AI to Value & Building the AI Ecosystem featuring Amalgam Insights CEO & Chief Analyst Hyoun Park

Amalgam Insights CEO Hyoun Park shares how enterprises can turn AI initiatives into measurable business value. He’ll explore what it takes to build a scalable AI ecosystem—from data and infrastructure to governance and talent—so organizations can move from experimentation to enterprise-wide impact.

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WATCH: Expert Roundtable: Beyond Human Speed: AI Agents Transforming Real-Time Data Analysis

This panel explores the evolution of AI from passive assistants (like copilots) to active, autonomous collaborators that can execute, manage, and even optimize complex business processes. The session focuses on how AI agents are no longer just helping — they’re doing — and what that means for workflows, workforce design, and business operations.

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WATCH: Expert Roundtable: AI Agents in Proactive Data Management: Governance, Ethics & Architecture

This session explores how AI agents are being developed and deployed to anticipate, prevent, and respond to issues in real-time through data-driven insights — with a focus on the governance, ethics, and architecture behind such predictive systems.

With Fox Consulting’s President Cher (The Datanista) Fox as panel moderator and featuring Dutch Schwartz, DataPrivacy CMO Kohei Kurihara, Noelle Russell (Microsoft MVP, AI), Raghavan Chellappan, and Graphwise’s Sumit Pal.

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WATCH: The Agentic AI Future is Here featuring Ferraro Consulting Founder & CEO John Santaferraro

Ferraro Consulting CEO John Santaferraro unpacks the rise of agentic AI—intelligent systems that act autonomously on behalf of users—and what it means for the future of business. He’ll explore how these AI agents are reshaping work, decision-making, and digital transformation and what organizations must do now to prepare for this next wave of innovation.

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WATCH: Agents Today & Tomorrow: What You Need to Know Now

The Hackett Group’s John Thompson breaks down the current and future landscape of AI agents—what they are, how they’re being used today, and where they’re headed. He’ll offer practical insights into how organizations can prepare for agent-driven transformation, from early adoption to enterprise integration.

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WATCH: Expert Roundtable: From Copilot to Coworker: How AI Agents are Redefining Business Processes

This show explores the evolution of AI from passive assistants (like copilots) to active, autonomous collaborators that can execute, manage, and even optimize complex business processes. The session focuses on how AI agents are no longer just helping — they’re doing — and what that means for workflows, workforce design, and business operations.

With Global Intelligent Automation Leader Doug Shannon as panel moderator, and featuring Advait Patel, Aparna Achanta, Jessica Wynter Martin, Tony Moroney, and Tony Rhem.

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Mini Jam Q2, 2025 – AI Agents of Change: Watch All Sessions On-Demand

Centered on the theme ‘AI Agent of Change’, this quarterly Insight Jam virtual event explores the emerging role of AI agents in reshaping the Future of  Work through Automation, driving innovation, and facilitating adaptation to the new reality of this AI moment. Be sure to register free for InsightJam.com here to watch all the sessions live or on-demand.

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Paula Caligiuri, PhD.: You Can Work Alone – But You Won’t Win Alone

According to our April 2025 report, 85 percent of tech professionals say relationship-building is very important. Yet, over a quarter of the respondents (30 percent) struggle to maintain strong professional connections, and a surprising number (26 percent) prefer to work alone, even when collaboration would drive better results.

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Monica Kay Royal: What are AI Hallucinations?

If you use GenAI tools like ChatGPT, you know that some results can be a bit strange, even wrong at times. This is called a hallucination. What causes these tools to hallucinate and how can we prevent that from happening? Many of us think of hallucinations as seeing something that doesn’t exist or hearing noises that no one else can hear. In the context of AI, hallucinations occur when the model makes a prediction that doesn’t come from the input data.

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Dr, Joe Perez: The Empire of Presumption and the Power of Data

History has no shortage of characters who seized power through force of will alone, believing their own vision was strong enough to keep an empire intact. Napoleon Bonaparte was a such an individual whose one-track mind filled with presumptuous ambition reshaped not only France but also Italy, forging new political structures on the foundation of his own confidence rather than measured governance.

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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of June 6, 2025.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items.

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Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of June 6, 2025

Cube Launches Agentic Analytics Platform on Universal Semantic Layer

Cube has introduced an agentic analytics platform built on a universal semantic layer, enabling organizations to create, manage, and deploy AI-driven analytics across diverse data sources. The platform simplifies data modeling and governance, empowering business users and data teams to generate actionable insights with greater speed and consistency.

Read more → https://insideainews.com/2025/06/03/cube-launches-agentic-analytics-platform-built-on-a-universal-semantic-layer/

Databricks and Salesforce Enable Zero-Copy Data Sharing

Databricks has announced the public preview of Salesforce Data Cloud File Sharing within Unity Catalog, allowing users to query Salesforce Data Cloud objects directly from the Databricks platform—without building pipelines or duplicating data. This integration empowers organizations to run advanced analytics and machine learning on live Salesforce data, streamlining workflows and ensuring real-time insights. The feature enhances data governance and maximizes the value of Salesforce investments for analytics, marketing, and operations teams.

ead more → https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-public-preview-salesforce-data-cloud-file-sharing-unity-catalog

Incorta Connect Brings Fast, Accurate ERP Data to Snowflake

Incorta has expanded its Connect platform to support Snowflake, enabling organizations to deliver ERP data to Snowflake environments with unmatched speed, accuracy, and efficiency. The integration streamlines data ingestion and transformation, helping enterprises accelerate analytics and decision-making on their most critical business data.

Read more → https://www.wdhn.com/business/press-releases/globenewswire/9462644/incorta-connect-expands-to-snowflake-delivering-erp-data-with-unmatched-speed-accuracy-and-efficiency/

Microsoft Launches Live PL-300 Series for Power BI Certification

Microsoft is rolling out a new live-streamed PL-300 series starting June 11 to help professionals prepare for the Power BI Data Analyst certification. The series offers interactive, expert-led sessions covering data preparation, modeling, visualization, and governance, with practical demos and real-time Q&A. Designed for all skill levels, the program aims to build real-world Power BI expertise and boost career prospects for data analysts and business intelligence professionals.

Read more → https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/your-road-to-power-bi-certification-starts-here/

Qlik Adds Native Support for Snowflake Iceberg Tables

Qlik has announced native integration with Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables, enhancing its analytics platform’s ability to handle large-scale, open table formats. This update enables organizations to leverage Qlik’s analytics and data integration capabilities directly on Iceberg tables managed by Snowflake, improving performance and flexibility for enterprises dealing with complex, high-volume data environments. The move is aimed at customers seeking to modernize data architectures without sacrificing governance or interoperability.

Read more → https://www.qlik.com/us/news/company/press-room/press-releases/qlik-adds-native-support-for-snowflake-managed-iceberg-tables

Sigma Integrates Snowflake Semantic Layer and AI SQL

Sigma announced native support for Snowflake Semantic Views and AI SQL, enabling governed metric analysis and unstructured data querying within its spreadsheet-like interface. The integration allows joint customers to unify structured ERP data with unstructured files (e.g., contracts, images) using Snowflake Cortex AI, streamlining analytics for finance, legal, and operational teams. This eliminates manual data prep and accelerates insights across hybrid datasets.

Read more → https://www.sigmacomputing.com/resources/announcements/sigma-launches-native-semantic-layer-integration-and-ai-sql-capabilities-on-snowflake-ai-data-cloud/

Snowflake Acquires Crunchy Data for Enterprise-Grade Postgres

Snowflake has acquired Crunchy Data to bring an enterprise-ready Postgres offering to its AI Data Cloud. The acquisition will enable Snowflake customers to leverage fully managed, secure, and scalable Postgres databases alongside their existing Snowflake workloads, expanding options for data management and application development.

Read more → https://www.snowflake.com/en/news/press-releases/snowflake-acquires-crunchy-data-to-bring-enterprise-ready-postgres-offering-to-the-ai-data-cloud/

Speedata Raises $44M for Big Data Analytics Chip

Israeli startup Speedata has secured $44 million in funding to launch what it claims is the world’s first chip designed specifically to accelerate big data analytics workloads. The new processor targets the second-largest compute workload after AI, promising significant performance gains for enterprises grappling with massive data volumes. The funding round, led by prominent investors, will support Speedata’s go-to-market efforts and further R&D, potentially reshaping the analytics hardware landscape for data-driven organizations.

Read more → https://www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/speedata-raises-44m-to-launch-first-ever-chip-designed-specifically-for-accelerating-big-data-analytics–computes-second-largest-workload-302472036.html

ThoughtSpot Launches Agentic Analytics for Snowflake

ThoughtSpot has introduced its Agentic Analytics Platform for Snowflake, empowering users to move seamlessly from data insights to automated actions. The platform leverages AI-driven analytics and workflow automation, allowing customers to operationalize data and drive business outcomes directly within their Snowflake environments. This launch aims to bridge the gap between analytics and execution, targeting enterprises seeking to maximize the value of their cloud data investments.

Read more → https://www.thoughtspot.com/press-releases/thoughtspot-launches-agentic-analytics-platform-for-snowflake-empowering-customers-to-from-insights-to-actions

Expert Insights

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

What to Expect at Mini Jam LIVE, Q2, 2025: AI Agents of Change on June 12

Centered on the theme ‘AI Agent of Change’, this quarterly Insight Jam virtual event explores the emerging role of AI agents in reshaping the Future of  Work through Automation, driving innovation, and facilitating adaptation to the new reality of this AI moment. Be sure to register free for InsightJam.com here to watch all the sessions live or on-demand.

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Paula Caligiuri, PhD.: When Smart Gets in the Way

Tech teams are full of brilliant people. Experts who solve problems fast, think analytically and back up their decisions with data. But that brilliance can become a blind spot. According to our April 2025 report, 84 percent of tech professionals say perspective-taking is critical, yet 25 percent struggle to reconcile conflicting viewpoints. More telling still: 29 percent believe their own perspective is generally the most effective, even on diverse, cross-functional teams.

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NEW Episode of Evolving ERP Featuring Dan Aldridge: SAP vs. Infor: An Honest Comparison

In this episode, Judith and Dan preview their upcoming e-book comparing SAP and Infor ERP solutions, going beyond typical sales pitches to provide real-world insights from their combined decades of experience. They discuss how SAP excels in breadth of functionality and large enterprise scalability, particularly in finance and procurement, while Infor’s Cloud Suite Enterprise focuses on deep vertical industry expertise in manufacturing, automotive, and aerospace & defense.

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For consideration in future data science news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.

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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of May 30, 2025.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items.

For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review, join Insight Jam, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.

Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of May 30, 2025

Apache Spark 4.0 is Now Available in Databricks Runtime 17.0

Spark 4.0 is designed to be more powerful, ANSI-compliant, and user-friendly than ever, while maintaining compatibility with existing Spark workloads. In this post, we explain the key features and improvements introduced in Spark 4.0 and how they elevate your big data processing experience.

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AtScale Unveils New Product Innovations at 2025 Summit

A central theme of the 2025 summit was an open standard for semantic standardization to prevent semantic lock-in. AtScale officially introduced the Semantic Modeling Language (SML)—the industry’s first open-source language designed for defining, sharing, and operationalizing semantic models.

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Chalk Raises $50 Million in Series A Funding for AI Inference Tools

Existing solutions like Databricks and Snowflake solve training data pipelines, and feature stores provide low-latency access to pre-computed data. But these incumbents don’t provide a solution for applications that require fresh data, with complex computation, at inference time.

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ClickHouse Raises $350 Million in Series C Funding

This combined funding will be used to scale product development, support global expansion, and deepen partnerships with customers and technology providers building the next wave of AI-native applications. In addition to this financing, ClickHouse has secured a $100 million credit facility led by Stifel and Goldman Sachs.

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DataRobot Launches Open-Source Framework for Performant Agentics

Syftr empowers AI practitioners to programmatically discover and implement the best combinations of components, parameters, tools, and strategies for agentic use cases, optimized for accuracy, processing speed, and cost.

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dbt Labs Unveils New dbt Fusion Engine

Fusion, built on Rust and equipped with native SQL comprehension, introduces a lightning-fast developer experience that delivers  productivity, data velocity, and platform intelligence to drive substantial cost savings. dbt Labs also launched its VS Code extension, unlocking broad access to the power of Fusion for local developers, and is introducing a free, source-available version of the Fusion engine with a subset of features.

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Deccan AI Raises New Investment for AI Model Training Platform

Founded by Rukesh Reddy, Deccan AI delivers pristine model training and eval data to top AI labs. Its network of freelancers enables a support for complex AI workflows such as agentic evaluations, multi-modal data labeling, and code-based tasks.

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ExpertOps AI Releases Process 2.0 Platform

Designed with governance, transparency, and human oversight in mind, the platform supports safe and scalable AI deployment aligned with regulatory standards like HIPAA, GDPR, and SOX. Process 2.0 is available immediately for enterprise and SMB adoption. A developer-powered AI Agent Marketplace is also in the works, allowing businesses and creators to customize and monetize industry-specific digital employees.

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Hex Secures $70 Million in Funding for AI Data Science

Hex is taking an integrated approach and bringing users of all technicality levels and use cases together in one place. With AI woven into every layer of the workflow, Hex accelerates speed-to-insight, eliminates redundant work, and allows data teams to scale impact across their organizations.

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Infragistics Announces App Builder Updates: Ultimate 25.1

The enhanced Infragistics Ultimate UI/UX toolkit offers a comprehensive library of enterprise-grade UI controls and includes the exclusive low-code WYSIWYG App Builder for developing modern, high-performance, and engaging apps across major frameworks.

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LandingAI Unveils Agentic Document Extraction

Document processing remains a significant hurdle for many enterprises, often incurring high costs and requiring substantial manual intervention. Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) goes beyond traditional OCR and fine-tuned LLMs by utilizing layout-aware parsing, visual grounding, and no-template setup, allowing for quick deployment and dependable outcomes without the need for fine-tuning or model training.

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PlainID Launches Policy Management for Agentic AI

Policy Management for Agentic AI enables organizations to define granular policies that control what data AI agents can access, how they process it, and which actions they may take—ensuring that every AI-driven workflow abides by corporate and regulatory mandates.

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Qlik Says: AI is the Macro Strategy but Data Complexity Persists

Amid mounting pressure from investors for measurable returns on AI investments, the data underscores the growing urgency to turn AI ambition into real-world results. The urgency around AI execution is particularly pronounced among younger executives. The survey found 99 percent of leaders aged 25-34 view proactive automation as critical to business success, compared to 83 percent of executives aged 55 and older.

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Sisense Launches New ‘Intelligence’ AI-Powered Tools

The assistant is complemented by a robust suite of GenAI capabilities that make analytics more accessible and actionable. Overall, Sisense Intelligence represents a fundamental innovation in how organizations leverage and extract insights from their data, make smarter business decisions, and drive more impactful outcomes.

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ThoughtSpot Expands in Japan

Over the past year, ThoughtSpot has supported leading organizations across Japan turn to ThoughtSpot to drive AI-powered data-driven decision making and innovation. This is reflected among ThoughtSpot’s new and expanding customers, who are in some of Japan’s most respected enterprises, including Toyota, Omron, Kyocera, Seiko Epson, Okumuragumi and JGC.

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Expert Insights

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Paula Caligiuri, PhD.:

According to our April 2025 report, a staggering 93 percent of tech professionals agree that curiosity is “very” or “extremely” important. But nearly half (47 percent) say they struggle to find the time to explore new tools, processes, or ideas.  In the report, tech professionals also cite difficulty identifying which ideas are worth pursuing, fear of wasting time on dead ends, and limited opportunities to experiment in their roles.

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NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst AI with John Santaferraro Featuring RapidCanvas CEO Rahul Pangam: What Will BI Look Like in 3 Years?

They discuss how AI is fundamentally transforming BI from template-based dashboards to conversational, agent-driven platforms that can handle end-to-end data processes. The conversation explores how generative AI and agentic AI will create natural language interfaces, autonomous agents, and strategic thought partnerships that make data-driven decision making accessible without extensive technical teams.

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On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosts Impetus, Forrester Research & Amazon QuickSight for Exclusive Show on Unlocking the Power of GenBI

GenAI-based BI (commonly referred as GenBI) is rapidly emerging as the new standard to deliver actionable insights that can power superior decision-making while increasing effectiveness, responsiveness, and cost savings for organizations across industries. However, organizations must navigate a dynamic set of technologies and capabilities to ensure their GenBI solutions are quickly providing trusted business insights, operational excellence, while delivering bottom-line cost savings in parallel.

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For consideration in future data science news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.

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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of May 23, 2025.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items.

For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review, join Insight Jam, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.

Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of May 23, 2025

Cloudera Unveils New AI Data Visualization

The offering is an AI tool designed to democratize insights across the data lifecycle, enabling data engineers, business analysts, and data scientists to seamlessly communicate, collaborate, and share insights, without compromising data security or governance – all through the common language of visualization.

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Databricks Announces Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 On-Platform

With full integration into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, enterprise teams can now securely build, evaluate, and govern Claude-powered AI agents using their own data — with centralized governance and observability.  This advances our mission to enable enterprises to build intelligent agents that can reason over their data.

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Microsoft Announces New Chat with Your Data Experience in Power BI

Your critical business data is at your fingertips in Power BI, but sometimes finding the right report or semantic model can feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. You know you’ve seen it before, you know the general topic, maybe you even remember the name of the visual you’re trying to hunt down. But you cannot seem to remember the name of the report or what workspace you saw it in. That’s where the new standalone Copilot experience comes in

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SEMI and Purdue University Set to Launch New AI & Analytics Courses

Available through the SEMI University learning platform, the courses were developed to equip semiconductor professionals to integrate AI and data-driven approaches in today’s competitive industry landscape.

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Sigma Computing Unveils New Cloud Data Platform Writeback Features

With the introduction of the new File Column Type feature, teams can connect unstructured content with structured data for the first time, making complex, real-world workflows fully executable inside Sigma. Also announced today were upcoming features that continue to expand on Sigma’s platform capabilities, including the ability to build Python-powered data science apps and natural language-built data apps.

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Expert Insights

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Paula Caligiuri, PhD.: The Curiosity Deficit: Why Tech Teams Are Getting Smarter But Less Innovative

According to our April 2025 report, a staggering 93 percent of tech professionals agree that curiosity is “very” or “extremely” important. But nearly half (47 percent) say they struggle to find the time to explore new tools, processes, or ideas.  In the report, tech professionals also cite difficulty identifying which ideas are worth pursuing, fear of wasting time on dead ends, and limited opportunities to experiment in their roles.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Impetus, Forrester Research & Amazon QuickSight for Exclusive Show on Unlocking the Power of GenBI on May 29

GenAI-based BI (commonly referred as GenBI) is rapidly emerging as the new standard to deliver actionable insights that can power superior decision-making while increasing effectiveness, responsiveness, and cost savings for organizations across industries. However, organizations must navigate a dynamic set of technologies and capabilities to ensure their GenBI solutions are quickly providing trusted business insights, operational excellence, while delivering bottom-line cost savings in parallel.

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Robert Eve: Why Can’t We Be Friends? AI Agent Collaboration in Data Engineering

Will we become the horse at the advent of the horseless carriage? Or the bookkeeper with the advent of financial software? Steve Jobs once said, “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” Today, perhaps Steve would amend his statement to say, “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people and agents.”

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Monica Kay Royal: AI Needs to be Supervised

In Kant’s moral theory, autonomy is a quality of rational agents that act and make choices based on their own reason. Merriam-Webster defines autonomy as the quality or state of being self-governing, self-directing freedom, and especially moral independence. When it comes to artificial intelligence, the definition gets a little foggy.

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NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Samir Sharma: Strategy Meets Autonomy: How to Align People, Data & Agents

It is true, that we have used ML which as you know is a subset of AI, but the most widely known and probably the most successful, perhaps. Many believe that AI (or ML in this instance) has shifted from making recommendations to making decisions. The big hype is that Agents are no longer support tools; they’re actors in your business.

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For consideration in future data science news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.

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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of April 25, 2025.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items.

For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review, join Insight Jam, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.

Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of April 25, 2025

AnswerRocket is Set to Acquire Cognitive Spark

AnswerRocket’s expanded capabilities address this challenge through agentic AI solutions that solve critical business problems and deliver actionable insights. Cognitive Spark’s expertise will enable AnswerRocket to create and deploy intelligent AI agents that automate complex data science routines for various use cases.

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Cube Unveils New Conversational AI Apps for Slack & Teams

Now, finance professionals can query and analyze financial and operational data using natural language—all without leaving the tools they already rely on. The chat-native apps extend Cube’s growing suite of AI-powered capabilities designed to accelerate how FP&A is transforming and eliminate the friction of traditional workflows.

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Databricks Announces April ’25 Updates to AI/BI

If you’re new to AI/BI, it’s a fully integrated suite of Business Intelligence capabilities within Databricks SQL that requires no additional licenses, so be sure to check it out today. AI/BI allows users to explore, analyze, and share insights effortlessly across the entire organization without managing licenses, data extracts or a shadow data warehouse.

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Microsoft Announces Mobile Optimized Report Layouts & More in April ’25 Power BI Feature Summary

There are a lot of exciting features this month, including mobile optimized report layouts, the best way to view data in the general availability of Power BI mobile apps, editing your semantic models with TMDL (Preview), and improved layouts for live editing semantic models.

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Ocient Closes $132 Million Series B Funding Round

Ocient recently launched its first named solution, the Data Retention and Disclosure System for telecommunications, which enables service providers to meet lawful disclosure requirements far below the mandated timeframes, and for significantly less cost and energy.

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Qlik Gains Momentum in AWS Cloud MidEast Region

With governments and enterprises rapidly scaling AI initiatives, the ability to control, process, and analyze data within national borders is a necessity. The new cloud region enables businesses across critical industries such as finance, healthcare, energy, and the public sector to operate with real-time intelligence, lower latency, and full regulatory confidence.

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Starburst Names New SVP of Engineering  Jitender Aswani

Aswani joins Starburst with a proven track record of engineering leadership at some of the world’s most innovative technology companies. Most recently, he was Vice President of Engineering at StarTree, where he led engineering strategy and execution for distributed, multi-cloud real-time analytics platforms. He also served as the acting Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), overseeing the company’s security strategy and operations.

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Tableau Introduces New Add-On for Google Workspace

Until now, organizations using Tableau and Google Workspace had to switch between different applications regularly. Exporting and updating visualizations significantly slowed down the work process. With this new integration, Tableau aims to end this inefficient way of working.

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ThoughtSpot Updates ‘AI Analyst’ Spotter

Any analysis starts off with a question—and before you even have your first question, Spotter gives you some places to start. Whether on your desktop or on your phone, Spotter provides a set of curated questions that help you get an understanding of your data.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might: Insight Jam Set to Host Skiilify’s Paula Caligiuri, PhD and Intelligent Automation Leader Doug Shannon on May 1

Join us for a special virtual event as we unveil the results of Skiilify’s newest study: AI Won’t Replace You—But Lack of Soft Skills Might. Based on insights from 217 tech professionals, the survey reveals a growing skills gap in resilience, curiosity, tolerance of ambiguity, and other core competencies that are critical for success in an AI-driven world.

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Solutions Review On-Location – What to Expect at Safe Software’s The Peak of Data and AI 2025 May 6-8

The Peak of Data and AI is the premier event for data and AI innovators, hosted by the creators of FME—the only All-Data, Any-AI Platform. Over three transformative days, you’ll explore the power of data integration and AI. From creating workflows to building AI agents, data integration and AI drive efficiency and deliver unprecedented insights.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Alteryx for Exclusive Show on How Fueling AI Starts With Your Data on May 21

In this webinar, we’ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake—no code required and full governance intact. You’ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months.

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NEW by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Samir Sharma: Why Most Data & AI ‘Best Practices’ Are Just Expensive Mistakes in Disguise

There is one thing I’ve often noticed about the phrase, is this, most of what’s touted as a best practice in the world of data and AI is nothing more than a well-dressed mistake. Even worse, it’s often someone else’s mistake, packaged, dressed up and marketed, sold to everyone as THE gospel.

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On-Demand: SR Expert @ Insight Jam Bob Eve Previews the Exclusive April 18 Jam Session: Is it Time to Rethink How we Connect Our Data & Apps?

Given the changing landscape and the opportunities new technologies and use cases afford, IT leaders must continuously evaluate and improve how their organizations connect their data and applications. To give you a head start on this initiative, we have brought together four experts on Friday, April 18, 2025, Insight Jam Session: Connections: Fun in the New York Times, Essential for Evolving Analytics and AI Apps.

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For consideration in future data science news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.

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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of April 18, 2025.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items.

For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review, join Insight Jam, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.

Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of April 18, 2025

AIS Unveils New SIMS Data Agent

With tip-of-the-spear technology, the SIMS Data Agent is designed to allow free-flowing conversations to engage end users with their data. This innovation marks a significant milestone for AIS, which is known for its commitment to innovating at the forefront of AI meets BI technology.

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Altair Partners with Databricks

This collaboration marks a milestone in advancing accessible, scalable, and impactful AI and machine learning solutions – paving the way for transformative innovation and enabling businesses to realize the full potential of their data for years to come.

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Bauplan Launches with $7.5 Million in Funding

Bauplan offers a serverless runtime that processes large datasets directly on object storage in pure Python. Developers can build powerful applications using simple serverless Python functions and familiar git-like concepts like branch, commit, and merge.

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Databricks Acquires Fennel

Integrating Fennel’s capabilities into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform will help customers quickly iterate on features, improve model performance with reliable signals and provide GenAI models with personalized and real-time context — all without the overhead and cost of managing complex infrastructures.

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Enterra Releases New EDERS Tool

EDERS is built on Enterra’s Autonomous Decision Science Platform, which enables organizations to autonomously analyze data, predict outcomes, and execute optimized decisions with high accuracy across complex business operations.

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Exaforce Raises $75 Million for Agentic AI SOC Operations

Founded by tech leaders with multiple successes and extensive expertise in AI and cybersecurity at companies such as Google, F5, and Palo Alto Networks, Exaforce has developed the industry’s first multi-model AI for solving challenges in security and operations.

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NowVertical Debuts DataCatalyst on Microsoft Azure

It enables seamless, secure, and real-time data movement, cutting time-to-value on data products by up to 50% and reducing integration costs by up to 30 percent, laying the essential groundwork for Generative AI, automation, and real-time analytics.

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Salesforce Unveils Tableau Next with AI Agents

Salesforce’s Tableau Next introduces a new approach to business intelligence, evolving its flagship analytics platform with agentic analytics to address this challenge. This innovative, AI-powered solution simplifies and accelerates data interaction, empowering organizations to uncover insights, automate visualizations, and drive impactful business outcomes.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might: Insight Jam Set to Host Skiilify’s Paula Caligiuri, PhD and Intelligent Automation Leader Doug Shannon on May 1

Join us for a special virtual event as we unveil the results of Skiilify’s newest study: AI Won’t Replace You—But Lack of Soft Skills Might. Based on insights from 217 tech professionals, the survey reveals a growing skills gap in resilience, curiosity, tolerance of ambiguity, and other core competencies that are critical for success in an AI-driven world.

Register free on LinkedIn

Solutions Review On-Location – What to Expect at Safe Software’s The Peak of Data and AI 2025 May 6-8

The Peak of Data and AI is the premier event for data and AI innovators, hosted by the creators of FME—the only All-Data, Any-AI Platform. Over three transformative days, you’ll explore the power of data integration and AI. From creating workflows to building AI agents, data integration and AI drive efficiency and deliver unprecedented insights.

Read on Solutions Review

Solutions Review Set to Host Alteryx for Exclusive Show on How Fueling AI Starts With Your Data on May 21

In this webinar, we’ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake—no code required and full governance intact. You’ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months.

Register free on LinkedIn

NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro Featuring Wayne Eckerson: In the Data Trenches

They discuss persistent data management challenges that organizations face, including finding data, accessing it, and ensuring its trustworthiness. Wayne emphasizes the critical importance of proper data governance, the need for both centralized and distributed data architectures, and how AI will transform data management without replacing human decision-making.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Bob Eve Previews the Exclusive April 18 Jam Session: Is it Time to Rethink How we Connect Our Data & Apps?

Given the changing landscape and the opportunities new technologies and use cases afford, IT leaders must continuously evaluate and improve how their organizations connect their data and applications. To give you a head start on this initiative, we have brought together four experts on Friday, April 18, 2025, Insight Jam Session: Connections: Fun in the New York Times, Essential for Evolving Analytics and AI Apps.

Read on Solutions Review

SR Expert @ Insight Jam Monica Kay Royal Writes: Why AI is Not Taking Your Job

As an auditor, I know that you have to double and triple check processes to ensure that they are working appropriately, to the standards that have been established, and are compliant with applicable regulations. That means a human always needs to be present to verify all of this. Let’s talk about the concept of Human in the Loop.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Dr. Joe Perez Reports on Snapping into Unexpected Insights

You heard that right. A shrimp, a 50 mm-long marine creature, is helping scientists work toward the holy grail of energy generation. It’s a story as strange as it is inspiring, and it perfectly illustrates the power of finding unexpected connections, whether you’re designing a fusion reactor or analyzing a dataset.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Samir Sharma Writes: Start with the Use Case or Don’t Start at All

I know you have heard it all before and it’s a familiar story that you read in yearly reports or you might have been privy in boardrooms. What I am alluding to are the grand declarations about becoming “data-driven,” which is typically followed by ambitious investments in platforms, talent, and large elongated transformation programs.

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For consideration in future data science news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.

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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of April 11, 2025.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items.

For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review, join Insight Jam, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.

Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of April 11, 2025

AI One Launches Out of Stealth

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DataChat Secures Google Cloud Ready Designation

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Databricks Brings Meta Llama 4 to Data Intelligence Platform

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Envoy Launches Rebuilt Actionable Analytics Experience

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Google BigQuery and Looker BI Set for Agentic AI Makeover

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Microsoft Updates Power BI Embedded Analytics Accelerator Program

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Plotly Announces New Dash Enterprise Version 5.7

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Qrvey Unveils New Embedded BI Services

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ThoughtSpot Upgrades Learning Experience in ThoughtSpot University

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might: Insight Jam Set to Host Skiilify’s Paula Caligiuri, PhD and Intelligent Automation Leader Doug Shannon on May 21

Join us for a special virtual event as we unveil the results of Skiilify’s newest study: AI Won’t Replace You—But Lack of Soft Skills Might. Based on insights from 217 tech professionals, the survey reveals a growing skills gap in resilience, curiosity, tolerance of ambiguity, and other core competencies that are critical for success in an AI-driven world.

Register free on LinkedIn

Solutions Review Set to Host Alteryx for Exclusive Show on How Fueling AI Starts With Your Data on May 21

In this webinar, we’ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake—no code required and full governance intact. You’ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months.

Register free on LinkedIn

SR Expert @ Insight Jam Monica Kay Royal Writes: AI is More Than ChatGPT

While in some cases it’s fine to use general terms, I think it’s important that we are specific when talking about AI because there are many different types of AI solutions which are based on differing capabilities and functionalities.  These differences matter, especially when you are new to the topic or trying to solve a very specific problem.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Nicola Askham Asks: Should the Data Governance Manager be Responsible for MDM Implementation?

When you become known as the Data Governance manager or lead in your company, people might start thinking you’re responsible for everything related to data. But that’s not really the case. So, when a company needs to choose a master data management (MDM) tool, should the Data Governance manager be in charge? Or is there a better way?

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Samir Sharma Writes: How Your Competitors Are Using Data to Crush You and How You Can Fight Back

In 1997 I wrote my thesis on “The Application of Information Warfare to Business Strategy & Planning.” A large part of it was based on my understanding of how information (and this means data too), could and will be used as a weapon in the future. I even applied the teachings on Sun Tzu to the equation and a bunch of business strategy frameworks from Porter, Kotler and others. It was only this morning that I was thinking about it again and how it applies to the world of business we live in now.

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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King Lists the 28 Best AI Agents for Data Engineering for 2025

In this up-to-date and authoritative guide, we break down the top AI agents and agent platforms available today for data engineering, grouped into clear categories to help you find the right tool for your specific needs — whether you’re building real-time ETL pipelines, managing complex data ecosystems, or embedding AI into your operational workflows.

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On-Demand! Insight Jam Hosted Cher Fox for the Jam Session: Data Trust Decoded: Moving Beyond Compliance

Great news! We’ve added a second Jam Session each month. Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for an informal and informative chat around transparency, accountability, and ethical practices in the world of data governance.

Watch on YouTube

For consideration in future data science news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.

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Solutions Review’s Spotlight with Alteryx is an hour-long discussion and software demo focusing on how fueling AI starts with your data.

What is a Solutions Spotlight?

Solutions Review’s Spotlights are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these kinds of events.

Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, best practices or case study webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers across enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year, over 10 million people come to Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

With the next Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with analytics provider Alteryx.

In this webinar, we’ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake—no code required and full governance intact. You’ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months. Whether you’re just getting started with AI or looking to move faster, this session will help you bridge the gap between your data and your outcomes.

Join Alteryx experts to learn how the Alteryx AI Platform for Enterprise Analytics offers integrated generative and conversational AI, data preparation, advanced analytics, and automated reporting capabilities.

Speakers

• Hannah Erlsten, Senior AI Product Marketing Manager

About Alteryx

The Alteryx AI Platform for Enterprise Analytics is a comprehensive, unified solution designed to empower organizations with automated data preparation, AI-driven analytics, and accessible machine learning capabilities. Powered by AiDIN, Alteryx’s AI engine, the platform integrates generative and conversational AI to facilitate rapid insights and streamlined decision-making. It offers a self-service, intuitive user experience, enabling users across various skill levels to create analytic solutions that enhance productivity and efficiency.

FAQ

• What: Fueling AI Starts with Your Data
• When: Wednesday, May 21, 2024 at 12:00pm Eastern Time
• Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more details)

Register for Solutions Review’s Spotlight with Alteryx FREE

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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of April 4, 2025.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items.

For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review, join Insight Jam, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.

Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of April 4, 2025

Databricks Announces the Availability of New Lakeflow Connect

Lakeflow Connect’s managed data connectors are powered by serverless compute and are available across AWS, Azure and GCP. They are fully integrated with the Data Intelligence Platform for governance, observability and enterprise security.

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Alteryx Names Ben Canning New Chief of Product

Canning most recently served as Senior Vice President of Product Experiences at Smartsheet. During his tenure, he led Smartsheet’s evolution in the areas of product management, research, and UX design. Prior to Smartsheet, Canning spent 22 years at Microsoft in various product leadership roles, including Head of Product for Microsoft Teams.

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Lovelytics Merges with Nousot to Lead Databricks Consulting Market

Following Lovelytics’ recent acquisition of Datalytics, this merger creates a 500-person elite Databricks consulting firm, uniquely positioned to support large enterprises on their most complex and ambitious data and AI initiatives.

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Microsoft Announces New Data Point Annotations, in Preview, for Power BI

Annotations enable users to add descriptive text directly to visualizations, offering contextual explanations or highlights that improve communication and understanding of the data being presented. This feature transforms data storytelling by allowing users to communicate insights with greater efficacy and enhance the engagement and informativeness of presentations.

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Sourcetable Secures $4.3 Million for Automated Spreadsheet Tool

This seed funding round was led by Bee Partners with participation from Julien Chaumond (Hugging Face co-founder), Preston-Werner Ventures (GitHub co-founder), Roger Bamford (Distinguished Architect at MongoDB), and James Beshara (Magic Mind co-founder).

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Tellius Introduces AI Agents

Tellius AI Agents and Agentic Flows are a powerful new way to automate answering—and acting upon—tough business questions through intelligent, task-driven AI Agents that analyze data, generate insights, and drive your decisions forward all in natural language.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

April 4! Insight Jam is Getting Set to Host Cher Fox for the Jam Session: Data Trust Decoded: Moving Beyond Compliance

Great news! We’re adding a second Jam Session each month! Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for an informal and informative chat around transparency, accountability, and ethical practices in the world of data governance.

Register to watch free on Insight Jam

NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro: The Intersection of BI & AI Featuring Andrew Brust

They discuss how these technologies complement each other rather than compete, with BI providing the structured data foundation and governance that AI needs to deliver accurate insights. The conversation explores the importance of metadata, semantic layers, and integrated platforms that can handle both structured and unstructured data to drive successful AI implementations.

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New on Solutions Review Thought Leader by Dr. Joe Perez: Finding Gold in the Glitches

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ICYMI: Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King Lists the 28 Best AI Agents for Data Analysis for 2025

In this up-to-date and authoritative guide, we break down the top AI agents and agent platforms available today for data analysis, grouped into clear categories to help you find the right tool for your specific needs — whether you’re a data scientist building custom pipelines, a business analyst looking for quick insights, or a C-suite leader planning enterprise-scale AI adoption.

Read on Insight Jam

For consideration in future data science news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.

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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of March 28, 2025.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items.

For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review, join Insight Jam, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.

Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of March 28, 2025

5000fish Unveils Yurbi 12 White Label Analytics

Designed specifically for software vendors and SaaS providers, Yurbi Version 12 empowers organizations to seamlessly integrate dashboards, reports, and self-service analytics into their applications. It eliminates the high costs, excessive complexity, or security vulnerabilities often associated with traditional BI tools.

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AWS Adds AI Agents to QuickSight BI Platform

The new offering opens up the opportunity to make every user an analyst who can dive deeply into data and go hands-on with spreadsheets and datasets. This capability was originally demonstrated during re:Invent last year in preview and is now generally available.

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Databricks Brings Anthropic Claude Models to its Data Intelligence Platform

Combined with Databricks Mosaic AI, the landmark deal brings Anthropic’s world-class Claude models directly to over 10,000 companies, alongside their business-critical, proprietary data. Anthropic’s newest frontier model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet — the first hybrid reasoning model on the market and the industry leader for coding — is now available via Databricks on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

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Firebolt Unveils New FireScale Benchmark for AI Analytic Workloads

Firebolt ran the FireScale benchmark on Firebolt as well as other cloud data warehouses (CDWs) such as Snowflake, Redshift and BigQuery. The results prove Firebolt to be a clear leader in CDWs in delivering low latency, high concurrency and the best price-performance for data-intensive AI applications.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

April 4! Insight Jam is Getting Set to Host Cher Fox for the Jam Session: Data Trust Decoded: Moving Beyond Compliance

Great news! We’re adding a second Jam Session each month! Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for an informal and informative chat around transparency, accountability, and ethical practices in the world of data governance.

Register to watch free on Insight Jam

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King Lists the 28 Best AI Agents for Data Analysis for 2025

In this up-to-date and authoritative guide, we break down the top AI agents and agent platforms available today for data analysis, grouped into clear categories to help you find the right tool for your specific needs — whether you’re a data scientist building custom pipelines, a business analyst looking for quick insights, or a C-suite leader planning enterprise-scale AI adoption.

Read on Insight Jam

On-Demand! Insight Jam Hosted Robert Eve, Dr. Irina Steenbeek & David Sweenor for the Jam Session: Mind the Gap: Where Traditional Data & Analytics Governance Fails AI

In this month’s Jam Session, our expert panel address these critical AI governance questions: What’s unique or different about governing AI? Where does AI require additional governance capabilities beyond traditional data and analytics governance? What are the benefits of AI governance? What are the risks? How can organizations best fill their AI governance gap? Where is the best place to start?

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For consideration in future data science news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.

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